Javier Sesma

About

Javier Sesma is Senior Vice President of Business Development globally at TK Elevator where he is responsible to support the growth and business expansion of TKE business with global Key Accounts, major projects, and strategic partnerships. He has more than 30 years of experience on Business Development, innovation and internationalization with international assignments in USA, UK and Germany.

During 14 years has led the global team at TK Elevator Innovation Center, which has contributed significantly to the success and Global product launch of some of TKEs innovative technologies, like iwalk, ACCEL, MULTI, Automatic Docking Assistance (ADA) for Airport Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs), MAX IoT cloud platform or HoloLinc among others. Generating more than 80 patents worldwide and contributing significantly to position TK Elevator within the innovation leaders in urban mobility and digitalization.

During his ternure has served in various public and academic advisory boards such is COTEC foundation for Innovation (chaired by his majesty Felipe VI), Innovation in Spain Foundation (Founder Board member), stablihsed TKE,s Chair in Mobility at University of Oviedo, or Association of Spanish Executives amongst others

Sesma holds MSc on Construction engineering, Master of Advanced studies on Business administration and PostDoc studies by ESMT Berlin and IE business Shool. Is co-inventor of +10 patents on vertical and horizontal transportation technologies, frequent speaker on international conferences, akademia and industry associations.