Cortell, a serial entrepreneur, is currently founder and CEO of Kanteron systems a precision medicine software company whose story was picked up by Microsoft's news site.
Cortell has founded La Resistencia Digital and has actively cooperated with the Creative Commons and the FFII.
In May 2005 Spanish newspapers reported widely on an attempt by Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in Spain to block a talk by Cortell.
Cortell was invited by the ETSIA Student Union and Linux Users' Group to give a talk at the university analysing P2P networks.
[1] At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia.