Training and professional experience of the board members

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1 Training and professional experience of the board members Juan Luis Arregui Ciarsolo Juan Luis Arregui Ciarsolo was born in Mallavia (Vizcaya) and is currently chairman of the board of directors as well as chairman of the executive committee of Ence. He has a degree in technical engineering from the Higher School of Engineering of Bilbao, a diploma in numerical control from Wandsdorf (Germany) and a Master s degree in micro-mechanical engineering from Besançon (France). He began his professional career in 1975, founding Gamesa, a company that would later become the Gamesa Group and encompass complementary activities such as aeronautics, robotics, composites, wind turbines, etc. He was chairman of the company until 1995 and is currently vice chairman and member of both the appointments and remunerations committee and the executive committee. In 1994, following the integration of Gamesa with Iberdrola, he became a board member of Iberdrola, was senior deputy chairman and a member of the executive committee until In 1995, he took charge of the Guascor company, a manufacturer of internal combustion engines, complementing the engines with cogeneration installations. In 1998, he created CESA, a corporation dedicated solely to the production of wind energy. In 2001, he founded Foresta Capital, S.L. for the production of hard wood trees. In 2002, he created Foresta Biomasa, which became the world leader in the production of plants with in vitro technology. In 2006, he took the helm of Ence as chairman, a position he still holds today, and without ceasing the company s pulp production, he has diversified its activities with the production of renewable energy through forest biomass. He has also been senior deputy chairman of Cartera Industrial Rea, S.A. since 2008 and is a board member for various funds that invest in energy and activities related to modern technology. Ignacio de Colmenares y Brunet Ignacio de Colmenares y Brunet was born in Madrid and is currently member of the board of directors, the executive committee and the committee for development of territorial forest development plans. He is also managing director of Ence and president of ASPAPEL (Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers). He has an undergraduate degree in law from the Central University of Barcelona and a Master s degree in Economics and Business Management from IESE. Ignacio brings extensive experience in the steel and renewable energy industries, having helped to develop international business projects based on revenue growth, investment optimisation, process improvements and cost control as a way of increasing competitiveness. Pedro López Jiménez Pedro López Jiménez was born in Malaga and is an external proprietary director at Ence. Grupo Empresarial Ence, S.A. R.M.M, h F.33. T general y 1.720, secc. 3ª libro sociedades. N.I.F.: A

2 A civil engineer by training, he has been director of hydroelectric plant construction at Hidroeléctrica Española, a board member and general manager of Empresarios Agrupados, a board member of the National Institute of Industry, undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Works and City Planning, general manager of ports, a board member of Unión Fenosa and Enher and president of Endesa. He was also the founder of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and the Business Federation for the Electrical Industry (FEIE), a member of the board of governors of the Spanish Energy Club, a board member of Atlas Copco, S.A., Lingotes Especiales, S.A. and CEPSA as well as deputy chairman of Indra. He is currently board member and member of the executive committee of ACS Actividades de Construcciones y Servicios, S.A., a board member of ACS Servicios y Concesiones, S.A., deputy chairman of Dragados, S.A., chairman of the Teratest Group and a member of the board of governors of the University of Alcalá de Henares. Javier Arregui Abendivar Javier Arregui Abendivar was born in Durango and is currently the legal representative of Retos Operativos XXI, S.L., which is a member of the board of directors of Ence, and is member of the company s appointments and remunerations committee. He has a degree in business administration from Saint Louis University (Missouri, United States) and began his professional career in 1992 in the sales department of the Guascor Group, occupying a variety of positions until he was ultimately named managing director in Argentina in In 2002, he returned to Spain, where until 2005 he held management positions in the Séché Group, was member of the boards of directors of Cesa, the Guascor Group and Foresta Capital and was a controller and chief procurement officer for Campo Noble, S.A. He is currently holds the position of sole administrator of the Foresta Group. Pascual Fernández Martínez Pascual Fernández Martínez was born in Albacete and is currently member of the board of directors of Ence as well as member and secretary of the company s appointments and remunerations committee. He has a doctorate in economics and business and has carried out his professional career primarily in the public administration, both as a professor and researcher, at the Autónoma University of Madrid, Madrid s Rey Juan Carlos University and the University of Valladolid, and in management for the autonomous communities of Castilla y León and Madrid as well as for the Ministry of the Economy and Treasury and the Ministry of Environment. He is a lecturer of applied economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, a lecturer in the Executive Master in Public Administration (EMPA) program at the Instituto de Empresa Business School, a lecturer in the Master s program in Infrastructure and Public Service Management of the School of Civil Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrd;, director of the Economy of Madrid Centre

