Fernando Rodés Vilà (born 1 August 1960, in Barcelona) is a businessman specialised in marketing, communications and sustainability, and invests and manages companies operating in those fields. Fernando is currently vice chairman of Havas (ticker: HAV) after having been its CEO 2006-2011, and CEO of MPG Havas Media 1999-2006.[1] He is founder, with his family, of the holding company ISP and several of its subsidiaries: Digilant, Acceso, In-Store Media and Antevenio (ticker: ALANT) among others. Fernando is founder and chairman of Ara (newspaper) the leading digital and print media platform launched in Barcelona in 2010; board member of Acciona (ticker: ANA) and chairman of its Appointments and Retribution Committee; and one of the Spanish members of the Trilateral Commission.
He is also chairman of Advisory Board for Sustainable Development of the Catalan Government; is chairman of Fundació Creafutur; and a founder and board member of Fundació Natura/Acció Natura.

Fernando lives in Barcelona, has five children named Joan, Sara, Manuela, Marc and Carlota and is married to Maria Macaya.

References

  1. "Fernando Rodes Vila, CEO, Media Planning Group,President, Cannes Media Lions". Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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