Juan Jose Dardon Mota (43, JJ for short) is Head of Innovation Management in the Otto Group. The Group Innovation Management focuses three main tasks: Creating transparency of innovation efforts and market trends across the group, identifying initiatives and technologies that have a group-wide synergy and business potential, and finally, supporting those teams in executing and delivering such initiatives.

Born in Guatemala, he has 20 years of experience in product management and digital business. After beginnings at guenstiger.de, JJ landed in the Berlin start-up world. He spent ten years building and managing product teams for various Startups from Axel Springer, Rocket Internet and Finleap.JJ now lives in Hamburg-Volksdorf with his wife and two young sons, loves FC Barcelona and Metallica, and enjoys spending his vacations in Andalusia, his mother''s homeland.