Fundaci·n Telef·nica has appointed Enrique Go·i Beltr·n de Garizurieta as its new Executive Chairman. Fundaci·n Telef·nica, whose purpose is to make a more humane world by promoting inclusive digital development, works to respond to four major challenges: reducing the educational gap, improving employability, fostering social and digital integration and promoting art, culture and thought.
Fundaci·n Telef·nica is committed to technology as a means for social integration and evolution through which to expand skills, provide more opportunities and reduce inequalities. In this new stage, led by Enrique Go·i, it also aspires to become the European benchmark in the promotion of strategies that enhance technological competitiveness and social impact, consolidating Spain as the epicentre of debate and action in responsible technological innovation.
Enrique Go·i pointed out that we have in Europe 'the talent, the capacity and the responsibility to promote a model of technological development that is both ethical and competitive at a global level, it is our time'. Fundaci·n Telef·nica will strengthen its role as a catalyst for public policies and business strategies aimed at strengthening the Spanish and European technological innovation ecosystem and ensuring that it is aligned with the digital rights of EU citizens.
Together with the new president, the Board of Trustees of Fundaci·n Telef·nica is made up as follows. Ex officio trustees (in accordance with their position at Telef·nica, S.A.): Marc Thomas Murtra Millar, Emilio Gayo Rodr·guez; Eduardo Navarro de Carvalho; ·lvaro Echevarr·a Ar·valo; Laura Abasolo Garc·a de Baquedano; Trinidad Jim·nez Garc·a-Herrera; Marta Machicot Arbizu; Juan Azcue Vich; Sebasti·n Muriel Herrero and, as Elected Trustees: Enrique Go·i Beltr·n de Garizurieta (Chairman); Javier Nadal Ari·o; Javier Solana Madariaga; Julio Linares L·pez; Luc·a Figar de Lacalle; Carmen Moren·s Giles; Carmen Garc·a de Andr·s; Non-Trustee Secretary: Pablo de Carvajal Gonz·lez; Non-Patron Deputy Secretary: Isabel Salazar P·ramo.
Luis Angel Prendes Arroyo remains in his position as managing director of the entity.
Enrique Go·i Beltr·n de Garizurieta is deputy to the president of Criteria Caixa and president of the Hermes Institute, tasks that he will continue to perform. As founder of the Hermes Foundation, he also chairs its Board of Trustees, an institution committed to the promotion of rights in the digital sphere.
He holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra and a PADE from IESE. He studied Strategic Management at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Harvard Business School. He began his professional career at Barclays Bank and later became Deputy General Manager and CEO of the MutuAvenir group of companies. In 1996 he joined Agrupaci·n Mutua as Deputy Director and in 1998 he was appointed Deputy General Manager of the Group. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager of the Corporate Business Group of Caja Navarra and since 2002 he has been General Manager of Caja de Ahorros de Navarra. In 2010, together with the directors of Caja Canarias and Caja Burgos, he founded the Banca C·vica Group as Executive Chairman, a group to which Caja Sol later joined. Enrique Go·i has been Co-Chairman and CEO of the Banca C·vica Group and CEO of Caja Navarra. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and of the advisory committee of the Latam Global Leadership and Competitiveness Program at Georgetown University.
