Here’s a quick look at what the press has to say about him and the profile is clear: self entrepreneur, born entrepreneur, clinical eye for business And just fear of crisis and paying taxes. Carlos Bertomeu, airline president Air Nostrum and now the managing rail company iryo bullet train(for all this and more) Businessman of the year 2022. not only to companies, but from this year and starting with Bertomeu, but also Entrepreneur of the Year.
This economist, born in Valencia in 1963, University of Valencia He worked as a finance professor and consultant in the company. Graduate School of Business; member of Social Council of Valencia Polytechnic University and vice president European Regional Airlines Association (IT HAPPENED), among others. For example, it is also Nefinsa Group Investments and Strategic Development Directorposition that will change your life.
This commercial holding serratosa family established Air Nostrum In 1994, at the suggestion of Bertomeu, who clearly saw the opportunity to build one. regional airline in the heat of the liberalization of the market that had just been established by European Union. Such was his belief that he was the first. CEO of the company and that years later, when the ravages of the 2008 financial crisis became unsustainable, he bought a large portion of the property from Serratosas. It is still the main shareholder today.
This is before the pandemic Iberia franchise airline for regional flightschained five consecutive years of earnings and managed a turnover of 540 million euros. after passing covidThe situation has become extremely complicated (140m euros loss in 2020, 111m euros recovery from SEPI…), but today Bertomeu is breathing more or less calmly and confidently, as he told EL at the end of last year NEWSPAPER, in which consumer’s willingness to live (and travel) there may be more than one threat of recession.
high speed arrival
In any case, Bertomeu has embarked on his second big adventure and is benefiting from yet another important liberalization, the rail market. And that has been one of his greatest achievements in 2022: rolling To the Iryo bullet train.
“It’s a business that starts from scratch (…) but it has many parameters similar to aviation,” the manager says in another interview with EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA in the context of his appointment. entrepreneur of the year. “I think it is Spain’s commitment to be one of the best infrastructure networks in the world and the best in Europe on Ave. The connection of the High Speed train with the plane is very well designed.”, justifies the businessman.
impact on the economy
He planted a seed for it to be so, and today he got approval for it from EL PERIÓDICO. Also, partially Spanish economy, because this businessman makes no secret of his belief that a company should pay taxes when things are going well. Unless taxation, in his view, is as suffocating as it is, wealth tax.
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