Manuel Polanco Moreno
Member of the Board of Directors
Manuel Polanco Moreno is a Member of the Board of Directors.
Manuel Polanco holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has a thorough understanding of PRISA, where he has spent his entire professional career. He began his career in Latin America, a region which has long proved crucial for the development of the Group.
From 1991 to 1993, he headed Santillana in Chile and Peru. He was subsequently appointed Managing Director of the Mexican newspaper La Prensa, and was instrumental in the launch of the American edition of El País in Mexico City — the first Spanish newspaper to be published simultaneously in both countries, which quickly set the standard for international reporting in Latin America. In 1996, based in Miami, he took charge of Santillana's international operations across the Americas, a period that saw the creation of the Group's final offices in the region and strengthened coordination between country offices.
Back in Spain in 1999, he became president of the commercial division of the entire Group through GDM (Gerencia de Medios), and a year later was named president of GMI (Gestión de Medios Impresos), which brought together the titles Cinco Días and AS, magazines, and new investments in regional press. In 2005, after the acquisition of Media Capital by PRISA, he was appointed CEO of Portugal's leading television and audiovisual production company. Here, he oversaw a period of international expansion into other Portuguese-speaking markets, consolidating the Portuguese group's leadership in television through TVI and in audiovisual production through Plural.
In 2009, he returned to Spain as General Manager for Business at PRISA, subsequently overseeing the Group's television interests, including Canal+ until its sale to Telefónica in 2015, and leading the launch of PRISA's production and video division, while serving as Deputy Chairman of the Group. Polanco has been a director of PRISA since 2001 and was a member of its Executive Committee from 2008 to 2023. On 1 January 2018, he took over as Chairman of the Board of Directors of PRISA, a post he held until December of that year.
Category:
External director appointed by Timón SA.
First and last appointments:
- 19 April 2001
- 27 June 2023
Boards of Directors of other listed companies to which he serves (*):
- None
(*) Excluding: (i) holding or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.
Boards of Directors of other non- listed companies to which he serves (*):
- CEO of Rucandio, S.A.
- Deputy Chairman of Timón, S.A.
- Director of Rucandio Inversiones SICAV.
- Director of Qualitas Venture Capital, S.A. S.C.R
- Director of Tropical Hoteles, S.A.
- Director of Princesa Goya Investments, S.L.
(*) Excluding: (i) holding or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.
Other paid activities:
The director does not perform other paid activities different to those above declared.