Mr. Ramiro S�nchez de Ler�n Garc�a-Ovies serves as our General Secretary and Secretary to our Board of Directors. He began his career in Arthur Andersen, first working for its audit department and later for its tax department. In 1982, he became an Abogado del Estado and started working for the Treasury Internal Revenue in Madrid (Delegaci�n de Hacienda de Madrid). Afterwards he was assigned to the State Secretariat for the European Communities and later to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He has been General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of Elos�a, S.A., Tabacalera, S.A., Altadis, S.A. and Xfera M�viles, S.A. He has also been teaching in ICADE, Instituto de Empresa and Escuela de Hacienda P�blica. |