Training and professional experience of the board members

Training and professional experience of the board members

Training and
professional experience
of the board members
Juan Luis Arregui Ciarsolo
Juan Luis Arregui Ciarsolo was born in Mallavia (Vizcaya) and is currently chairman
of the board of directors as well as chairman of the executive committee of Ence.
He has a degree in technical engineering from the Higher School of Engineering of
Bilbao, a diploma in numerical control from Wandsdorf (Germany) and a Master’s
degree in micro-mechanical engineering from Besançon (France). He began his
professional career in 1975, founding Gamesa, a company that would later become
the Gamesa Group and encompass complementary activities such as aeronautics,
robotics, composites, wind turbines, etc. He was chairman of the company until
1995 and is currently vice chairman and member of both the appointments and
remunerations committee and the executive committee. In 1994, following the
integration of Gamesa with Iberdrola, he became a board member of Iberdrola, was
senior deputy chairman and a member of the executive committee until 2009. In
1995, he took charge of the Guascor company, a manufacturer of internal
combustion engines, complementing the engines with cogeneration installations. In
1998, he created CESA, a corporation dedicated solely to the production of wind
energy. In 2001, he founded Foresta Capital, S.L. for the production of hard wood
trees. In 2002, he created Foresta Biomasa, which became the world leader in the
production of plants with in vitro technology. In 2006, he took the helm of Ence as
chairman, a position he still holds today, and without ceasing the company’s pulp
production, he has diversified its activities with the production of renewable energy
through forest biomass.
He has also been senior deputy chairman of Cartera Industrial Rea, S.A. since 2008
and is a board member for various funds that invest in energy and activities related
to modern technology.
Ignacio de Colmenares y Brunet
Ignacio de Colmenares y Brunet was born in Madrid and is currently member of the
board of directors, the executive committee and the committee for development of
territorial forest development plans. He is also managing director of Ence and
president of ASPAPEL (Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers).
He has an undergraduate degree in law from the Central University of Barcelona
and a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management from IESE.
Ignacio brings extensive experience in the steel and renewable energy industries,
having helped to develop international business projects based on revenue growth,
investment optimisation, process improvements and cost control as a way of
increasing competitiveness.
Pedro López Jiménez
Pedro López Jiménez was born in Malaga and is an external proprietary director at
Ence.
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A civil engineer by training, he has been director of hydroelectric plant construction
at Hidroeléctrica Española, a board member and general manager of Empresarios
Agrupados, a board member of the National Institute of Industry, undersecretary of
the Ministry of Public Works and City Planning, general manager of ports, a board
member of Unión Fenosa and Enher and president of Endesa. He was also the
founder of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and the
Business Federation for the Electrical Industry (FEIE), a member of the board of
governors of the Spanish Energy Club, a board member of Atlas Copco, S.A.,
Lingotes Especiales, S.A. and CEPSA as well as deputy chairman of Indra.
He is currently board member and member of the executive committee of ACS
Actividades de Construcciones y Servicios, S.A., a board member of ACS Servicios y
Concesiones, S.A., deputy chairman of Dragados, S.A., chairman of the Teratest
Group and a member of the board of governors of the University of Alcalá de
Henares.
Javier Arregui Abendivar
Javier Arregui Abendivar was born in Durango and is currently the legal
representative of Retos Operativos XXI, S.L., which is a member of the board of
directors of Ence, and is member of the company’s appointments and
remunerations committee.
He has a degree in business administration from Saint Louis University (Missouri,
United States) and began his professional career in 1992 in the sales department of
the Guascor Group, occupying a variety of positions until he was ultimately named
managing director in Argentina in 1996. In 2002, he returned to Spain, where until
2005 he held management positions in the Séché Group, was member of the
boards of directors of Cesa, the Guascor Group and Foresta Capital and was a
controller and chief procurement officer for Campo Noble, S.A.
He is currently holds the position of sole administrator of the Foresta Group.
Pascual Fernández Martínez
Pascual Fernández Martínez was born in Albacete and is currently member of the
board of directors of Ence as well as member and secretary of the company’s
appointments and remunerations committee.
He has a doctorate in economics and business and has carried out his professional
career primarily in the public administration, both as a professor and researcher, at
the Autónoma University of Madrid, Madrid’s Rey Juan Carlos University and the
University of Valladolid, and in management for the autonomous communities of
Castilla y León and Madrid as well as for the Ministry of the Economy and Treasury
and the Ministry of Environment.
He is a lecturer of applied economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, a
lecturer in the Executive Master in Public Administration (EMPA) program at the
Instituto de Empresa Business School, a lecturer in the Master’s program in
Infrastructure and Public Service Management of the School of Civil Engineering at
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrd;, director of the “Economy of Madrid” Centre
for Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, chairman of the Economics and
Environment Commission of the Association of Economists of Madrid, and member
of the Association of European Conjuncture Institutes (l’Association D’Instituts
Européens de Conjoncture Economique AIECE).