3 for Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, chairman of the Economics and Environment Commission of the Association of Economists of Madrid, and member of the Association of European Conjuncture Institutes (l Association D Instituts Européens de Conjoncture Economique AIECE). He has served on the boards of directors of a number of companies, including Sodical, Renfe, instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Gran Telescopio de Canarias (chairman from 1997 to 2001), Sociedad Gestora de Planes de Pensiones de Caja Madrid and Gamesa (chairman of the appointments and remunerations committee from 2006 to 2010). Javier Echenique Landiribar Javier Echenique Landiribar was born in Isaba (Navarre) and is currently an external proprietary director at Ence and is member of Ence s executive and audit committees. He has a degree in economic and actuarial sciences and has been a board member and managing director of Allianz-Ercos and managing director of the BBVA Group. He is currently vice chairman of Banco Sabadell, S.A., chairman of Banco Guipuzcoano, S.A. and a board member of REPSOL YPF S.A., ACS Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A., ACS Servicios, Comunicaciones y Energía, S.L., Telefónica Móviles México y Celistics S.L. and Calcinor, S.A. He is also a member of the advisory council of Telefónica Europa and a delegate of the board of Telefónica, S.A. in the Basque Country and trustee of the Novia Salcedo Foundation and the Altuna Foundation. Jesús Ruano Mochales Jesús Ruano Mochales was born in Madrid and is currently the legal representative of Norteña Patrimonial, S.L., which is a member of the board of directors of Ence, and is member of the company s audit committee. He has a degree in economics and business from CUNEF and a specialisation in finance from the University of Deusto. He held the position of assistant manager at the Chase Manhattan Bank from 1997 to 2000 and the position of deputy director of mergers and acquisitions at N M Rothschild & Sons (investment banking) from 2000 to He is currently director of the Investees division of Cajastur and member of the management and financial management committees. He is also the representative of Cajastur on the board of directors of various companies, such as Itinere, Telecable, CAPSA, General de Alquiler de Maquinaria, S.A. and Sedes. José Carlos Del Álamo Jiménez

4 José Carlos Del Álamo Jiménez currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence. He has a degree in forestry from the and a diploma from ESADE. He is also a lecturer in the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Master Degree at the Environmental Sciences University Institute, part of Madrid s Complutense University, a lecturer in the Environmental Project Engineering Master degree at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and a lecturer in Carolina Foundation s Higher Course on Forestry Management Policies and Instruments as well as a professor at the San Pablo CEU University and other academic institutions. He has held positions of great responsibility in both central government, for which he served as Director-General of Nature Conservation (Ministry of Environment), and at the autonomous community level, where he founded the Regional Ministry of Environment of Galicia and was board member from 1997 to 2003 and Director General of Forest and the Natural Environment from 1990 to He was also vice chairman of the Autonomous National Parks Authority, president of the trusteeship of the Islas Atlánticas National Park, member of the Environmental Advisory Board of the Ministry of Environment and chairman of the Galician Environmental Council. He is also president of the Professional Union of Engineering Associations (UPCI), president and dean of the College and Association of Forestry Engineers, secretary of the Forests and Climate Change forum, president of the Environmental Forum for Economic and Social Progress and a board member of the Regional Hunting Council of the regional government of Castilla y León. He is currently chairman and CEO of Tecnoma, S.A., an environmental consulting and engineering firm, chairman of Tecnoma Energía Sostenible, S.A., chairman of Tecnoma Aprovechamientos Energéticos, S.L. and chairman of Estadística y Servicios, S.A., all of which belong to the TYPSA Group, of which he is also a board member. Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández was born in Segovia, holds the position of external board member of Ence, is chairman of the company s appointments and remunerations committee and is a member of the executive committee. With a degree in law and economic and business from the Pontifica de Comillas University, he began his professional career at JPMorgan where he held various positions in the company s financial markets division from 1986 to In 1996, he joined the Telefónica Group as its CFO. In 1998, he was named president of TPI- Páginas Amarillas, and in 2000, he was made managing director of the group, a position he held through to the end of In 2002, he was named managing director of the Credit Suisse Group in Spain and Portugal. He currently holds the position of Chief Financial Officer to the managing director of the Prisa Group and is a member of the board of directors Telecomunicaciones de Sao Paulo. He is also the trustee of the Comillas University Foundation, the +Familia Foundation and the Fernando Abril-Martorell Foundation.

