Ernesto Cohnen is SVP AI Products at ixigo (Le Travenues Technology), where he leads AI Efficiency, AI Revenue, and AI Disruption across one of India’s largest travel platforms — covering flights, hotels, trains, and buses. He is also co-founder of Squad as a Service (SqaaS), a Spanish AI startup building agent infrastructure for Europe’s next wave of AI-native products, including ShellBot (managed agent hosting) and the OpenClaw ecosystem. ixigo holds a strategic investment in SqaaS.

Based in Dubai with deep roots in the Spanish startup ecosystem, Ernesto operates as executive and builder in equal measure — shipping production code alongside running distributed teams across Spain, India, and the UAE. His current obsessions: CLI-first agent architectures, voice-first travel assistants, and what defensible AI products look like when the foundation model is a commodity.