Javier Celaya, founder of Dosdoce.com.

Javier has spent over 20 years trying to understand the digital era we are living in. In March 2004, he launched Dosdoce.com with the aim of helping professionals in the creative and cultural industries sector (publishers, streaming platforms, bookstores, libraries, museums, foundations, among others) transform their organizations to grow their businesses by leveraging the benefits of the Internet.

Over the past decade, Javier has been responsible for launching several international digital platforms in Spanish-language markets (Spain and Latin America). For six years, he advised Bookwire, the leading eBook and audiobook distribution platform, on its international expansion strategy in Spanish-speaking markets (Spain and Latin America). Subsequently, Javier advised the international expansion team of Storytel, the European audiobook platform, for four years on their strategy for entering Spanish-speaking markets (Spain, Mexico, Colombia, etc.), as well as other international markets. Later, for nearly three years, Javier was responsible for the launch and international expansion of Podimo, one of Europe's leading podcast and audiobook streaming platforms, in Spanish-speaking markets (Spain and Latin America).

Over the past three years, Javier has advised various organizations such as the Skeelo platform, Bayard and Editis publishers, as well as the media groups Atresmedia in Spain and RDFMedia en Chile, among other initiatives. Recently, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Aniara, a Swedish start-up that is revolutionizing the publishing industry through AI-driven translation and production. Javier has an extensive portfolio as a strategic advisor to multiple digital initiatives such as DeMarque, Recorded Books, the Basque Government’s eLiburutegia, ALT Autores, Benetech, Tekstum, Seebook, The Spanish Bookstage, El Placer de la Lectura, Komilibro, Slicebooks, among others.

For four editions (2016-2019), Javier was the Academic Director of the Barbastro’s Electronic Book Congress, the main professional gathering for the Spanish-speaking world that annually analyzes the evolution of digital publishing in the city of Barbastro (Huesca).

Throughout his career, Javier has shared his knowledge in numerous master’s and training courses, teaching at the Advanced Publishing Institute at New York University (NYU), the Master’s in Publishing at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), the online Master’s in Criticism and Cultural Communication at the University of Alcalá and El Cultural magazine, the Master’s in Cultural Management at Carlos III University, as well as the Master’s in Publishing at the Complutense University of Madrid. For over five years, he was co-director of the Master’s in Corporate and Institutional Communication 2.0 and the master’s in digital Publishing at the University of Alcalá, as well as Academic Co-Director of the first two editions of the Master’s in Publishing Management and Digital Marketing at the University of Alcalá in collaboration with the Unidad Editorial School (ESUE). He is also part of the faculty at Parix, a training school for book professionals managed by the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation. On the PARIX platform, Javier coordinates two courses related to the audio industry: one on podcast, audio series, and audio drama production; and another on the creation and sale of audio content for the publishing sector.

In March 2011, Javier Celaya received the Special RdL Dissemination Award, granted to professionals who have made digital communication and information their battleground.

In 2013, he was the Academic Director of the 5th Ibero-American Congress of Culture organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). Javier also served for eight years as a board member of the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy (ADIGITAL). He has also been a member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of Telos Magazine, part of the Telefónica Foundation, as well as Head of Institutional Relations at the Spanish Association of Electronic Books (ASELID).

Since 2014, he has been a member of the editorial committee of the Digital Culture Yearbook of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), which has become an annual reference document on the evolution of digital trends in the cultural world.

Javier holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Columbia University in New York and Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Boston College.

Contact details:
jcelaya@dosdoce.com | +34 606 367 708