Board of Directors and Committees

Board Of Directors and Committees

• Mr. Luis de Valdivia
  The founder of Ecoener, its CEO and chairman of the Board of Directors, founded the company 35 years ago and spearheaded its internationalization. He has a degree from the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid and from the Senior Company Management Programme (PADE, by its Spanish acronym) of the University of Navarra IESE Business School. A pioneer in the development of renewable energies in Spain, Luis is a member of the advisory boards of the Fragas del Eume National Park and the Corrubedo y Lagunas de Carregal e Vixán National Park. He is a member of the Galician Environmental and Sustainable Development Board, a collegiate body providing participation, consultation and advice to the Galician Regional Government’s Department of Environment, Territory and Infrastructure on plans, projects and actions that impact sustainability. As a representative of the Galician Employers’ Confederation, Luis de Valdivia is a member of the Governing Council of Aguas de Galicia and of the management board of the hydraulics department of APPA (Association of Renewable Energy Companies, by its Spanish acronym).

• Mr. Fernando Rodríguez (Executive Director)
  Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors, as well as Ecoener’ General Counsel and Director of National Business Development. He has 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, the last 17 of them at Ecoener and, before that, three as an independent lawyer. He graduated with a degree in law from the University of A Coruña, with wide-ranging experience in administrative asset management and the international expansion of Ecoener.

• Mr. Eduardo Serra (Shareholder Director)

  Eduardo Serra began his career in the public sector and was Secretary of State for Defence and then Minister of Defence for four years. He has held high-level executive positions in the private sector, such as CEO of Telettra Spain, of Peugeot-Talbot Spain and of UBS Spain. He was also the founder and CEO of the telecommunications company Airtel and a member of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank Spain. He is currently chairman of the Board of Directors of Everis (an NTT Data company) and CEO of the consultation firm Eduardo Serra y Asociados, S.L., as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Pharma Mar, S.A. He works actively with non-profit organisations such as the Real Instituto Elcano and Museo del Prado. He is president of both Fundación Transforma España and Fundación España Constitucional. Mr. Serra holds a degree in law and completed his education as a State Lawyer, coming top of his year (1974).

• Ms. Ana Palacio (Shareholder Director)
  Ana Palacio is a lawyer and the founder of the law firm Palacio & Asociados. She held a number of prominent positions in the public sector at the start of her professional career, such as member of the European Parliament and the Spanish Congress of Deputies. She has also been a member of the Spanish Council of State and First Vice-President/General Counsel of the World Bank Group. She was the first woman in Spain to become Minister of Foreign Affairs (2002). She has also been the vice-chairperson of the Executive Board of the multinational group Areva l. Ms. Palacio is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of Enagás, Pharmamar and AEE Power, this last a company specialising in the energy sector in Africa. She is also a member of the Investcorp international Advisory Committee, a member of the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) External Advisory Committee and a member of the United States Atlantic Council. In addition, she is also a member of the governing bodies of a number of public and research institutes, such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rand Corporation (Europa), Real Instituto Elcano Scientific Council and the Global Leadership Foundation. Ana Palacio plays an active part in international conferences and forums relating to the energy sector, especially the G-20 International Energy Forum and the Atlantic Council Summit and GeoEconomics and Energy Forums. She has been a speaker at the International Energy Agency (IEA). She has a degree in law, political science and sociology and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Humanities by Georgetown University. She was awarded the Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Award in 2017.

• Mr. Rafael Canales Abaitua (Shareholder Director)
  Rafael Canales has 25 years’ wide-ranging experience in the area of finance. He has a degree in economics and business sciences from the Deusto Business School (Bilbao), in addition to postgraduate studies at the Escuela de Organización Industrial and on the IESE Business School Executive Development Programme. Since September 2018, he has been the managing director of Onchena, S.L., a family corporate investment holding company. Mr. Canales’ professional activity has been carried out in the financial sector. Since 2001, he has worked in the area of asset management in various executive posts, firstly at Consultor Servicios Financieros and then at Banca March after its acquisition of Consultor. Prior to this, he worked in corporate banking at Argentaria – BBVA and at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (now J.P. Morgan). In the area of education, he has been a lecturer in banking, international financing and financial management at ICADE (Comillas Pontifical University). Mr. Canales is a member of the Board of Directors of Inversiones Almagro Socimi, S.A. and Serrano 61, Socimi, S.A., both listed companies. Previously, he sat on the boards of directors and audit committees of the listed companies Mas Movil, S.A. and Solarpack S.A., and was also a board member for Geniova Technologies, S.L.,Tratamiento Superficial Robotizado, S.L. and Gaea Inversión, S.C.
  • Inés Juste (Independent Director) Inés Juste has been the chairperson of Grupo JUSTE, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical family company, since 2011. She currently sits on the board of Renta 4 Banco, S.A., and the Instituto de Consejeros-Administradores (IC-A). She is Vice-president of the Confederación de Organizaciones Empresariales (CEOE) and Fundación Adecco. She has also been the president of the Madrid Association for the Development of Family Companies (ADEFAM, by its Spanish acronym), a member of the Governing Council of the Spanish Pharmaceutical Industry Association (Farmaindustria, by its acronym in Spanish) and vice-president of the Spanish Chemical Industry Federation (FEIQUE, by its acronym in Spanish). Ms. Juste has a degree in company administration and management from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a master’s degree in company management from the IE Business School. She has received a number of awards, such as the FEDEPE and ASEME national prize for a female entrepreneur in 2020.

