Organization
- Presidency
Chairman and CEO
José Luis Curbelo RaneroJose L. Curbelo has a wide experience in COFIDES, since he was the Director of its Investment Department between the years 1999 and 2009. During his professional career he also held different positions, such as Deputy Chairman for Development Strategies and Public Policies and Chief Economist in CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, CEO at the Basque Institute of Competitiveness (Orkestra), Head for the Small Business Development Unity of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), etc.- General Secretariat Division
Secretary
Ana Victoria Fernández Sáinz de la MazaAna Victoria Fernández Sáinz de la Maza holds a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has pursued various specialisation programmes in commercial, corporate, insolvency, arbitration and procedural law, among others. She has spent most of her career at COFIDES, after joining in 1997. She has been the company’s general secretary since 2007, responsible for corporate legal advice, the regulatory section, procedural area and general services. She is also the coordinator of the independent bodies for regulatory compliance, prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and prevention of criminal liability. She is the non-executive secretary of the board of directors and the Foreign Investment Fund (FIEX) and Fund for Foreign Investment Operations for Small and Medium Enterprises (FONPYME) executive committees. - General Management
General Manager
Rodrigo Madrazo García de LomanaRodrigo Madrazo was appointed General Manager of COFIDES in August 2018. He entered Spain´s Civil Service in 2001 as a State Economist. Between July 2015 and August 2018 he was Director General for Economic Policy in the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Before 2015, Mr. Madrazo held different positions in that Directorate General for Economic Policy, including Deputy Director General between 2012 and 2015. Previously he worked in the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce as Senior Advisor in the department of Industry. Between 2007 and 2012, he headed the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador.- Marketing and Business Development Division
Deputy director
Ana Cebrián ParrondoAna Cebrián is an economics and business graduate from Comillas Pontifical University, ICADE-ICAI, Madrid, Spain and has an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands. Prior to joining COFIDES, she held positions of responsibility in the financial areas of the REALE Seguros insurance company, pharma firm Eli Lilly and food industry player Vensy. She has worked at COFIDES since 2002, where she has held different positions linked to operation origin, analysis and structuring. She is currently the deputy director of the Marketing and Business Development Division. - Investment and Portfolio Management Division
Deputy director
Miguel Ángel Ladero SantosMiguel Ángel Ladero holds a law degree from the University of Salamanca and an MBA from IESE (University of Navarre). He joined COFIDES in 2002, where he has since held positions of responsibility in various areas, such as Legal Consultancy, Investment and Operations. Currently, as deputy director of Operations, he is responsible for commercial work with recurrent clients, the analysis, structuring and formalisation of operations, and the follow-up of portfolio transactions carried out with both COFIDES and FIEX and FONPYME funds. - Risk Division
Deputy director
Consuelo Díaz MartínezConsuelo Díaz has extensive experience at COFIDES, which she joined in 2005 as deputy director of the Economic and Finance Division. Since then, she has held different management positions in the company, including the Project Monitoring, Investment and, finally, Risk divisions. A trained economist, her career has always been developed in the field of finance, where she has had different responsibilities in institutions such as the International Financial Analysts group’s School of Applied Finance, the MEFF Institute (today BME), the AB Asesores Bursátiles group and the Sociedad de Intermediación de Activos Financieros, S.V. securities company. - Economic and Finance Division
Deputy director
Héctor Turiel ValdésHéctor Turiel is an economics and psychology graduate of the Autonomous University of Madrid and has a master’s in international business from the Norwegian National School of Economics and Trade (NHH, Bergen). Most of his career has taken place in the financial field, where he previously held positions of different responsibilities at Banesto, Aresbank and PwC. He has been with COFIDES since 1997. - Financing for Development and European Affairs Division
Deputy director
María Vidales PicazoMaría Vidales is a commercial technician and State economist with an undergraduate degree in business and a PhD in economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She held various positions at the Ministry of Economy as of 2008, as head of service at the Directorate General for Economic Policy, deputy sub-director general at the Directorate General for International Financing and as an advisory member of the Secretariat General for the Treasury and Financial Policy. She has worked at COFIDES as deputy director of the Financing for Development and European Affairs division since February 2015. - Corporate and Sustainability Division
Deputy director
Fernando Aceña MorenoFernando Aceña has a university background in law, international business management and development cooperation. He held various positions of responsibility in investment management and business cooperation at ICEX as of 1990. He served as an industrial cooperation consultant for the Centre for Enterprise Development (CDE) in Spain from 1993 to 2001 and has held positions of responsibility at COFIDES in the business and corporate development areas since 2007. - Information Technologies Division
Head of division
Alejandro Colino BarreñaAlejandro Colino is a telecommunications engineer with master’s degrees in business intelligence and technological innovation, multilateral project management and project management from the University of George Washington. He has developed his professional career in technology consulting and in the creation, coordination and supervision of digital projects for clients such as Vodafone España, Altadis, Reale Seguros, Centros Comerciales Carrefour S.A., Google Spain, Sanitas S.A. De Seguros, Shiseido (Decléor), Nivea, Loterías del Estado, Cepsa, FCC Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas S.A., Governa, Magnolia TV, McCANN Worldgroup, MRM Worldwide, Elastic Rights, Vector Four, SGAE, Durán and others related to the fashion industry in Spain. He has been the deputy director of the Information Technologies division at COFIDES since November 2014.
- Marketing and Business Development Division
- Control, Internal Audit and Quality Division
Deputy director
María Victoria de Luis DuránMaría Victoria de Luis has worked with COFIDES since 2008, developing different responsibilities in the Operations Monitoring Division and as its deputy director between 2010 and 2012. She has been the deputy director of the Control, Internal Audit and Quality division since its creation in 2012. She has more than 20 years’ professional experience in mergers and acquisitions at Grupo BNP Paribas and two years in financial auditing at Ernst & Whitney. María Victoria is an economics and business graduate from the Complutense University of Madrid’s College of Financial Studies and has an MBA from IESE (Barcelona, University of Navarre).
- General Secretariat Division