César
Alierta Izuel was born
on May 5, 1945 in Zaragoza, Spain. In
1967, César received a Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the Universidad de Zaragoza
(Spain). Three years later after earning
his degree, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at
Columbia University in New York, USA.
In
1970 César began working at Banco Urquijo as a Financial Analyst. Later he
became General
Manager of the Capital Markets at Banco Urquijo in Madrid. In 1985 César
founded Beta Capital and served as President and Chairman. From 1996 to 1999 he was the CEO of
Tabacalera, the tobacco company.
In
July 2000, César became the Executive Chairman and CEO of Telefónica. He has
been an effective CEO and in September 2005 received the Global Spanish
Entrepreneur award in New York by the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce. This
distinction is an acknowledgement of his job as president of Telefónica,
leading the firm to entry into the Dow Jones Global Titan 50 index. Telefónica
is the first Spanish company and one of the very few in Europe to be part of
this index, made of the world’s 50 most successful, global and largest
companies.
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