MADRID, 13 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The lawyer and businessman José María del Nido Benavente, president of Sevilla FC between 2002 and 2013 and the club’s largest shareholder, announced this Monday the signing of Antonio Gallego to its Board of Directors if he regains control of the Nervionense entity.
“We have been working for some time on an exciting and future-oriented project that we want the Sevillistas to become aware of. A change in the board of directors is vital to get the team out of a very dangerous situation and recover Sevilla FC, which we managed to be named the best club in the world in 2006 and 2007,” said Del Nido.
The largest shareholder from Nervion has explained that, if he regains control of the entity, Sevilla FC will have “a Board of Directors that serves the club and not makes use of it. It will be made up of Sevilla fans and professionals of the highest level, as deserves a elite club that will once again be feared and rub shoulders with the big clubs in Europe,” he said.
In this sense, he announced that the Sevillian businessman Antonio Javier Gallego will be a member of his work team and future advisor of Sevilla FC. Gallego (Seville, 1973) has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Seville and an Executive MBA from IESE. He is currently General Director of MIGASA, a world leader in oil exports and the first agri-food company in Andalusia by turnover, with presence in more than 120 countries, which with more than 1,200 employees markets around 10% of the world’s share of olive oils.
From a very young age, Gallego has been linked to this Andalusian family business with more than 90 years of history, where he has worked on company growth projects through the design and execution of joint-ventures and strategic alliances that have allowed new brands to be incorporated into the company. MIGASA Group brand ecosystem. In recent years he has been responsible for the export department of MIGASA.
In addition to this position, he is president of the main employer association in his sector, Asoliva, which brings together the most relevant Spanish oil exporting companies; He is vice president of Anierac, which integrates the vast majority of oil bottling and refining companies in Spain; and he is also vice president of the Olive Oil Interprofessional.