John Carbajal

Co-founder at Kantox, disrupting the financial industry

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

About

Bringing light in the foreign exchange market. We believe that it is time to change the finance industry to instil the virtues of transparency, efficiency and fairness. This is what drives us at Kantox. We are convinced that such change is not just inevitable, but that it will have a profoundly positive effect on the global finance industry and economy. Technological innovation is and will continue to be the vehicle for this change. Our goal is to instigate such change through leading the Fintech sector (financial services built on technological advances) in innovative solutions, ultimately driving development in the wider finance industry.

Experience

  • Kantox (15 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Advisor to the CEO
      May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    • Chief Technology Officer and Founding Partner
      Mar 2011 - May 2026 · 15 yrs 3 mos

      Kantox is a multinational Fintech company offering FX management solutions. Our expertise and products allow our customers to manage their currency exposure, build hedging strategies, automate FX transactions and process international payments in a smart way. We generate significant savings, efficiency and productivity with full transparency. Our 1.800 clients have already exchanged close to 3 billion US Dollars in 20 countries. Kantox is headquartered in London and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (Nr. FRN 580343) My role: Design, implementation and management of the development of our FX solutions platform. Skill set: FX algorithms, concurrent programming, real time data feed processing, distributed systems architecture and designing high availability software solution architectures.

  • Founder at Fotocodex
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2012 · 7 yrs 1 mo

    Founder of Fotocodex, a Web 2.0 self publishing service directed towards communities with valuable digital content and passionate reasons to sculpt it into something tangible and coherent.

  • Technology consultant/software engineer at HP
    Mar 2000 - Mar 2004 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Team lead focusing on developing innovative solutions around HP's line of large format inkjet printers. Primary focus was targeted towards professional photography and the fine arts.

  • Sr. software engineer at Intel
    1993 - 1998 · 5 yrs

    Technical consultant reporting to new markets business development group responsible for evaluating the technology portfolios of startup companies with the interest of making possible investments in them. Team lead/Innovator reporting to the engineering group within Intel Intenet Labs focused around planting Intel firmly in the on-line digital music space. Software & hardware architect for advanced technologies. Member of the Intel Research Council.

  • Vice President of engineering at Digital Vision, Inc
    Mar 1984 - May 1992 · 8 yrs 3 mos

    Responsible for development and continued support of complex manufacturing control solution. Work flow evangelist interfacing to equipment providers, clients and the press