He has served on the boards of directors of a number of companies, including
Sodical, Renfe, instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Gran Telescopio de Canarias
(chairman from 1997 to 2001), Sociedad Gestora de Planes de Pensiones de Caja
Madrid and Gamesa (chairman of the appointments and remunerations committee
from 2006 to 2010).
Javier Echenique Landiribar
Javier Echenique Landiribar was born in Isaba (Navarre) and is currently an
external proprietary director at Ence and is member of Ence’s executive and audit
committees.
He has a degree in economic and actuarial sciences and has been a board member
and managing director of Allianz-Ercos and managing director of the BBVA Group.
He is currently vice chairman of Banco Sabadell, S.A., chairman of Banco
Guipuzcoano, S.A. and a board member of REPSOL YPF S.A., ACS Actividades de
Construcción y Servicios, S.A., ACS Servicios, Comunicaciones y Energía, S.L.,
Telefónica Móviles México y Celistics S.L. and Calcinor, S.A.
He is also a member of the advisory council of Telefónica Europa and a delegate of
the board of Telefónica, S.A. in the Basque Country and trustee of the Novia
Salcedo Foundation and the Altuna Foundation.
Jesús Ruano Mochales
Jesús Ruano Mochales was born in Madrid and is currently the legal representative
of Norteña Patrimonial, S.L., which is a member of the board of directors of Ence,
and is member of the company’s audit committee.
He has a degree in economics and business from CUNEF and a specialisation in
finance from the University of Deusto. He held the position of assistant manager at
the Chase Manhattan Bank from 1997 to 2000 and the position of deputy director
of mergers and acquisitions at N M Rothschild & Sons (investment banking) from
2000 to 2005.
He is currently director of the Investees division of Cajastur and member of the
management and financial management committees.
He is also the representative of Cajastur on the board of directors of various
companies, such as Itinere, Telecable, CAPSA, General de Alquiler de Maquinaria,
S.A. and Sedes.
José Carlos Del Álamo Jiménez
José Carlos Del Álamo Jiménez currently holds the position of independent external
board member of Ence.
He has a degree in forestry from the and a diploma from ESADE. He is also a
lecturer in the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Master Degree at the
Environmental Sciences University Institute, part of Madrid’s Complutense
University, a lecturer in the Environmental Project Engineering Master degree at the
Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and a lecturer in Carolina Foundation’s Higher
Course on Forestry Management Policies and Instruments as well as a professor at
the San Pablo CEU University and other academic institutions.
He has held positions of great responsibility in both central government, for which
he served as Director-General of Nature Conservation (Ministry of Environment),
and at the autonomous community level, where he founded the Regional Ministry of
Environment of Galicia and was board member from 1997 to 2003 and Director
General of Forest and the Natural Environment from 1990 to 1996. He was also
vice chairman of the Autonomous National Parks Authority, president of the
trusteeship of the Islas Atlánticas National Park, member of the Environmental
Advisory Board of the Ministry of Environment and chairman of the Galician
Environmental Council.
He is also president of the Professional Union of Engineering Associations (UPCI),
president and dean of the College and Association of Forestry Engineers, secretary
of the “Forests and Climate Change” forum, president of the “Environmental Forum
for Economic and Social Progress” and a board member of the Regional Hunting
Council of the regional government of Castilla y León.
He is currently chairman and CEO of Tecnoma, S.A., an environmental consulting
and engineering firm, chairman of Tecnoma Energía Sostenible, S.A., chairman of
Tecnoma Aprovechamientos Energéticos, S.L. and chairman of Estadística y
Servicios, S.A., all of which belong to the TYPSA Group, of which he is also a board
member.
Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández
Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández was born in Segovia, holds the position of
external board member of Ence, is chairman of the company’s appointments and
remunerations committee and is a member of the executive committee.
With a degree in law and economic and business from the Pontifica de Comillas
University, he began his professional career at JPMorgan where he held various
positions in the company’s financial markets division from 1986 to 1996. In 1996,
he joined the Telefónica Group as its CFO. In 1998, he was named president of TPIPáginas Amarillas, and in 2000, he was made managing director of the group, a
position he held through to the end of 2003. In 2002, he was named managing
director of the Credit Suisse Group in Spain and Portugal.
He currently holds the position of Chief Financial Officer to the managing director of
the Prisa Group and is a member of the board of directors Telecomunicaciones de
Sao Paulo. He is also the trustee of the Comillas University Foundation, the
+Familia Foundation and the Fernando Abril-Martorell Foundation.
Gustavo Matías Clavero
Gustavo Matías Clavero was born in Salamanca, currently holds the position of
independent external board member of Ence and is a member of the company’s
appointments and remunerations committee.
He has a doctorate in economics and business from the Madrid’s Universidad
Autónoma (UAM 1993) and a degree in information sciences from the Complutense
University of Madrid (1977). He is a lecturer of international economic organisation
at the UAM, where he has been teaching since 1986, and in the Balance Sheet
Analysis Master Degree of the Instituto de Empresa Business School (1982). He is a
member of various expert panels on economic client and economic consensus, an
evaluator of three scientific publications and a regular contributor to the magazine
“Consejeros” and the digital publication “Intercampus.”
