Francisco Mingorance

Francisco Mingorance is the Secretary General of CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe), the trade body representing European cloud providers including OVHcloud, Hetzner, and Scaleway. On 22 April 2026, he publicly described the European Commission's decision to include S3NS — a Thales/Google Cloud joint venture — in the €180m sovereign cloud framework as "clearly an own goal" and characterised it as "sovereignty washing" .

One day later, Mingorance delivers the keynote "Making Sovereignty Verifiable" at the inaugural Sovereign Tech Europe summit in Brussels, where he outlines CISPE's proposed auditable sovereignty framework — a certification system designed to give cloud procurement a legally defensible definition of what constitutes genuine sovereignty versus hedged access . The framework addresses a core problem: the Commission's SEAL (Sovereignty European Assurance Level) tiers treat SEAL-2 data sovereignty and SEAL-3 digital resilience as occupying the same procurement category, when they differ structurally.

As CISPE Secretary General, Mingorance represents the European cloud industry's commercial interest in enforcement of meaningful sovereignty distinctions. The US CLOUD Act creates a structural data-disclosure risk for any cloud provider legally domiciled in the US or operating through a US parent — a risk his "own goal" characterisation was designed to make concrete in the political debate.