Oscar Gómez Barbero (born June 28, 1961, in Bilbao, Spain) is the Corporate Director of Information Systems at RENFE, the Spanish state railways. He has been charged with the implementation of a €156 million four-year ICT (information and communication technology) modernization process to conclude in 2010.
Previously Gomez Barbero was a partner at PwC-IBM and a general manager of the Basque publicly owned railway corporation Eusko Trenbideak – Ferrocarriles Vascos. He is a graduate of the Jesuit University of Deusto and holds an MBA from the same institution.
He is married and has three children.
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