Ignacio S. Galán

BIO

Chairman & CEO

Born in Salamanca on 30 September 1950, married and with four children, Ignacio Galán graduated as an Industrial Engineer from the Engineering School (ICAI) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid). He also graduated in Business Administration and Foreign Trade from ICADE at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) and in General Business Administration and Foreign Trade from the School of Industrial Organisation (EOI) in Madrid. He speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

He holds the post of chairman and chief executive officer of Iberdrola and chairman of the subholdings of the Iberdrola group in the United Kingdom (ScottishPower), in the United States (Avangrid*, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and in Brazil (Neoenergia**).

He has run leading companies in state-of-the art industrial and technological sectors, where he profoundly changed their profile and applied his far-sighted approach  and his ability to anticipate the new needs of the different sectors. In 2019 Harvard Business Review selected him among the top five CEOs in the world.

The commitment to sound and sustainably projects; the promotion of good corporate governance, efficiency and financial soundness; prudence in balance sheet management; growth with profitability; and the commitment to strong ethical and professional values have characterized Ignacio Galán's management style throughout his long career. To achieve the strategic objectives, he has always given priority to the setting up of teams that are culturally integrated and focused on a common project.

A good communicator, open and friendly, Galán is convinced of the key importance of motivation for achieving an enriching contribution of the experiences, cultures and diverse knowledge of all human teams, which he regards as the main asset of any company. An untiring worker with firm convictions, once the goals to be achieved have been set, he is as demanding with himself as he is with his teams when it comes to accomplishing them.

Francisco Martínez-Córcoles

BIO

Business CEO of the Iberdrola Group

Industrial Engineer specialising in Electricity from the ICAI (Universidad de Comillas, Madrid) and Master in Business Management from the IESE (Universidad de Navarra).

Group Business CEO.

He worked at Arthur Andersen and Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad before joining Hidroeléctrica Española and -after the merger with Iberduero- Iberdrola. He has held several executive positions in the company and has spearheaded the development of the areas of generation, retail and natural gas in the national and international sphere.

Among other positions, he is chairman of Iberdrola España, S.A., and Iberdrola Energía Internacional, S.A., as well as a director of Iberdrola México, S.A. de C.V

José Sainz Armada

BIO

Chief Financial, Control & Resources Officer

Graduate in Law and Business Administration from the Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ICADE) at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, and MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France).

He has worked with J.P. Morgan, Argentaria Bolsa, Banco de Negocios Argentaria, Argentaria and BBVA.

Among other positions, he is currently chairman of Iberdrola Inmobiliaria, S.A.U and Remunerations and Successions Committee of Neoenergia S.A.

Agustín Delgado Martín

BIO

Chief Innovation and Sustainability Officer of the Iberdrola Group

Agustín Delgado (Spain, 1972) holds an MSC in Industrial Engineering from the Escuela Superior Industrial (ICAI) of Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He has also completed the School of Management Programme designed specifically for Iberdrola by IESE and the Global Leadership Programme at IMD.

A professional with twenty years of experience, he began his career in different companies from the rail and energy sectors. He joined Iberdrola in 2006 as Innovation Director. In 2010 he was appointed Chief Innovation and Sustainability Officer for the Iberdrola Group. He is also responsible for the venture capital program in IBERDROLA (PERSEO), where he coordinates PERSEO´s investment in technology companies related to new sustainable energies and business models.

Former member of the Gamesa board of directors and some other startup companies. He is also member of the World Economic Forum, Global Future Council for Advanced Energy Technlogies

Dharik Mallapragada

BIO

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative

Dharik Mallapragada joined the MIT Energy Initiative in May 2018. Prior to MIT, Dharik worked at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research, where he contributed to research on power systems modeling, life cycle assessment and also led a research program to study energy trends in developing countries. Through his PhD and nearly 5 years of research experience in the chemicals and energy industry, Dharik has worked on a range of sustainability-focused research topics such as designing light-weight composite materials, carbon-efficient biofuel pathways as well as developing novel tools for energy systems analysis. His research interests include the design of novel energy conversion processes and their integration into the energy system. At MIT, Dharik is working on advancing power systems modeling tools to study questions around renewables integration and economy-wide electrification.

Dharik holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He received a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Mario Ruiz-Tagle

BIO

Chief Operating Officer Neonergia

Law graduate in 1990 and post-graduate in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 2002, was appointed Institutional Relations Director at Iberdrola Energia do Brasil. In 2004, was nominated Director of Business in Brazil for Iberdrola S.A. and in 2010 held the position of Country Manager at Iberdrola Brazil S.A. Currently is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Neoenergia's subsidiaries, and member of the Board of Directors of Neoenergia.

Solange Maria Pinto Ribeiro

BIO

Deputy Chief Operating Officer Neoenergia

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Master’s Degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She was a guest researcher at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, in London

Joined Neoenergía 2004 as Executive Regulation and Environment Officer.

From 2012 to 2017, she held the position of Company’s CEO. Currently Vice-Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the National System Operator - ONS. She is a member to different economic and social development organizations and has built an uprising career in the Brazilian electric sector by serving high leadership offices in major companies, such as Chef and Eletropaulo. Also acted as a consultant in the National Economic Research Associates, in Washington, DC.

Sandro Marcondes

BIO

Chief Financial Officer Neoenergia

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a major in business from the Rotterdam School of Management. He also attended an MBA in Strategic Planning by FGV and specializations in Banking by national and international institutions.

Abroad, he took over the Deputy Management of New York and the General Management of Paris. Back in Brazil, he held the boards of Legal, International Business, Corporate Banking, Controllership. Prior to joining the Neoenergia Group's Financial and Investor Relations Department, Sandro Marcondes has been Banco do Brasil's Capital Market and Project Finance Director since 2013.

In July, 2016 assumes the position of CFO at Holding Neoenergia.