José María Benavent Valero

José María Benavent Valero has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Management Development Program (PDD) from IESE, and AMP from the MIT Business School (Cambridge, MA, USA). Benavent began his professional career in 1989 as an analyst in the research service of the Bank of Spain until he joined Caixabank in 1994, where he held various functions in the risk department until later assuming that of risk manager. In 1998, and on the occasion of the liberalization of the telecommunications sector in Spain, he was asked to participate in the launch of a Telco company, R-Cable , of which he was CFO until 2015, the year in which he continued his professional career in the sector as CFO of the Euskaltel Group. Benavent has been distinguished with the Best CFO award in the VI edition of the Financial Excellence Awards granted by the Spanish Association of Company Financiers (ASSET). In 2018 he assumed the position of independent member of the Board of Directors of ABANCA Servicios Financieros and of its Audit and Risk Committee . In June 2019, he joined the Nueva Pescanova Group as a director and in April 2020, he was appointed CEO of the company .