• Ms. Inés Juste (Independent Director)
  Inés Juste has been the chairperson of Grupo JUSTE, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical family company, since 2011. She currently sits on the board of Renta 4 Banco, S.A., and the Instituto de Consejeros-Administradores (IC-A). She is Vice-president of the Confederación de Organizaciones Empresariales (CEOE) and Fundación Adecco. She has also been the president of the Madrid Association for the Development of Family Companies (ADEFAM, by its Spanish acronym), a member of the Governing Council of the Spanish Pharmaceutical Industry Association (Farmaindustria, by its acronym in Spanish) and vice-president of the Spanish Chemical Industry Federation (FEIQUE, by its acronym in Spanish). Ms. Juste has a degree in company administration and management from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a master’s degree in company management from the IE Business School. She has received a number of awards, such as the FEDEPE and ASEME national prize for a female entrepreneur in 2020.

• Ms. Marta Fernández Currás (Independent Director)
  Fernández Currás is a tax inspector and a state comptroller and auditor. She has been a member of the Museo del Prado, Museo Thyssen, Museo Reina Sofía, Biblioteca Nacional trusts and is currently a member of the Instituto de Analistas Financieros trust. Since 2016, she has been the managing partner for Galicia of the global audit firm E&Y, where she heads the tax department and is responsible for a wide range of projects associated with national and multinational companies. At the same time, she is a partner in the public sector department, where she provides services to national public companies. She has represented the Ministry of Economy Institute of Fiscal Studies in Galicia; was head of the Regional Collection Branch of the Tax Agency (AEAT) in Galicia; the Comptroller General of Galicia; an inspector at the AEAT Large Taxpayers Central Office, the Galician Regional Government’s Minister of Finance and Secretary of State for Budgets and Expenditure. She has also been an associate professor of public finance and tax systems at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Faculty of Economics, the AEAT administrator for Santiago, a member of the Galicia Regional Administrative Economic Tribunal (TEAR, by its Spanish acronym) and assistant territorial comptroller for Pontevedra.

• Mr. Juan Carlos Ureta (Independent Director)
  Juan Carlos Ureta’s professional career began in 1980 at the Ministry of Economy and Finance as a State Lawyer. He also worked as a broker at the Madrid stock exchange until 1989. He has been a board member of companies such as Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), Sociedad Rectora de la Bolsa de Madrid, S.A., Iberclear and Indra, and a member of the Advisory Boards of Lucent Technologies and ING Direct. He was president of the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts (IEAF) for six years. He is a co-founder and the current CEO of Renta 4 Banco, S.A. He has a degree in law, with a speciality in economic law, from the University of Deusto (winning the final year National Award) and he completed his studies as a State Lawyer (1980) and stockbroker (1984).

• Mr. Fernando Lacadena (Independent Director)
  Fernando Lacadena has over 40 years’ experience in the financial sector, focusing in particular on business management and specialising most recently in general financial management for large multinational listed corporations. He has in-depth experience of business expansion, as well as financing operation negotiation and structuring, relations with the capital market and investment operations (M&A). His career began at the auditing firm of Arthur Andersen. He has worked at Grupo ACS-Dragados and as financial director of Grupo Sacyr Vallehermoso. Mr. Lacadena has held high-level positions in the real estate sector, as financial director of Merlin Properties SOCIMI, the leading tertiary-sector real estate asset leasing company in Spain, a listed company on the IBEX-35 and, prior to this, as the managing director of Testa Inmuebles at Renta SOCIMI, S.A., handling the entire process of its flotation. He is also a board member (and chairman of the audit committee) of the NH Hotel Group, S.A., a leading listed hotel chain in Europe and America. Mr. Lacadena is also president of the Association of Leasing Asset Estate Agencies (ASIPA, by its Spanish acronym), a Spanish Association of property leasing companies. He has a degree in law and economic and business sciences from the Comillas Pontifical University (ICADE).

• Mr. Dean Tenerelli (Independent Director)
  Dean Tenerelli has over 30 years’ experience in the investment sector. During this time he has been engaged with hundreds of management teams facing strategic, competitive, regulatory, macroeconomic and financial challenges. Mr. Tenerelli’s career began in the investment sector as an assistant portfolio manager at Artisan Partners. After this, he worked for a year at Credit Suisse as a variable income analyst, specialising in telecommunications. He then joined T. Rowe Price, an American asset management company, where he has worked for the last 20 years as a European telecommunications analyst and sector portfolio manager, handling the company’s variable income strategy for Europe and co-directing its global and EAFE strategies. Tenerelli has a degree in economics from Rutgers University and an MBA from the ESADE Business School and an MA in International Management from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management).

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