Education
MBA from New York University (United States of America); degree in industrial engineering, Barcelona University (Spain)
Career
Accounts Director, International Flavours and Fragances (1982-1986); Financial Analyst at the First Boston Corporation in New York (1986-1989); Vice-President and partner of S.G. Warburg and Co. (1989-1991); CEO and founding partner of GBS Finanzas S.A. (1991-); Vice-President of Real Automóvil Club de Catalunya (RACC); Member of Advisory Board of Aon Gil y Carvajal; Member of the board of PortAventura
Sports practised
Skiing, golf, running, tennis
Sports administration
Member of the Spanish National Olympic Committee (1989-) and of its New Sources of Finance Committee (1998-); member of the Board of the Spanish Modern Pentathlon Federation (1980-1990); member of the Board (1984-1996) then first Vice-President of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) (1996-)
IOC History
Member of the Executive Board (2012-2016); IOC Vice-President (2016-); Member of the following Commissions: Coordination for the XX Olympic Winter Games Turin 2006 (2002-2006), Marketing (2004-), Sport for All (2006-2014), Coordination for the XXII Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 (2007-2014), TV Rights and New Media (2014-2015), Olympic Solidarity (2014-), Communications (2015-), Coordination for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 (2016-); Member of the Board of directors of Olympic Channel Services S.A., Switzerland (2015-); Delegate Member for Broadcast rights - Europe (2015-); Chair of the Board of directors of Olympic Channel Services S.L., Spain (2015-)