Miguel M. Latasa Alzuri

Director General,
Informatica El Corte Ingles

Mr. Latasa has a degree in Economic Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid(1959-60/1963-64). He gained his doctorate from the same university (1964-65/1965-66) whileworking at S.I.E. (Sociedad de Investigación Económica - The Organisation for Economic Research) where he specialised in statistics, macroeconomics, and market analysis. Later, Mr. Latasa also obtained an advanced degree in operations management from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In May of 1966, Mr Latasa joined Informática El Corte Inglés as a systems analyst working on the installation of the first mainframe computer system (IBM 360-40) in August of 1967. Until 1971, he participated directly in this process, assuming also the position of overall Chief of Information Studies that included the Department of Analysis and Programming, as well as Data Processing and the Department of Economic Studies and Market Analysis. In 1974 he was appointed Director of Data Processing for El Corte Inglés, a role which he carried out for the entire Group of companies until 1998. In 1986 Informática El Corte Inglés S.A. was created and Mr. Latasa was appointed Managing Director and in 1994 became Chairman. Currently, he is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors for both the Computer Systems and Technology divisions of Informática El Corte Inglés.