OPPORTUNITY SEEKER
Now that we’ve piqued your interest, let’s meet the man who has driven this welcome innovation. Enter Javier Chamorro, cofounder and executive president of Centum. He was encouraged to pursue opportunities by his parents as he grew up in northwest Spain in the Principality of Asturias. “My parents wanted my sister and me to study because they didn’t have the chance to earn college degrees. They worked to give us opportunities they never had.” Chamorro’s parents made the big jump from the end of the right-wing Franco dictatorship in 1975 to modern, democratic Spain. Chamorro (and his sister) made the leap with them. He earned degrees at the University of Oviedo in industrial engineering and electronics. After graduation, he left his home province to earn a graduate engineering degree in telecommunications at the University of Vigo in Pontevedra.
In 2000 with degrees in hand, he got a big- data analyst job at a telecommunications company to analyze how its customers behaved. “I loved it,” he says. “It forced me to focus more on the business and its customers rather than on strictly technical stuff. I would imagine myself in the owner’s shoes to see the business from an owner’s perspective.” After three years of doing that data work, Chamorro joined a multinational corporation to gain business development experience and learn more about customers. “I thought if I didn’t like business development, I’d go back to a more technical direction — but I liked it!”
CENTUM BEGINS
That work put Chamorro on his path to become an entrepreneur business owner. Two years into being a business analyst, he met his current business partner, Igor Amantegui, and they cofounded Centum in 2005 with the original concept to develop an aerospace and telecommunications company. For their first five years Centum was a consultant company, but in 2010 they made the very fateful decision to intentionally innovate and transition from a services company into one that creates products. At first, they came up with a lot of ideas and then narrowed them down to two top candidates: one option was to develop a drone and the other finalist was to
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