5 Gustavo Matías Clavero Gustavo Matías Clavero was born in Salamanca, currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence and is a member of the company s appointments and remunerations committee. He has a doctorate in economics and business from the Madrid s Universidad Autónoma (UAM 1993) and a degree in information sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (1977). He is a lecturer of international economic organisation at the UAM, where he has been teaching since 1986, and in the Balance Sheet Analysis Master Degree of the Instituto de Empresa Business School (1982). He is a member of various expert panels on economic client and economic consensus, an evaluator of three scientific publications and a regular contributor to the magazine Consejeros and the digital publication Intercampus. As a consultant and researcher, he is primarily concerned with the new economy of information and knowledge (about which he taught doctoral courses for ten years at UAM and has published a dozen books and pamphlets), healthcare, education and sustainable development. He was a visiting professor at CUNEF for three years, at Universitas Nebrissensis for another three years, at the European Business School, at the School of Industrial Organisation (Escuela de Organización Industrial) and at the School of Telecommunications Engineers (Escuela de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación). He has codirected or taught summer courses at UAM, the Complutense University, the Universidad del País Vasco, Valladolid University, UIMP and Segovia universities. A managing advisor to the in Telematics Master program (Caixa Galicia), he has also directed a dozen courses for the European Social Fund and others on sustainable development and its indicators. He has been a member of the Group for Regulation of Telecommunications (GRETEL), vice president of the Spanish Telecommuting Association, director of the Spanish Association of Telecommunications and Information Technology Law, a economics journalist for Europa Press, El País and Gaceta de los Negocios as well as a columnist for El Mundo-Nueva Economía, media for which he has published more than 3,000 articles. In 1978, he was decorated by royal decree as an officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit and has received a number of national awards from the National Institute of Statistics and for economic journalism. José Guillermo Zubía Guinea José Guillermo Zubía Guinea was born in Seville, currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence, and is a member of the company s executive committee and chairman of the audit committee. He has a degree in law from the Madrid s Complutense University. He has also studied economics at the Complutense University and taxation at the Centre for Economics and Tax Studies (Centro de Estudios Económicos y Tributarios).

6 He has been a business owner and consultant and board member for various public and private firms. He was secretary general of the Alava Business Union (SEA) from 1979 to He was general secretary of the Basque business confederation (Confebask) from October 1995 to March He also regularly participates in various courses and conferences at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo university, the summer courses of El Escorial and the summer university of the País Vasco University. He is currently also a member of the standing committee at the Andalusia School of Economics. He is also a member of the Economic and Social Council of Spain and its economic and labour relations committees. José Manuel Serra Peris José Manuel Serra Peris was born in Valencia, currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence and is a member of the company s audit committee. He has a degree in law from the Valencia University (1981) and is a state attorney (joined in 1984). He was active in the administration, first as a state attorney in the regional office of the Spanish treasury in Valencia and in the courts of the Valencian regional government (1986 to 1996), and later held various positions in the state administration, primarily in the Ministry of Industry and Energy, where he was general technical secretary ( ), undersecretary (1998) and finally Secretary of State for Industry and Energy ( ), a position he left at his own request. He has also been president of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and president of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (CIEMAT) and president of the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI). He has sat on the boards of directors of Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) and Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Patrimoniales (SEPPA), companies responsible for the privatisation of public companies such as, Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A., Endesa, Red Eléctrica de España, S.A., Uralita, S.A. and Cable y Televisión de Cataluña, S.A. (MENTA) of the Auna Group. Currently, in addition to consulting and providing legal advice, he is a member of, among others, the boards of directors of Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. and Bankia, S.A. Pedro Barato Triguero Pedro Barato Triguero was born in Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) and currently holds the position of independent external board member of Ence. He has a degree in law and has been a member of the National Confederation of Farmers and Livestock Owners since 1978 and the national president of the

7 Agricultural Association of Young Farmers (ASAJA) since He is also a board member of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE), a member of the presidium of the Committee of Agricultural Organisations (COPA) of the European Union, member of the CAP advisory committee of the European Commission, president of the Inter-trade Organisation of Spanish Olive Oil, president of the Occupational Accident Insurance Association (AMAT), president of the National Confederation of Beet and Sugar Cane Growers and president of the Spanish Federation of Self-employed Persons (CEAT). He was a member of the European Economic and Social Committee from 1997 to 2007 and a member of the Spanish Economic and Social Council from 1991 to The company board members have not been convicted for fraud nor been subject to official public incrimination or sanction by statutory or regulatory authorities. They further have not been declared unfit by a court for their actions as a member of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of an issuer or for their actions in the management of the affairs of an issuer in the past five years. There are also no family relationships between the members of the board of directors, except for the parent-child relationship between the representative of Retos Operativos XXI, S.L., Javier Arregui Abendivar, and Juan Luis Arregui Ciarsolo.