Appointments at
Cementos Portland Valderrivas
Letter from the Chairman to Juan Castells
The Board of Directors of Cementos Portland
Valderrivas unanimously agreed on the ap-
pointment of José Ignacio Elorrieta Pérez de
Diego as a new Director to cover the vacancy
left following the resignation of Juan Castells.
Elorrieta has a PHD degree in Biology from
Universidad Complutense of Madrid, with a
postgraduate in Biolectromagnetism, Bio-
medical Engineering, and Environmental Ta-
xation. Before joining the Cementos Portland
Valderrivas Group in 2009 as the General
Manager of the Environment and Sustaina-
bility area, Elorrieta held several positions
in the field of public management: General
State Administration (Ministries of Health and
Consumer Affairs; Environment, Education
and Science); at the Navarre Regional Go-
vernment (Health and Social Welfare and En-
vironment, Regional Planning, and Housing)
among others. He was also the Executive
Director of Sustainability at the Institute for
the Sustainability of Resources. His interna-
tional experience includes being the head of
Spanish delegations at various conferences
of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
and SAICAM–World Strategy for Chemi-
cal Products – within the framework of the
United Nations and the OECD. He was an
advisor to the World Health Organization in
different international panels of experts in the
field of the Environment, Health, and Urban
Ecology, of the European Commission, and
of the European Council of the Environment.
He was awarded the Civil Order of Health in
recognition of his work in the dissemination of
science, has published 18 books and more
than 180 articles and has also participated in
several courses as a professor.
In addition, to cover the vacancies in the
committees due to the resignation of Juan
Castells, Lourdes Martínez Zabala has been
appointed member of the Appointments and
Remuneration and Corporate Governance
Committee; Cartera Deva, S.A., represented
by Jaime Llantada Aguinaga to the Audit and
Control Committee; and Gustavo Villapalos
Salas, as a member of the Executive Com-
mittee.
Esther Alcocer Koplowitz, the CEO of FCC,
writes a farewell letter to Juan Castells Ma-
sana has been with the Group over the past
47years, first as an employee and manager
and, until 8 October of this year, as a member
of the Board of Directors.
Dear Juan:
It is difficult to write a farewell letter to some-
body like you who we all have seen working,
with commitment and loyalty, at our Group
during all our lives. It will also be difficult for
us not to have you with us in the forthcoming
sessions of the FCC Board Meetings or at
those at Portland Valderrivas where your per-
formance as a director was exceptional.
All of us who are part of the FCC Group and,
especially my mother, Esther Koplowitz with
whom you have worked so hard and so loya-
lly, want to publicly express our gratitude for
so much and all the good that you have con-
tributed to this Company, which will always
be your home, and where we will strive to
continue along the same lines of honesty, de-
termination, commitment, and exquisite be-
haviour that have always distinguished your
performance.
I wish you the best and send you a very warm
hug.
Esther Alcocer Koplowitz
CEO of FCC
José Ignacio Elorrieta Pérez de Diego,
new Board Member of Cementos Portland
Valderrivas.
