SUSANA Alejandro will succeed Ramón Alejandro as chairman of the Saica Group from the start of July.
Susana, the current director of strategy and corporate development, belongs to the third generation of the company’s founding families, who set up the business 80 years ago. She joined the firm in 1996 after graduating in business administration from the University of Zaragoza and having received further training in taxation, strategic business planning and sales.
She also gained experience in a French subsidiary of the Mars Group, before starting in the financial department of Saica in Madrid and in France. From there, she moved to the corrugated board division, where in 2003 she took over the general management of Iberia Operations and in 2010, the general management of the division. Since 2013, she has held the position of director of strategy and corporate development across the Saica Group.
Ramón Alejandro has been linked to the group since 1988 when, after completing his studies at the faculty of economics and business studies at the University of Zaragoza and a Master’s degree at the University of Deusto, he worked and became manager at one of the cardboard factories that Saica had acquired in Mexico.
In 1993, he led the company’s expansion in Europe as manager of another corrugated board factory in Lisbon. In 1996 he became general manager of Iberia operations at Saica Embalaje – today Saica Pack – and in 2001 was appointed general manager of the corrugated board division of the Saica Group. In 2007, he was appointed executive VP and took over as chairman of the Saica Group in 2010.
“I am very proud to hand over the baton to the first woman to chair this company, a woman with solid values, great international experience, excellent training and a brilliant career at Saica,” said Ramón Alejandro.
Susana declared herself “very excited about the challenge of chairing a group like Saica, leading the excellent team we have to successfully tackle the important challenges ahead of us in a world that is uncertain, complex and volatile but at the same time, full of opportunities.”
