Bernardo Lorenzo will be the new president of the CMT

The until now Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society, Bernardo Lorenzo Almendros, will be the new president of the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) replacing Reinaldo Rodríguez.

The until now Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society, Bernardo Lorenzo Almendros, will be the new president of the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) replacing Reinaldo Rodríguez, as agreed by the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday.

The Executive has proposed to the Council this appointment along with that of Marta Plana Dropez, at the proposal of CIU, and

Lorenzo Almendros, who replaced Francisco Ros last July as head of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, dependent on the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, was appointed general director of Telecommunications and Information Technology in June 2004, and later, in April 2008, general director of Telecommunications.

Born in Durcal (Granada) in 1953, married, with two children, he is a Higher Telecommunications Engineer from the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and belongs to the Corps of Higher Technicians of the State Administration and Higher of Information Systems and Technologies of the Administration.

In the General Directorate of Telecommunications he has been head of the Studies and Prospective Service, Head of the Technology Area and Technology Advisor. In 1992 he was appointed deputy to the Government Delegate at Telefónica and, later, deputy director general of Technical and Economic Studies of Telecommunications Operators at the General Secretariat of Communications. In September 2000 he was deputy director general of Operators and Information Technologies of the General Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Technologies. In June 2004 he was appointed general director of Telecommunications and Information Technology and in April 2008 general director of Telecommunications. Since July 2010 he was Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society.

For her part, Marta Plana has a Law Degree from the University of Barcelona and a Juris Doctor with honors from Nova Southeastern University in the United States.

Ha prestado sus servicios como abogada en las empresas Baker&McKenzie y Microsoft Corporation. Fue responsable del Departamento de Nuevas Tecnologías y Propiedad Intelectual de Osborne Clarke, L.L.P., y actualmente era consejera general legal de Aedgency, empresa dedicada al marketing on line. Es miembro del directorio de varias empresas emergentes nacidas en Palo Alto (California), algunas de las cuales puede cotizar en bolsa en los próximos meses.

Finally, Xavier Ormaetxea, born on April 14, 1961 in Bilbao, is married, has three children and has a Law Degree from the University of Deusto.

He has been an advisor to the Department of Economic Promotion of the Provincial Council of Vizcaya and managing director of the public company Igorreko Industrialdea, S.A.. Between 1998 and 2005 he was a member of the Basque Parliament for the Basque Nationalist Party and held the positions of president of the European Affairs Commission and the Industry Commission. Since 2005 he was managing director of Arratiako Industrialdea.