Ruben Gomez
Founder & CEO — now Chief Product Officer & Board Member of Lokotech Group AS (listed, Euronext Growth Oslo)
Profile
Background and focus.
I am a founder and CEO who built a company from the ground up and led it through acquisition by a publicly listed group. As founder and CEO of PowerPool Mining SL, I held full P&L ownership and ran every function of the business — strategy, finance, operations, technology and commercial. In 2024 the company was acquired by Lokotech Group AS, a publicly listed Norwegian company on Euronext Growth Oslo, which took a majority stake. I retained a significant equity stake, continued as CEO of PowerPool, and joined the Lokotech board, where I serve as Chief Product Officer and board member.
This executive track record is underpinned by deep technical and quantitative foundations. A background in applied mathematics and engineering, together with first-hand command of the systems at the core of the digital-asset economy — mining pools, ASIC hardware, blockchain protocols and trading systems — lets me lead cross-functional teams and set board-level strategy with a direct understanding of the technology the business runs on.
I work in Spanish, English, Italian and Catalan, including written technical and board-level reports, and operate comfortably across international, multi-language settings.
Areas of Expertise
Where I lead, and the technical domains that support it.
01
Executive Leadership & General Management
Full P&L ownership and end-to-end responsibility for every function of a company — strategy, finance, operations, technology and commercial. Leading cross-functional teams, setting board-level strategy as a director of a publicly listed group, and taking a business from founding through acquisition and integration.
02
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Systems
Bitcoin, Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, wallet custody (hot/cold/multi-sig), transaction tracing, address attribution, smart-contract behaviour, token issuance and DeFi mechanics. Comfortable working at protocol level as well as application level.
03
Crypto-Mining Operations & Hardware
Mining-pool architecture, hashrate accounting, payout schemes (PPS, PPLNS, FPPS), stratum protocols, ASIC firmware and performance, electrical and thermal design, and the economics of large-scale mining. Built from the inside as both an operator and a hardware architect.
04
Algorithmic Trading & Markets
Self-taught and experimental in the early years from 2022, developing into substantive high-frequency and arbitrage strategies across cryptocurrency exchanges and computational-power markets. Statistical analysis of order books, execution patterns and microstructure, built and operated in production rather than studied academically.
05
Mathematical & Quantitative Analysis
Applied mathematics, statistics and computational modelling. Probabilistic reconstruction of events from incomplete records, simulation, regression and predictive modelling. Trained to state assumptions explicitly and quantify uncertainty.
Professional Experience
Operating roles across crypto-mining, blockchain and algorithmic markets.
2022 – PRESENT
PowerPool Mining SL
Founder & CEO
Madrid, Spain
Founded and built a high-performance cryptocurrency mining business, holding full P&L ownership and running every function of the company — strategy, finance, operations, technology and commercial. The company reached approximately $20M in annual gross revenue. In 2024 it was acquired by Lokotech Group AS, a publicly listed Norwegian company on Euronext Growth Oslo, which took a majority stake; I retained a significant equity stake, continued as CEO, and joined the Lokotech board. PowerPool now operates as a Lokotech group company.
2023 – PRESENT
Lokotech Group AS
Chief Product Officer & Board Member
Oslo, Norway
Chief Product Officer and board member of Lokotech Group AS, a publicly listed Norwegian company on Euronext Growth Oslo and the group that acquired PowerPool in 2024. Own product strategy and roadmap for the group's ASIC, designed for both Scrypt mining and AI inference and training and currently at tape-out stage, underpinned by in-house design of the ASIC and the overall system architecture — the chip itself together with power delivery, thermal management, board design and controlling firmware — as the technical foundation beneath the product.
2020 – 2022
5 Digital Street
Full-Stack & Hardware Engineer
Madrid, Spain
MiButano — IoT hardware interfaces and cloud back-ends for remote management of connected devices. Firmware and control-layer work bridging embedded systems and web platforms.
2020 – 2021
5 Digital Street
Blockchain Project Lead
Madrid, Spain
Led a blockchain project for the automotive renting and leasing sector to certify COVID-19 regulatory compliance and to maintain a stolen-vehicle / anti-theft document registry. Early experience taking blockchain technology from requirement to a deployed, production system.
Education
Academic background.
2019 – 2023
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
BSc in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science
Leganés, Spain
Joint degree combining applied mathematics with computer science. Coursework spanning real and numerical analysis, probability and statistics, optimisation, algorithms and software engineering.
2017 – 2019
American School of Madrid
International Baccalaureate (37/45)
Pozuelo, Spain
Triple qualification: Spanish EVAU, US High School Diploma and the IB Diploma. Bilingual academic environment that established my fluency in English alongside Spanish.
2013 – 2017
International School of Monza
Secondary School (English-medium)
Monza, Italy
Four years of secondary education in an international, English-medium environment. Source of my working fluency in Italian and of an early international, multi-language outlook.