About

Tuenti, widely known as the “Spanish Facebook”, is a leading Spanish technology company that integrates telecommunications and social communication services with its own app to provide a multi-platform cloud experience to their clients. Leading all legal, regulatory and public affairs Óscar Casado Oliva is at the cutting edge of a new area in a state of flux. A highly experienced professional in telecommunications, he worked for six years in different tech companies before joining Tuenti in 2011. Having worked in competitive and fast-moving environments where the legal framework develops alongside the industry, he is constantly faced with the challenges of the digital economy and disruptive technologies. ‘I have come to learn that you must think like an entrepreneur, as if you were the owner of the company. You have to get involved emotionally and provide legal advice and your experience in innovative environments to help grow the start-up, foreseeing their needs and solving problems’. Casado Oliva has supported some of the company’s most strategic deals. He led the legal management of Tuenti’s international expansion and he was in charge of the legal, regulatory and public affairs for the transformation of the company’s business model from a social network to a model that joins telecommunication and internet services through a mobile and social application in the cloud. ‘We reinvented a “start-up” and became a digital mobile operator based on innovation and technology as differentiating elements, creating a unique and pioneering global product that we are exporting to other countries. That meant, among other things, shifting from an unregulated environment to a regulated sector, having to change the corporate legal structure to meet the challenges underlying this strategic decision worldwide’. Apart from his role in Tuenti, Casado Oliva gives lectures at ESADE Business Schools, he has co-authored many articles and books and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences related to innovation and digital business.