Board of Directors and Corporate Management Committee

Founding Member and President of Global Dominion Access, S.A. since 2004.

He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica, Madrid. In 1979 he started his career as Director at Banco Bilbao, where he remained until 1985. In 1988 he was appointed Executive Director of Nerisa, remaining there until 1993 when he moved to SEAT as Director of Strategy. He played an important part in the creation of INSSEC in 1995, and was CEO until 2010. Executive Chairman of CIE Automotive from 2002 where he had duties in Strategic Management and Financial Design. As of May 2015, he has been a Director of Tubacex and, since June 2015, a Director of Corporación Financiera Alba. 

Founding Member and CEO of Global Dominion Access, S.A.

With a degree in Industrial Engineering, he started his professional career at Robotiker. In 1999 he was one of the founding members of Global Dominion Access, S.A. and became CEO in 2004. He was also CEO of ECI Telecom Iberica S.A. and in 2010 he was appointed Technological Manager of the CIE Group.

He is also the chairman of the boards of directors of Beroa Thermal Energy, S.L.U. and Bilcan Global Services, S.L. and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies, among others: Mexicana de Electrónica Industrial S.A. de C.V., Dominion Tecnologías de la Información, S.A. de C.V., D.M. Informática, S.A. de C.V., NearnTechnologies México, S.A. de C.V., Ampliffica México, S.A. de C.V., Chimneys and Refractories International, S.R.L., Refractories & Chimneys Construction Co. Ltd., and Steelcon Chimney Esbjerg A/S.

Executive Chairman Gonvarri Industries & GRI Renewable Industries

Jon Riberas was born in Madrid in 1968. He has a degree in Law (1991) and a degree in Economics and Business Administration (1992) from the Pontificial University of Comillas (ICADE E-3). In 1992, he began his professional career in the Business Development area of Grupo Gonvarri, to later assume functions as CEO. In 2005, he founded ACEK Renewables.

In 2010, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Gonvarri Industries and Co-Chairman of Corporación ACEK, the family holding.

Currently, he is Co-Chairman of the family holding, Executive Chairman of Gonvarri Industries, Executive Chairman of GRI Renewable Industries, Vice president and member of the Board of Directors of Gestamp and member of the Board of Directors of CIE Automotive and DOMINION.

Ms. Arantza Estefanía Larrañaga is a lawyer and her career has been focused on procedural matters and providing daily consultancy services in both civil and criminal law (in particular, regarding compliance matters). She pursued her professional career at Uría Menéndez until January 2019, where she held the position of managing partner of the Bilbao offices for most of her career. Also, organically speaking, she was a member of the Board of Directors, the Professional Practice Management Committee and the Criminal Risk Prevention Committee, and she also held the position of Director of the Company's Litigation, Public, Arbitration and Criminal Law Practice Area. Besides her professional career, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Law at the University of Deusto and has been a member of the group of experts in the Basque Country's Economic and Social Council, an advisory body to the Basque Government and Parliament, since May 2019. She has also been Chair of its Economic Committee since December 2019. On a corporate level, mention should be made of her work as secretary of the board of directors of various companies (she is currently the secretary of Bilbao Exhibition Centre, S.A.) and of her being a member of the Board of Directors of Repsol, S.A., as an independent director, forming part of its Appointments Committee and of its Sustainability Committee, as a member. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of CIE Automotive S.A. She was appointed various times as an arbitrator by the Court of Arbitration of the Bilbao Chamber of Commerce.

He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of the Basque Country with a Masters Degree in Euroforum Internationalisation. He joined CIE Automotive in 1991 as the Financial Director and HR Director at CIE Orbelan. In 1995 he was appointed deputy manager and, in 1998, he became the General Manager of the company. In 2000 he took charge of CIE Brasil, and then CIE Plasfil in 2002. That same year he was appointed global director of CIE Plástico until 2005 when he became the general manager of CIE América. Since 2010, he has been the CEO of Autometal S.A. In 2011 he was appointed director of operations for the entire group and one year later he took up the position of general manager of CIE Automotive. In 2013 the Board of Directors appointed Herrera as CEO of CIE Automotive.

Economics at San Pablo CEU University and FHW Pforzheim in Germany.

He began his professional career at General Motors' European Purchasing Headquarters in Germany, where he held the positions of Liaison GM Spain and Platform Manager. Later, at the Volkswagen Group he held the position of Executive Manager of Global and Forward Sourcing and at SEAT he was a member of the Board of Directors holding the position of Purchasing Manager.

In 2005 he was appointed CEO of Beroa Technology Group, a position he held until it was merged into Dominion in 2013, when he became Manager of the E&C Division, until he retired from executive functions. He is also a founding partner and President of Fullstep Networks SA.

Javier Domingo de Paz has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from Deusto University. (Bilbao). His professional career has been pursued in auditing and he has been a partner for the auditing firm PwC since 1995. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Official Registry of Auditors (ROAC).

He has extensive experience in both industrial and service companies and large groups, many of which are listed on the stock exchange.

In terms of teaching, he has worked as a professor of advanced accounting and auditing at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Deusto (La Comercial).

Amaia Gorostiza Telleria has extensive experience managing industrial and service companies. At present, she is the Chairperson of Sociedad Deportiva Éibar, S.A.D., a member of the Elkargi SGR Economic Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of IMQ.

Mr. Juan Tomás Hernani has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Escuela de Ingenieros de Bilbao, a degree in Business Administration from the University of the Basque Country and a Master's Degree in Science (advanced manufacturing) from Cranfield Institute of Technology. His career spans over 30 years in different public and private sector posts. He is currently the CEO of Satlantis, Chairman of Modalia and a member of the Egile Group’s administrative body.

José María Bergareche holds a degree in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad de Deusto. His professional career commenced in 1975 at "El Correo Español - El Pueblo Vasco", from where he developed the Correo Group (Vocento), first as General Manager and then as CEO. He has been a Director at Telecinco, Banco Guipuzcoano, Zeltia and Diana Capital, among others.

Mrs Paula Zalduegui Egaña holds a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad de Deusto in San Sebastián and holds a masters in Management of International Industrial Projects from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid. She started her business career in the corporate development Department of Aernnova Aerospace. In 2016 she joined Gestamp as CAPEX responsible within the Investment area. She is currently part of the Talent Department in the Gestamp group and since 2021 she is part of the Internal Board of Investments of Elidoza Promoción de Empresas.