Fernando Rodés Vilà

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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.