As a consultant and
researcher, he is primarily concerned with the new economy of information and
knowledge (about which he taught doctoral courses for ten years at UAM and has
published a dozen books and pamphlets), healthcare, education and sustainable
development.
He was a visiting professor at CUNEF for three years, at Universitas Nebrissensis for
another three years, at the European Business School, at the School of Industrial
Organisation (Escuela de Organización Industrial) and at the School of
Telecommunications Engineers (Escuela de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación). He
has codirected or taught summer courses at UAM, the Complutense University, the
Universidad del País Vasco, Valladolid University, UIMP and Segovia universities. A
managing advisor to the in Telematics Master program (Caixa Galicia), he has also
directed a dozen courses for the European Social Fund and others on sustainable
development and its indicators.
He has been a member of the Group for Regulation of Telecommunications
(GRETEL), vice president of the Spanish Telecommuting Association, director of the
Spanish Association of Telecommunications and Information Technology Law, a
economics journalist for Europa Press, El País and Gaceta de los Negocios as well as
a columnist for El Mundo-Nueva Economía, media for which he has published more
than 3,000 articles.
In 1978, he was decorated by royal decree as an officer of the Order of Agricultural
Merit and has received a number of national awards from the National Institute of
Statistics and for economic journalism.
José Guillermo Zubía Guinea
José Guillermo Zubía Guinea was born in Seville, currently holds the position of
independent external board member of Ence, and is a member of the company’s
executive committee and chairman of the audit committee.
He has a degree in law from the Madrid’s Complutense University. He has also
studied economics at the Complutense University and taxation at the Centre for
Economics and Tax Studies (Centro de Estudios Económicos y Tributarios).
He has been a business owner and consultant and board member for various
public and private firms. He was secretary general of the Alava Business Union
(SEA) from 1979 to 1995. He was general secretary of the Basque business
confederation (Confebask) from October 1995 to March 2011. He also regularly
participates in various courses and conferences at the Universidad Internacional
Menéndez Pelayo university, the summer courses of El Escorial and the summer
university of the País Vasco University.
He is currently also a member of the standing committee at the Andalusia
School of Economics.
He is also a member of the Economic and Social Council of Spain and its
economic and labour relations committees.
José Manuel Serra Peris
José Manuel Serra Peris was born in Valencia, currently holds the position of
independent external board member of Ence and is a member of the company’s
audit committee.
He has a degree in law from the Valencia University (1981) and is a state attorney
(joined in 1984).
He was active in the administration, first as a state attorney in the regional office of
the Spanish treasury in Valencia and in the courts of the Valencian regional
government (1986 to 1996), and later held various positions in the state
administration, primarily in the Ministry of Industry and Energy, where he was
general technical secretary (1996-1998), undersecretary (1998) and finally
Secretary of State for Industry and Energy (1998-2000), a position he left at his
own request. He has also been president of the Spanish Patent and Trademark
Office and president of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology
Research (CIEMAT) and president of the Centre for Industrial Technological
Development (CDTI).
He has sat on the boards of directors of Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones
Industriales (SEPI) and Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Patrimoniales (SEPPA),
companies responsible for the privatisation of public companies such as, Iberia
Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A., Endesa, Red Eléctrica de España, S.A., Uralita, S.A.
and Cable y Televisión de Cataluña, S.A. (MENTA) of the Auna Group.
Currently, in addition to consulting and providing legal advice, he is a member of,
among others, the boards of directors of Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. and
Bankia, S.A.
Pedro Barato Triguero
Pedro Barato Triguero was born in Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) and
currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence.
He has a degree in law and has been a member of the National Confederation of
Farmers and Livestock Owners since 1978 and the national president of the
Agricultural Association of Young Farmers (ASAJA) since 1990. He is also a board
member of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE), a member
of the presidium of the Committee of Agricultural Organisations (COPA) of the
European Union, member of the CAP advisory committee of the European
Commission, president of the Inter-trade Organisation of Spanish Olive Oil,
president of the Occupational Accident Insurance Association (AMAT), president of
the National Confederation of Beet and Sugar Cane Growers and president of the
Spanish Federation of Self-employed Persons (CEAT).
He was a member of the European Economic and Social Committee from 1997 to
2007 and a member of the Spanish Economic and Social Council from 1991 to
2007.
The company board members have not been convicted for fraud nor been subject
to official public incrimination or sanction by statutory or regulatory authorities.
They further have not been declared unfit by a court for their actions as a member
of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of an issuer or for their
actions in the management of the affairs of an issuer in the past five years.
There are also no family relationships between the members of the board of
directors, except for the parent-child relationship between the representative of
Retos Operativos XXI, S.L., Javier Arregui Abendivar, and Juan Luis Arregui
Ciarsolo.