Overview

Gender

male

Hernández Zayas graduated in Economics and Business Administration in Bilbao in 1987, and obtained an MBO at the LSFT (London). In 1989 he joined the Audit and Corporate division of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

He spent 7 years at PWC specializing in corporate finance, mergers and takeovers, working with large companies and multinationals as well as important family groups. He is a member of the ROAC (The official Spanish College of Chartered Accountants). In 1995 he moved to the Eguizabal-Paternina Group, one of Spain’s leading wine producers, as Director of Affiliates, responsible for national and international expansion and coordinating the Group’s IPO in 1998.

In 2001 Hernández Zayas was appointed CEO of the Cosimet-Velasco Group, playing a major role in the Company’s diversification strategy and in the consolidation of a large industrial holding, with companies involved in several sectors, including steel, real estate, construction and services. In recent years, Hernández Zayas has been focused on leading development in several new tech and renewable energy entities.