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He spent most of his career working in corporate banking both internationally and in Spain as responsible in capital market and corporate department in Bank of America and Banco Santander. 

He is currently Vice-president of Iberpapel Gestion SA, partner and member of the board of Director of Amistra SGC, S.A.  and member of the Executive Committee of Viscofan, S.A., Director of Naturin Viscofan GmbH , and Industrias Alimentarias de Navarra, S.A.U.

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Born in San Sebastian. She has broad professional experience in a number of multi-nationals, including the audit firm Touche & Ross, S.A., British Petroleum España, S.A. and the investment bank Charterhouse Limited in which she was Managing Director and Director of its Spanish subsidiary and founder and director of D+A Documentación y Análisis S.A.

She currently acts as a business strategy adviser to family firms

Member of  the Board of Directors of Viscofan, S.A., of its Executive Committee, Audit Committee and Appointments and Remeneration Committee.

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Native of Madrid. With broad experience in government service at the Ministry of Agriculture, with postings in Spain and abroad, and deputy in the general courts of the spanish state.

He has held the positions of Director General of Agri-food Organization and Industry in the Government of La Rioja, Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry in the Government of Navarre, was Chairman of the Boards of various listed companies and professor in the Food Technology and Projects Departments of the University of Saragossa and the Public University of Navarre.

Former senator and currently deputy of the congress he has been very active as Chairman or member of the various Agricultural, Fisheries and Food committees of the Congress. He is a recipient of the Gran Cruz del Merito Agrario y Pesquero.

He is member of the Board of Directors of Viscofan, S.A, and member of its Appointments and Remuneration Committee and Chairman of the Audit Committee.

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He has broad experience working in the legal profession and in the financial sector, where he was Managing Director of Banco Urquijo, Chairman of Banif and Director of Argentaria and of BBVA.

He is currently Chairman of Roche Farma, of Universal Music Spain, of Logista, S.A;  Director of Prisa and member of its Executive Committee, president of its appointments and remuneration committee and member of its corporate governement committee; member of the board of director of Prisa TV, and of its Audit Committee and president of its Appointments and Remuneraton Committee; member of the board of Altadis; chairman of Advisory Board of Spencer Stuar; and member of the advisory board of Vodafone and Aguirre & Newman.

In the cultura sphere he is Presidente of the Teatro Real, the Foundation Greco 2014, and Real Fábrica de Tapices; Vice-president and president of the Executive committee of the Ortega-Marañon Foundation; director of Santillana Foundation, Altadis Foundation, Real Fundación de Toledo, Army Museum and Toledo International center for the peace. He is a permanent member of the San Fernando Real Academia de Bellas Artes, and has been member of the International Council of the Tate Gallery.

He holds the grand cross of Alfonso X el Sabio and officer of the french legion of honor, and adopted son of the city of Toledo.

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With broad experience in industry, in 1989 he was appointed Financial and Administrative Director of Construcciones Auxiliares de Ferrocarriles, S.A. (CAF) where he subsequently became General Managing Director in 1992. In 2006 he joined the Board of Viscofan, S.A. as an independent Director and in 2007 became an observer on its Audit Committee.

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Mr. Marco Gardoqui has a long professional career, he has worked for financial entities, and his activities have covered teaching, consulting, and the press world ,where he has a strong reputation for his actively contribution as economic expert and columnist, he belongs to the Publishing Committee of Vocento Group.

He also has developed a wide experience in several industrial companies, belonging to multiples Board of Directors; currently he is Director of Scheider Electric España, Progénika Biopharma, Minerales y Productos Derivados, Tubacex Tubos Inoxidables SA and Iberdrola Ingeniería y construcción (IBerinco) SA.  Previously, he has belonged, among others, to the Board of Director of Técnicas Reunidas, Banco de Comercio,  IBV, and Banco de Crédito Local, and chairman of Naturgás.

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Chairman and CEO of the Merck Group in Spain and independent Director of the Leche Pascual Group.

Currently, she is leading the integration process of Milipore to the Merck Group, with experience in the integration process with the biotechnology company Serono, a company with which she has been linked, in different posts, since 1999, and in which she was Vice-Chair of Serono Iberia y Paises Nordicos and Nordic countries when purchased by the Merck group.

She was previously Managing Director of Farmacéutica Essex from the Schering-Plough Group, and Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Guerbert, S.A, as well as sales director for Roche, S.A.

Currently she is member of the Board of Directors of the Circulo de Empresarios, APD, and Adecco.

Her career has also been recognised by numerous prizes and awards in recognition of her work as a notable director. She was the first woman who received the award "Executive of the Year" in 2007 by the Madrid Chamber of Commerce.

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Practising lawyer with his own law office, working mainly in the area of civil and mercantile private litigation, and qualified in Navarre Local Law. He has been a faculty memeber of the two law schools, Escuelas de Práctica Jurídica, in Navarra since they were first created; and currently lectures at the EPJ at the Public University of Navarre.

He is on the list of arbitrators in mercantile law of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Navarre and has been Treasurer for the governing committee of the professional association of lawyers (Colegio de Abogados) in Pamplona for ten years.

He has experience as a legal advisor to, and member of, many boards of directors in the business world.