COIT and AEIT name Cayetano Carbajo, CTO of Telefónica Germany, 'Engineer of the Year'

Carbajo is a Telecommunications engineer with a long career in the Telefónica group, which he joined in 1995 as a radio engineer.

The Official College of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) and the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers (AEIT) have designated Cayetano Carbajo, CTO at Telefónica Germany, 'Engineer of the Year 2015'. The announcement of the recognition took place during the celebration of the festival of San Gabriel, patron saint of telecommunications, held this Tuesday at the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid.

During the event, Eugenio Fontán Oñate, Dean-President of the COIT and President of the AEIT, highlighted that "Cayetano Carbajo is an exceptional engineer, responsible for many years of the Telefónica Group's network technology and who is currently taking on the challenge of merging the operator's networks in Germany (O2 and E-plus), a country in which the operator is the leader in the mobile market." According to Fontán, "there are many Spanish engineers directing projects of exceptional importance outside our borders. Their work is not always sufficiently valued. With this designation we want to make visible the extraordinary contribution of so many professionals to the prestige of our country abroad."

Cayetano Carbajo is a Telecommunications engineer with a long career in the Telefónica group, which he joined in 1995 as a radio engineer for Telefónica Móviles. From there he has held all types of responsibilities, addressing technical and management issues, in Spain and in countries as different as Morocco or Mexico. From 2006 to 2014 he was director of technology at Telefónica, and from that date on, CTO of Telefónica in Germany and, therefore, responsible for the operator's network deployment (O2).

The award ceremony will take place during a tribute dinner to be held on November 26, at the Madrid Casino.

El premio “Ingeniero del Año”, creado por el COIT y la AEIT en 1982, tiene como objetivo reconocer anualmente la trayectoria personal y profesional del ingeniero premiado. El Jurado está compuesto por los miembros de las Juntas de ambas instituciones. Han sido reconocidos con este premio en ediciones anteriores personalidades como Carlos Espinós, Pedro Jurado, Alberto Rodríguez Raposo, Reinaldo Rodríguez, Bernardo Lorenzo, Antonio Luque, Francisco Ros, Mateo Valero, Francisco Román, Julio Linares, Luis Álvarez Satorre, Emma Fernández, Rafael Gallego, Miguel Ángel Panduro o Jaime Caruana.