Florentino Pérez Rodriguez: Spanish Executive

Florentino Pérez Rodriguez was born on March 8, 1947 in Hortaleza, Madrid, Spain. Today he also resides in Madrid, Spain. He went to the Polytechnic University of Madrid and earned a civil engineering degree. Florentino has had a varying and colorful career.

He entered politics in 1979 joining the Union of the Democratic Centre party. Florentino served among others on the Madrid city council. His political ambitions went further and he ran as a candidate for the Partido Reformista Democrático (Democratic Reform Party) in the 1986 general elections.

Florentino did not let his civil engineering training go to waste. He was named vice president of OCP Construcciones in 1993. In 1997, OCP and Giney Y Navarro merged forming Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, SA (ACS) and Florentino became president of the new company. It is today one of the largest construction companies in the world.

Florentino is definitely better known as the president of the Real Madrid Football Club. He has been president on separate terms and has now served a fourth term.  It was Florentino who started the era of brining very popular and very expensive football players to Real Madrid.