General Manager, Basque Energy Cluster (Cluster Energia)

Biography

Jose I. Hormaeche is the General Manager of the Basque Energy Cluster (CEPV), a non-profit private organization set up in 1996, with the mission of improving competitiveness of the Basque industrial fabric in the energy sector through collaboration. CEPV integrates more than 150 companies in the energy supply chain: energy operators, component and equipment manufacturers, service companies, research entities and public administration. From 2006 to 2013 Mr. Hormaeche was Managing Director of the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), a public entity belonging and reporting to the Department of Industry and Innovation of the Basque Government, whose mission is to define the energy strategies and develop programs and actions to achieve its objectives. From 1998 to 2006 he worked for GAMESA Group, undertaking different responsibilities such as Chief Operating Officer of Gamesa Eólica. He has a degree in Civil Engineering and a Master in Business Administration