AIA - Key Persons


Antoni Trias Bonet

Job Titles:
  • Founder and R & D and CTO Vicepresident
Antoni got his PhD in Physics in 1974 from Universidad de Barcelona. Later had a Post-Doctoral research fellow stay (1974 -1976) at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at the University of California, taught Theoretical Physics at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas until 1985. Tenured lecturer at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1986. Author of more than 50 research papers and directed many masters and PhDs

Regina Llopis Rivas - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • President
Grupo AIA Who we are Regina Llopis Rivas Regina Llopis holds a BS degree in Mathematics with high honors from the University of Maryland, then pursued a MS degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics to Artificial Intelligence, both degrees from the University of California in Berkeley. Additionally, she completed a Senior Management Program from IESE Business School in Barcelona. Her long teaching career involved teaching at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Universidad Simón Bolívar de Caracas, visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, at the Research Center in IBM, IBM-UAM and visiting professor during a short stay at the Universidad Católica in Chile. She has led multidisciplinary teams for international projects in software engineering for industrial monitoring among other things. She was member and director of the Parque Científico Universidad in Barcelona in 1998 and 1999 Is board member of the portfolio companies she has designed and created: Gridquant, Inc. (U.S.A.) since 2012, EleQuant, Inc. (U.S.A.) since 2001, MAIA (México) since 2004, AIA and R&R Music Limited. Has created and maintained permanent business relations with some of the leading banking, energy and telecommunication companies in Spain. Began export services in the energy. sector with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, California with 20 million customers, with Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the owner and operator of Mexico´s electric network, one of the biggest in the world which provides electricity to over 100 million people. Regina is leading with her team the the company´s market global expansion. Regina holds a BS degree in Mathematics with high honors from the University of Maryland, then pursued a MS degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics to Artificial Intelligence, both degrees from the University of California in Berkeley. Additionally, she completed a Senior Management Program from IESE Business School in Barcelona.