Indra has called a shareholders’ meeting for June 30 to ratify the changes at the top approved by the board of directors last week. Thus, the call includes the board’s proposal to appoint José Vicente de los Mozos as the new executive director and ratify his appointment as CEO of the company, as the company has notified the CNMV. De los Mozos will replace Ignacio Mataix, who resigned on May 18. The independent director Alex Arendt also resigned from said council, in protest at the departure of Mataix and the haste in the search for his replacement.
The call also includes the expansion of the number of directors, which goes from the current 14 to 16, and gives entry to the highest body to Amber Capital, through the appointment of Pablo Jiménez de Parga as proprietary director. The investment fund, the largest shareholder of PRISA (publisher of EL PAÍS and Cinco Días), has doubled its stake in Indra to 7.239%, the capital necessary to be entitled to a seat on the company’s board.
Furthermore, Indra has proposed the entry into the board of María Ángeles Santamaría Martín and Elena García Armada as independent directors- “With this expansion and the appointment of two independent directors, it will be possible to respond to the new reality created by the new shareholding composition of the company and continue to comply with the best corporate governance practices,” the statement says.
As Indra has stated, if ratified by the shareholders’ meeting, “it will make it possible to comply with recommendation 17 of the Code of Good Governance, with at least half of the independent directors out of a total of sixteen”. At the same time, the company has pointed out, the company reinforces its commitment to gender diversity, reaching a 37.5% female presence on the board.
“If the shareholders give us their support, we will have a broader, more solid and diverse board to face the exciting challenges and opportunities that Indra faces and respond to the demands of our interest groups. We are building a more consistent business project, and we have specific reasons to be optimistic”, stated the president of Indra, Marc Murtra, in the statement.
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