Connected throughout Europe’s recovery and strategic autonomy

Mr. Álvarez-Pallete has a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also studied Economics at the Université Libre of Brussels (Belgium), holds an International Management Programme (IMP) from IPADE Business School and an Advance Research Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In February 1999 he joined the Telefónica Group as Chief Financial Officer of Telefónica Internacional S.A.U., and in September of the same year he became Chief Financial Officer of Telefónica S.A. In July 2002, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Telefónica Internacional S.A.; in July 2006, General Manager of Telefónica Latinoamérica, and in March 2009 Chairman of Telefónica Latinoamérica. In September 2011 he was named Executive Chairman of Telefónica Europe. And in September 2012 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Telefónica S.A.

Since April 8^th 2016 he is Chairman & CEO of Telefónica S.A. and Member of the Board of Telefónica S.A., position he holds since July 2006. Since March 2019 he is member of the Advisory Council of SEAT, S.A.

He began his professional career at Arthur Young Auditors in 1987, before joining Benito & Monjardín/Kidder, Peabody & Co. in 1988. After this, in 1995, he joined the Compañía Valenciana de Cementos Portland (CEMEX) as head of the Investor Relations and Analysis Department. In 1996, he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in Spain, and in 1998 to Chief Administration and Finance Officer of the CEMEX Group Indonesia and to member of the Board of CEMEX Asia Ltd.

Cristiano Amon serves as president of Qualcomm Incorporated and is a member of the
Qualcomm’s executive committee. In this role, he is responsible for Qualcomm’s
semiconductor business (QCT), which includes Mobile Handsets, RF Front End, Automotive
and IoT, and the Company’s global operations.

As President of Qualcomm, Amon has steered development of a leading and differentiated
product roadmap, spearheaded Qualcomm’s 5G strategy as well as its acceleration and
global roll out and driven the expansion and diversification of the business to serve multiple
industries. Amon has also overseen the successful execution of M&A to augment
Qualcomm’s capabilities and accelerate growth in key areas, including RF Front End,
Connectivity and Networking.

Before assuming his current role, Amon served as president of QCT. Prior to that, he held
several technical and business leadership positions, including overall responsibility for
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms. Amon joined Qualcomm in 1995 as an engineer.

Amon has also served as the chief technical officer of Vésper, a wireless operator in Brazil
and held positions at NEC, Ericsson and Velocom Inc.

Amon holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate from
UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He is the Co-Chair of
the Council for IoT at the World Economic Forum’s Center for 4th Industrial Revolution
(C4IR).

Nick Read was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2018. He was appointed to the Vodafone Group Plc Board on 1 April 2014 and was Group Chief Financial Officer until 27 July 2018.

Since joining Vodafone in 2001, Nick has held a variety of senior roles including CFO, CCO and CEO of Vodafone Limited, the UK operating company.  In his role immediately prior to Group CFO, he was the Regional CEO for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific for five years and was a Board member of the listed companies of Vodacom, Safaricom, and Vodafone Qatar, our subsidiaries in India and Egypt, and our joint ventures, VHA in Australia and Indus Towers in India.

Prior to joining Vodafone, he held senior global finance positions with United Business Media Plc and Federal Express Worldwide.

In June 2018, Nick was appointed to the board of Booking Holdings Inc. as a non-executive director and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Nick is a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, with a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance.

Bruno Liebhaberg is Executive Chairman of the think tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) which he founded in 2010.

From 2018 to 2021, he was also the first Chairman of the European Union Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles’ Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM ULB) where he taught from 1979 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he advised former European Commission President Jacques Delors on industry and R&D matters related to the completion of the EU Single Market.

He holds a Master’s in management sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

¹Also representing B.LIEBHABERG S.A., Director General

²Member of the Strategic Committee