Amparo Moraleda, the first female vice president of CaixaBank

BarcelonaThe Board of Directors of CaixaBank has appointed Amparo Moraleda as Vice President of the bank. An independent director since 2014, the former president of IBM in Spain is the first woman to hold this position at the bank, founded in 2011 and spun off from the former Caja de Pensiones (Cash Bank). Moraleda, chosen following a favorable report from the Appointments and Sustainability Committee, fills the vacancy left by Tomàs Muniesa, a longtime resident who has served as the bank's non-executive chairman since January 1.

Muniesa replaced José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, who came from Bankia, a group acquired in 2020. This change and the appointment of new directors Rosa María García Piñeiro, Luis Álvarez Satorre, Bernardo Sánchez Incera, Pablo Forero Calderón, and José María Méndez Ál.

Moraleda (Madrid, 1964), who holds a degree in industrial engineering from ICAI and a PDG from IESE, was a director of IBM between 1995 and 2009. Since 2001, she has been Executive President for Spain and Portugal, and since 2005, she expanded her responsibilities to Greece. She was also a director of Iberdrola between 2009 and 2012.

In addition to being an independent director of CaixaBank, Moraleda also holds a position on the boards of directors of Airbus Group, Vodafone Group, and Maersk. She is a member of several boards of trustees and councils of various institutions and organizations, including the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences.

In 2005, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, a recognition that recognizes the business and technology personalities who have most contributed worldwide to the incorporation and contribution of women to technological development.

In recent months, the La Caixa Group, led by the foundation, has made numerous changes. The most recent was the appointment of Javier Godó, editor of The Vanguard, as vice president of the foundation, which oversees the investment arm, Criteria, which holds the largest portfolio of business holdings in Spain, with a value of around €30 billion at the end of last year.

Previously, Josep Maria Coronas served as general manager of the foundation itself, serving as secretary of its board of trustees and also as secretary of the board of directors of CriteriaCaixa. The foundation owns Criteria, which is also the main shareholder of CaixaBank (31.1%), Naturgy (26.7%), Telefónica (9.9%), and Colonial (17.3%), among others.

This shift in Criteria's strategy, focusing on more robust, select holdings with management capabilities, is being spearheaded by CEO Àngel Simón. The former chairman of Agbar and vice chairman of Veolia was appointed CEO of the company in early 2024.