Who is Gaston Bottazzini, the new CEO of El Corte Inglés

A new CEO for a new strategic plan. Yesterday, El Corte Inglés appointed a manager who will develop the plan that the company is already developing for the period 2025 to 2030. Gaston Bottazzini (Buenos Aires, 1969) He holds an MBA from Harvard Bus.business school and a bachelor of science degree from the University of California. However, his career has long been linked to the department store sector.

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A new CEO for a new strategic plan. Yesterday, El Corte Inglés appointed a manager who will develop the plan that the company is already developing for the period 2025 to 2030. Gaston Bottazzini (Buenos Aires, 1969) He holds an MBA from Harvard Bus.business school and a bachelor of science degree from the University of California. However, his career has long been linked to the department store sector.

The manager, who joined the Green Triangle group in February as an adviser to the president, has Extensive experience in the industry retail, to which he has dedicated most of his professional career. From June 2018 until January 1, Bottazzini was CEO Falabellaone of the largest department store groups in Latin America, with more than 500 physical stores and shopping centers, as well as an important sales platform. Online.

Before that, and for ten years, the Argentine manager held other positions in the group, such as general manager Falabella Financialwhere he founded Banco Falabella in Colombia and led the company’s entry into the Mexican market.

Although he spent the last 15 years of his professional career with the Chilean group, from 1996 to 2008 Bottazzini was McKinsey Partner, specializes in the financial and consumer goods sectors in Latin America, the United States and Spain.

New CEO of El Corte Inglés will report directly to the board of directors and to the delegated executive committee of the company, chaired by Marta Alvarez, which also includes José Ramón de Hoces, Group Secretary-Director, and Javier Rodríguez-Arias, Director.

His appointment marks the restoration of a position that has not existed in the group for two years, following the departure of Victor del Pozo from the company in March 2022. The aforementioned executive committee was then created and the company appointed two directors: José María Folache (retail) and Santiago Bau (Corporate and New Business). Both will now report to the new CEO.