Corporate governance

Born in Ciudad Real in 1959. He holds 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 and holds the Spanish Army’s Diploma of Honour.

As regards his career as an executive, he worked first as a Systems Engineer at SAINCO (US) (1984-1995) and subsequently at technology companies such as SUN Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Internet Business Unit. From 2003 to 2008, he was CEO of Lucent Technologies Iberia and CMO of Alcatel Lucent. He was also Director of Operations and CEO at SiTech Finanzauto Caterpillar (2006-2009). Between 2009 and 2013 he was Executive Chairman of Grupo Daorje and, from 2013 to 2018, CEO of Ingeniatrics Technologies.

As regards his non-executive experience, he has been Chairman of the Sustainability and Corporate Governance Committee, and director-adviser to Grupo ANTOLÍN, (2018-2022), independent director of the SEC-US listed company Telvent GiT and Chairman of its Appointments and Remuneration Committee (2004 – 2010), independent director of Abengoa Solar (2010 – 2014), independent director of Lantero Group and Chairman of its Auditing Committee (2010 – 2018), and an independent director and adviser to Raona Enginyers (2019 – 2022). From 2020 to 2022 he was an independent director-adviser to the IPS Group; and from 2019 to 2022 has been an independent director-adviser to 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 Director of the Connected Industries Masters Course (MIC) at the Comillas Pontifical University’s ICAI School of Engineering. He is also a Professor on the Independent Directors Programme at ICADE Business School.