Corporate governance

Born in Ciudad Real in 1959. He has a degree in Advanced Industrial Engineering from Comillas Pontifical University (ICIA); a Diploma from IESE’s Senior Management Programme (PADE); a Certificate on Good Corporate Governance (IC-A ECODA); and a Certificate from the Independent Directors Programme (ICADE Business School).

He has been made a Member of Merit of the Engineers’ Association at the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ICAI) and an Honourable Member of Observatorio Industria 4.0.

As regards his executive career, he started as a Systems Engineer at SAINCO (US) (1984-1995); and later in technology companies such as SUN Microsystems where he was responsible for the Internet Business Unit. During the period 2003-2008 he was CEO of Lucent Technologies Iberia and CMO of Alcatel Lucent. He was also COO and CEO of SiTech Finanzauto Caterpillar (2006-2009). Between 2009-2013 he was Executive Chairman of Daorje Group and from 2013 to 2018 CEO of Ingeniatrics Technologies.

Regarding his non-executive experience, he has been Chairman of the Sustainability and Corporate Governance Committee, and Advisory Director of ANTOLIN Group, (2018-2022), independent director of the SEC-US listed company Telvent GiT and Chairman of its Appointment and Remuneration Committee (2004 - 2010); independent director of Abengoa Solar (2010 - 2014); independent director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Grupo Lantero (2010 - 2018); and director and independent advisor of Raona Enginyers (2019 - 2022); from 2020 to 2022 he was independent director-advisor of Group IPS; from 2019 to 2022, independent director-advisor of PackBenefit.

In the academic sphere, he is Director of the Connected Industries Programme, Director of the Master’s Course in the Digital Transformation of Industry (MTDi) and a Professor on the Independent Directors Programme at ICADE Business School.