Xelios Biometrics is a technology company specialized in the development, marketing, and integration of advanced biometrics security solutions with decades of experience and which, since 2018, has been based in Lanzarote.
Marcos Gómez-Acebo, its CEO, was born in San Sebastián, grew up in Madrid, studied at the French lycée, and has lived in many places on the planet until settling in Lanzarote, which is why he considers himself a "citizen of the world".
The CEO of Xelios Biometrics, a lawyer by profession, specializing in industrial property, explains that he bought the company 23 years ago from the French business group Sagem, a technology company, especially military, which currently belongs to the American national security group Idemia.
Xelios Biometrics has accompanied Gómez-Acebo wherever he has lived with his family, for example, it was registered in New York between 2012 and 2017 and since 2018, upon moving to the island, it became a Lanzarote-based company, which benefits from the tax regime of the Canary Special Zone (ZEC).
“I fell in love with Lanzarote, when we arrived I said this is where we have to be,” explains the owner of Xelios Biometrics.
“We are a biotechnology company, we do biometrics. We started with fingerprints to access all the football stadiums in Argentina, also that of Real Madrid which is still with us”.
With the move to Lanzarote, they launched a new technological solution for banks. Facial identification. “It's called ID proofing, meaning your mobile phone recognizes your face and allows you to carry out banking or commercial operations.” Among its clients is an ATM network made up of 46 banks in Argentina.
“Now we are with a magnificent project, the single medical record, we have it in two hospitals in Madrid,” shares the CEO of Xelios Biometrics.
If it were implemented in the Canary Islands, explains Gómez-Acebo, any hospital in the archipelago "would have access to your medical record with your fingerprint immediately, which would save a lot of money" by providing quick and effective treatments anywhere in the territory.
When asked what distinguishes his company from others in the sector, the CEO of Xelios Biometrics highlights: “one advantage is that our products are manufactured in Europe, they cannot be manufactured in China or India because the algorithms we use are military”.
The team of Xelios Biometrics is composed of about 30 people. “We have five people in Lanzarote who handle central administration and the rest are engineers in Argentina, where we have the big clients”.
Gómez-Acebo confirms that they will hire more profiles in Lanzarote if they start having business in the islands as well.
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