Carlos Secada as a child with his parents and sister lived alone in the middle of the Amazon jungle. He grew up deprived of any initiative coming from modernity and technology. It was only after returning to the city and studying, that he managed to start working for Accenture, and began for the first time to help people and companies with technology. Finally after studying a master’s degree in business in the U.S. that solidified his awareness and passion for applying technology to benefit people in order to improve their quality of life.
After a successful stint in global corporate ventures, Carlos founded Zagitas and invited Joel Moreno, an experienced Master in Information Systems with great experience as an entrepreneur, to join as a co-founder. Like Carlos, Joel also experienced firsthand the shortcomings of technology in his native Cuba. The passion of both for innovation and technology, and having experienced the change that represents the use of technology in
improving the quality of life of people, is the combination that awakened the spark and is where the magic began.
This is how the development of “Intelligent Digital Workers” was sedimented in Zagitas, combining automation and artificial intelligence to free people and companies from repetitive and mundane high volume work, allowing people to free themselves from these tasks to be able to do more entertaining, achieve higher-value work, be more creative, analysis and interaction with other human beings. At the same time, the company reduces its process times, avoids reprocesses and errors, and increases its
productivity, resulting in more timely decisions with better information.
It is this passion for the use of technology, the experience and knowledge of its founders, the energy and youth of its staff, which has allowed them to gain the trust of global clients such as Kimberly Clark and Banco Santander.
Zagitas has had a very important growth and has the support of global technology partners, especially Microsoft, of which they are Silver Partners, as well as the ISO certification for information security management.
Zagitas reaches the North American market through the Startup Business Class program of the Canadian government, being the first company of Peruvian origin to be accepted in this program. Currently, operating globally from its Headquarters in Toronto, where they are established not only for the quality of life and diversity, but also for being one of the most important technology hubs in North America.
It is a very exciting journey ahead of us, the challenges of constantly evolving and changing technology are becoming faster and faster. This ability to scale globally is what drives our future focus on freeing people from mundane and repetitive work to continue helping people have more time and quality content.
