The Board of Directors of Telef\u00f3nica S.A. has today unanimously approved, at the proposal of the Nominating, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee, the co-opted appointments of M\u00f3nica Rey Amado and Anna Mart\u00ednez Bala\u00f1\u00e1 as new independent directors of the company.<\/p>\n
The Board has accepted the resignations of Ver\u00f3nica Pascual Bo\u00e9 and Mar\u00eda Rotondo Urcola from their positions as independent directors of Telef\u00f3nica, for professional and personal reasons, respectively, and with the aim of contributing to the orderly renewal process of Telef\u00f3nica\u2019s Board of Directors. The Board of Directors has thanked Ver\u00f3nica Pascual Bo\u00e9 and Mar\u00eda Rotondo Urcola for their services throughout their respective terms of office.<\/p>\n
Both will remain linked to the Telef\u00f3nica Group, as Ver\u00f3nica Pascual Bo\u00e9 will remain a member of the Advisory Board of Telef\u00f3nica Tech, and Mar\u00eda Rotondo Urcola will be appointed a member of the Advisory Board of Telef\u00f3nica Spain.<\/p>\n
M\u00f3nica Rey Amado has extensive experience as an executive director with more than 25 years of experience in digital transformation projects, corporate strategy, merger and acquisition execution, and operational excellence in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. She also has extensive experience on the boards of directors of various organisations, with a strategic focus on governance, digital innovation and risk management. She holds a degree in Business Administration from Boston University, completed the General Electric Financial Management Program in the United Kingdom and the United States, and subsequently attended the Authentic Leadership Programme at Harvard Business School. During her career, she has held various management and executive positions at General Electric, McKinsey, Grupo Prisa, Dracma Galicia and Atento, where she is currently Regional Director for EMEA.<\/p>\n
Anna Mart\u00ednez Bala\u00f1\u00e1 has experience in general management, team management and business project development in the cultural and service management sectors. Throughout her career, she has focused on optimising operations, structuring processes and launching initiatives with a strategic vision. She holds a degree in Business Management from ESADE Business School and an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from ESADE Business School. Throughout her career, she has been the founder and CEO of Sheltair and is currently the CEO of Bala\u00f1\u00e1 en viu and the CEO of Marianna en viu.<\/p>\n
With these appointments, the Board of Directors continues to be composed of 15 members, maintaining its 40% female representation and a majority of independent directors.<\/p>\n
Appointment of members to the Committees <\/p>\n
At the same time, the Board appointed M\u00f3nica Rey Amado as a member of the Sustainability and Regulation Committee, replacing Mar\u00eda Rotondo Urcola, and Ana Mar\u00eda Sala Andr\u00e9s as a member of the Nominating, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee, replacing Ver\u00f3nica Pascual Bo\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Board of Directors of Telef\u00f3nica S.A. has today unanimously approved, at the proposal of the Nominating, Remuneration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[156,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-1924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-telefonica","8":"tag-analysts","9":"tag-telefonica"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}