Co-founder and CEO of Libelium. King Jaime I Award 2017 and Women Innovators Awards 2018. Top 100 most creative people in business, according to Forbes. Not since the information and telecommunications era began in the 1970s have we known anything like the Internet of Things (IoT). Alicia Asín co-founded Libelium in 2006, a company that designs and manufactures IoT technology to improve the quality of life of citizens.