Iberian press has appointed Jesus Echevarria general manager of the communication group in Galicia, an autonomous community where he publishes ‘Faro de Vigo’, the dean of the Spanish press, and ‘La Opinión de A Coruña’, and where ‘El Correo Gallego’ has recently been awarded.
With a long career and deep knowledge of the communication sector, Echevarría will boost the positioning and the business area in a region with deep roots and strategic relevance for the group chaired by Javier Moll.
L’actual director general, Isidoro Niciezawho has held the position for 14 years, will from now on devote himself exclusively to his other responsibility within the group, that of General Director of Content for all Prensa Ibérica titles.
For the last 17 years, Echevarría has been general director of Communication and Institutional Relations of the Inditex Group, from where he has been responsible for the global policy of the company’s image, its corporate messages, institutional links to the areas where it develops its activity and its reputational consistency.
Jesús Echevarría has pointed out “the enormous seduction and great responsibility of joining the fastest growing communication group in Spain to its ambitious global project, particularly in Galicia, with the enormous potential that exists from a professional and human point of view . All the strategic development that is being carried out by Prensa Ibérica to build the largest information network in Spain with the best group of professionals in the world of journalism is certainly commendable. Trying to help in this growth is a fascinating challenge”.
Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Madrid, from the Faculty of Journalism of the Complutense University of Madrid and Master in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid/’El País’, he has worked in the editorial offices of the newspaper ‘ Ya’, ‘El Sol’, Onda Madrid, Cadena SER, ABC and ‘El País’. He also held various positions of responsibility at the Hachette-Filipacchi international group of magazines and at the Vocento Group’s Editors Workshop, where he was deputy director of ”El Semanal”, the most widely distributed Sunday supplement in Spain, and director of publications at the head of week
In the field of corporate communication, in 2000 he joined the Altadis distribution company, the result of the merger between the Spanish Tabacalera and the French Seita, where he assumed responsibility from Spain for the director of Corporate Communication until in 2005 he joined the Inditex project.