
Guillermo Prieto
AI ex-founder, ex-BCG, Aerospace engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Advisor & CTO Coach
NTEASERFreelance
Jul 2026 - Present
4 months
Madrid, Spain
Cofounder & CPTO
UPTAIL
May 2024 - Jun 2026
2 years 2 months
Madrid, Spain
– Built a conversational AI system handling 1M+ messages per month, with a proprietary AI harness, immediate escalation to human agents, automated failure-mode detection, and a custom evaluation framework. – Reported results included conversion rate increases of up to 30 percentage points and reductions of up to 70% in sales customer acquisition cost (CAC). – Hired and managed a four-person FDE / engineering team, adopting new AI coding tools as they became available, from coding agents to development workflows combining multiple autonomous agents across all SDLC. – Raised seven-figure funding ($) from venture capital investors and business angels and reached six-figure annual recurring revenue (ARR, $), serving midsize and large B2C companies across sectors with high customer lifetime value.
Cofounder
FUSE AI
Mar 2023 - May 2024
1 year 3 months
London, UK
– Built a personalized AI tutor with state-of-the art LLM models tailored to teachers' curriculum and tested with 100+ students in 2 paid pilots with private schools – Built a custom conversational analytics pipeline with a state-of-the-art speech-to-text model to work in a high-noise, multiple speakers scenario with unsafe sentences detection
Data Product Owner
ETEXFreelance
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
4 months
Remote
– Identified opportunities to improve supply and operations planning in Latin America – Worked with local teams to define and scope data initiatives addressing those opportunities
Cofounder & CEO
SPACIFIC.AI
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
9 months
London, UK
– Developed a minimum viable product (MVP) to assess vegetation risks to electrical power lines across 100 km² – Pitched more than 30 investors during a fundraising campaign
Senior Data Sciencist & PMO Consultant
AIR LIQUIDEFreelance
May 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 6 months
Remote
– Contributed to the design, implementation, and rollout coordination (PMO) of a custom, data-driven B2B pricing engine integrated with Salesforce, deployed in 15+ countries and covering more than €1B in annual revenue – Conducted an in-depth analysis of reverse supply chain management practices and tools (SOP) – Led user research interviews across all levels of the sales organization to identify users' pain points
Cofounder & Lead Data Scientist
HINSIGHT ANALYTICS
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
1 year 6 months
Madrid, Spain
– Delivered data analytics and AI projects in logistics, energy, and e-commerce – Ran customer workshops across different industries to define project ambition, breadth, and scope of work
Managing Partner & Lead Consultant
GREENEA
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
1 year 4 months
Paris, France
– Secured biofuels market consulting engagements with major industry players, including Shell, Cargill, and SHV – Analyzed and modeled the impact of regulatory frameworks, including RED II, on supply and demand – Developed biofuel price forecasting models for trading desks and brokers
Lead AI Research Scientist
SKOLTECH
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
6 months
Moscow, Russia
– Led the scientific aspects of the project, including data acquisition and labeling, infrastructure, and methodology – Applied deep learning (U-Net) on hyperspectral satellite and drone imagery for tree counting
Strategy Consultant & Data Scientist
THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
6 months
Casablanca, Morocco
– Worked with leading North African companies in banking, transportation, tourism, and logistics – Supported strategy projects through data science modeling, optimization, and visualization
Data Science Consultant
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
6 months
Paris, France
– Optimized and automated Disney's DVD and Blu-ray purchasing system for European distribution – Delivered €100K+ in recurring annual cost savings through improved inventory and order management
Education
ISAE-SUPAERO
MS Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence
2017 - 2018
1 year 1 month
– Curriculum: machine/deep/reinforcement learning, advanced statistics, big data and optimization Projects: – AirFrance 2018 Machine Learning Hackaton - A380 predictive maintenance (1st place) – AI for autonomous vehicles - AI-based optimal control for fast trajectory generation – FlappyBird AI player - self-learning AI for an infinite-runner mobile game
ISAE-SUPAERO
MS Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
2014 - 2016
2 years 1 month
– Curriculum: advanced mathematics and physics, aeronautics and space engineering, project management – Intensive Business Administration course (DESIA): corporate finance & strategy, B2B & international marketing – SUPAERO Micro-drones: Project Manager (Sep 2014 - Jun 2016) . Recruited and managed a team of 50 people, secured 20k EUR in sponsoring from corp. . 2nd place in the 2016 International Micro Aerial Vehicle competition (IMAV Beijing)
University of La Sorbonne
BS Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
2011 - 2014
3 years 1 month
– Erasmus scholarship at TU Delft (Netherlands), Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (2013-2014) – Projects: Designed and built an underwater remotely operated robot (ROV)
Licenses & certifications
Foundations of Business Strategy by Michael Lenox
Issued: Jan 2016
Successful Negociation by George Siedel
Issued: Jan 2016
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng
Issued: Jan 2016