Practitioners who teach part-time.
Our faculty hold live responsibilities in technology, data and operations organisations, and teach one evening a week. Associate Faculty are practitioner-instructors; they are not full-time academics, and we make no such claim.
David Martín de la Monja
Chief Technology & Data Officer of PortAventura World, the largest theme-park and hospitality resort in southern Europe (3 parks, 10 hotels, retail, F&B and ticketing; ~5M visitors/year). Previously CTO of AWWG (Pepe Jeans, Hackett, Faconnable), running cloud-native retail systems handling millions of daily events across 50+ countries, and in service-delivery leadership at Indra and T-Systems Iberia. Teaches the operations track: applying AI and GenAI inside always-on consumer-facing environments. Full profile →
Elena Zammit
Twenty years in banking operations and payments in Valletta, latter years as head of data and automation at a retail-banking group, where she ran forecasting and document-processing systems through three platform migrations. Teaches orchestration and integration modules.
Alistair Fenwick
Infrastructure lead for a UK communications operator; responsible for the change process behind several thousand production releases a year. Teaches deployment, reliability, cost control and incident response for AI services.
Maria Christina Vella
Former chief operating officer of a Mediterranean hospitality group; led post-incident governance reform and frontline digital adoption across 4,000 employees. Teaches governance, audit and organisational-change modules.
Tomás Ferreira
Platform architect for a Lisbon-based software company serving public-sector clients; builds event-driven data estates on AWS. Teaches the analytics track: pipelines, evaluation and monitoring.
Nadia Hann
Leads a computer-vision practice applied to retail and venue analytics; previously in a Mallorcan engineering bureau. Teaches the Valletta residency lab on vision systems in live environments.
Faculty listings state current and prior organisational roles as held. MIAAI does not ascribe academic ranks (Professor, Dr.) unless separately verified; where used, "Associate Faculty" denotes a part-time practitioner instructor.