Bernardo José Villazán Gil

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 career as an executive, he worked first as a Lead Engineer at SAINCO (US) (1984-1995) and subsequently at SUN Microsystems (1995-2002). From 2003 to 2008, he was Lucent Technologies Iberia's CEO and Alcatel Lucent's CMO. 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 an independent director of the SEC-US listed company Telvent GiT and Chairman of its Appointments and Remuneration Committee (2004 – 2010), an independent director of Abengoa Solar (2010 – 2014), an independent director of Lantero Group and Chairman of its Auditing Committee (2010 – 2018), and an independent director and adviser to Raona Enginyers (2019 – 2022).

His current positions include independent director-adviser to the IPS Group (since 2020), independent director-advisor to PackBenefit (since 2019) and, since 2018, director of Antolín-Irausa, S.A. Group, Chairman of its Sustainability and Corporate Governance Committee, and member of its Auditing Committee.

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.