Fernando Abril-Martorell, new member of the Board of Directors of the Sener Group

The Sener engineering and technology group has appointed Fernando Abril-Martorell as a member of its Board of Directors. Abril-Martorell will provide his extensive experience in sectors with a high technological and innovative component for the benefit of the Group and its stakeholders.

Sener is a leading supplier of innovative solutions to complex engineering and technology projects. It currently employs nearly 3,000 professionals on five continents, experts in the aerospace and defense, energy, marine and digital markets, as well as in mobility and infrastructure. In this last field, Sener strengthened its value proposition in May 2023 with the acquisition of the company Quark, a leader in data center engineering.

The appointment will allow Abril-Martorell to share his knowledge and experience leading and advising top companies that, like Sener, face major technological challenges in the sectors in which they operate.

In the words of Abril-Martorell, this appointment brings with it “enormous responsibility and a challenge to collaborate in a company I have always admired for its technological vocation, its enormous human talent and its ethics and social commitment.”

Since June 2022, Abril-Martorell has been the CEO of Urbaser, a task he combines with his duties as a director at Ence and Adevinta. He was previously the Chairman of Indra (2015-2021), CEO of Grupo Prisa (2011-2014) and CEO of Credit Suisse in Spain and Portugal (2005-2011). He also held the positions of Chief Financial Officer (1997-2000) and CEO (2000-2003) of the Telefónica Group, where he landed after eleven years at JP Morgan offices in Madrid, New York and London. Abril-Martorell has a degree in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (Madrid).