Jesús Caínzos

Director & Chairman of the Corporate Strategy Committee

Nationality: Spanish

Year of birth: 1947

Mr. Caínzos is a graduate in Economic Science from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He pursued postgraduate studies at several International Universities and Business Schools.

He was the founder of JM Cainzos & Asociados, a strategic and financial consultancy firm with an interest in corporate governance and corporate transactions. He has also been Vice-Chairman of the BBVA bank and Chairman of several of its committees. He was International Vice-Chairman of Johnson & Johnson and Managing Director of several companies including Lilly (Spain and Portugal) and Elizabeth Arden.

He is Chairman of the Institute of Company Directors and one of a group of experts trained by the government of Spain to set in motion the new Corporate Governance Code for listed companies.