ABSIDE MEDIA: New stage with Javier Visiers (CEO) and José Luis Restán

Javier Visiers replaces Fernando Giménez Barriocanal in front of Abside Media, a media group that encompasses signatures such as COPE, Cadena 100, Rock FM, MegastarFm and Pass. The renewal is completed with José Luis Restán as non -executive president.

The Board of Directors of Abside Media has agreed to appoint José Luis Restán as new non -executive president and Javier Visiers like new CEO leading the strategy, business and transformation process of the company. The current general director of COPE assumes the position after the end of the mandate of Ignacio Armenteros.

On the other hand, Fernando Giménez Barriocanal Leaves the company's executive presidency after 12 years, although he will continue as Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Episcopal Conference, a position that implies the link of the Episcopal Conference with the group, ensuring the interests of the latter, through the monitoring of the company's activities with the new CEO in the economic and management. Restan, meanwhile, assumes the presidency of the company that in this new stage will not have executive functions. At the same time, will keep the editorial address.

The company has also decided to create a Non -Executive Vice Presidency that will assume José María Albalad, until now director of the Secretariat for the maintenance of the Church and advisor to Abside Media in the last year.

These movements come accompanied by a New structure that will bet on a “more agile and efficient” management to achieve a greater convergence of resources between the means it has and, at the same time, Accelerate your digital transformation.

Javier Visiers and José Luis Restán

Javier Visiers He was born in Fuenterrabía (Guipúzcoa) in 1977. He has been in Cope for 25 years and has developed his entire professional career within the group where he has been director of different stations, COPE programming director, deputy director of radio content and CEPE General Director of COPE. He has a degree in Journalism from the University of Navarra, a doctor of journalism from the CEU, PDG for the IESE and management program in digital transformation by the IE.

José Luis Restán, on the other hand, he was born in Madrid in 1958. He graduated in Caminos Engineering, but quickly linked his professional career to the world of communication, launching the Spanish edition of 30 Giorni magazine or pages for the month. He studied journalism at the University of Navarra and has been linked to COPE since 1990 where he has been an informative editor, director of The mirror, of The church flashlight, attached to the president and editorial director. Restan regularly collaborates with headers such as ABC and Alfa and Omega. Recently, the Association of Radio and Television professionals granted him the silver antenna for his career.

In the opinion of the new CEO, Javier Visiers, “We need to anticipate the changes that are taking place and that will continue to be produced in the way of consuming content in the future. We no longer only talk about radio or television but rather content and need to be prepared to continue being relevant to the user and to compete with the rest of the players. To make a referent in society with its portfolio of brands, content, advertisers and communicators. convergent and that research and data make it more effective. ” On the other hand, José Luis Restán, in his first statements as an non -executive president, "Abside Media attends an internal transformation process to continue growing in an increasingly competitive environment and we do it without giving up our ideology."