Rosauro Varo Rodríguez
Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors
Member of the Delegated Commission
Member of the Nominations, Compensation and Corporate Governance Commission
Rosauro Varo has a degree in Law from the University of Seville and has been successfully forging a career in business and entrepreneurship for 20 years. He now oversees his range of business initiatives through GAT Inversiones, of which he is Chair. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Acciona Energía and is a member of the Board of Directors of the business association Círculo de Empresarios del Sur de España (CESUR).
Varo was previously deputy chair of the telecommunications company PepePhone and a member of various Boards of Directors, including El León de El Español Publicaciones, SA, the publishing company behind digital newspaper El Español and the business and finance portal Invertia. He’s a lecturer for the Masters in Finance and Banking at the Pablo Olavide University of Seville and the Senior Management Program of Leading Companies and Institutions of the San Telmo Business School, where he addresses subjects such as business mergers and acquisitions as well as the digital economy.
He channels his social commitment through the ALALÁ Foundation, which sets the standard for the development of social integration projects for the disadvantaged in southern Spain.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Madrid’s Royal Theater as well as the of the CYD Foundation on behalf of Grupo PRISA.
In June 2022, he was honored with the Spain Entrepreneur of the Year Award, given by the consulting firm EY, after winning the same firm’s prize for Andalusia, Extremadura, Ceuta and Melilla the previous year.
Category:
Independent
First and last appointments:
- 22 December 2020
- 29 June 2021
Boards of Directors of other listed companies on which he serves (*):
- Director of ACCIONA ENERGÍA.
(*) 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 on which he serves (*):
- Chairman of GAT HEADQUARTERS SL.
- Board Member of other Grupo PRISA companies.
(*) 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.