El Prat airport premieres director

2023-06-08 18:36:28

BarcelonaThe week began with the announcement of the replacement at the head of the historic Catalan paper company Miquel y Costas: the president, Jordi Mercader Miró, has decided not to run for office in the renewal of chairs scheduled for the shareholders’ meeting on June 22 and his son and current vice president, Jordi Mercader Barata, will opt for the highest executive position. In addition to this restructuring, the addition of Teresa Busto del Castillo and former minister Narcís Serra to the board of directors as independent directors, replacing Joaquim Coello and Kim Faura. There have also been developments at CaixaBank, Pronovias and El Prat airport.

Aena signs Eva Valenzuela to manage El Prat airport

Eva Valenzuela will be the new director of El Prat airport, replacing Sonia Corrochano, who will become director of airport planning and regulatory control of Aena’s general management of airports. The news broke out at the Cercle d’Economia full conference, held last week in Barcelona, ​​with the presence, among many others, of the president and CEO of Aena, Maurici Lucena, who avoided making assessments. So, Valenzuela returns to Aena, where she had various responsibilities at Palma and Menorca airports until she left the company in 2020 and joined the French group ADP, which manages some airports in Paris, as director of operations. As for Corrochano, he has worked at Barcelona Airport since 2007 and has been its director since 2012.

Gonzalo Gortázar, new non-executive chairman of CaixaBank Payments & Consumer

The CEO of CaixaBank has assumed the non-executive chairmanship of CaixaBank Payments & Consumer, as published last week Official Bulletin of the Mercantile Registry (Borme), which also includes the appointment of Jordi Nicolau as CEO of CaixaBank’s payments and consumer finance subsidiary. In this way, the changes that became known in January, when the bank announced the departure of Juan Antonio Alcaraz, whom Gortázar replaces in the position, are official. The bank took advantage of Alcaraz’s departure to reorganize the structure and divided the businesses that until then had been held by the manager between three managers: Jaume Masana became the new business director, Maria Vicens took on the position of Director of Transformation Digital and Advanced Analytics and Jordi Nicolau became responsible for Payments & Consumer.

Marc Calabia, new Pronovias Deputy Minister

The Pronovias group will have a new CEO from September 1. It will be Marc Calabia Gibert, who until now held the position of general manager of the clothing brand Springfield, of the Tendam group. Calabia will replace the current CEO, Amandine Ohayon, who has decided to start a new professional phase. Until the incorporation of Calabia, it will be Clement Kwan, advisor to the company, who will assume the position of acting CEO. Calabia has been in management positions in the fashion sector for twenty-five years retail in companies such as Desigual, Levi Strauss and The Body Shop, from L’Oréal. At the same time, María Muntaner (Thinking Mu) as marketing director and Gemma Ruiz as product and merchandising director will also join the Pronovias management team from 1 July.

Jordi Guerrero, new general manager of Cilsa

The board of directors of Cilsa, the company that manages the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL Port) of the Port of Barcelona, ​​has appointed Jordi Guerrero as the entity’s new general manager. Guerrero thus occupies the position left vacant by the previous director, Alfonso Martínez, in 2022. Guerrero, a law graduate from the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU and the University of Barcelona, ​​joined Cilsa in 2021 as responsible for legal services and in 2022 he also assumed commercial management.