Many books have lost a great reader, and is that part of being a key figure in the business world and possibly the national scene of the twentieth century, D. Claudio Boada demonstrated with great interest your admiration and love of reading. So much so, that remained a concern for the preservation and enhancement of its library, which I had the honor to work and improve. I remember he had a great admiration for the work of Salvador Dali and is that part of being a person knowledgeable in many subjects, the magic of painting and its criticism or reading one of his hobbies were more pronounced.
His curiosity and interest in understanding and learning were amazing, and the new technologies or modern librarianship, were ineligible to soon be able to handle a bibliographic management system experimental ad-hoc designed in used to retrieve information and biographical documents.
And like all open book, I discovered an intelligent person, complete with values \u200b\u200band a subtle irony or subtle irony, which was kindly smile from his listeners. Without a doubt he will miss Mr. D. Claudio.
dies Claudio Boada, former president of Banco Hispano Americano, concerning the financial sector.
- Source: Expansión.com
- Date: August 23, 2006
- http://www.expansion.com/edicion/expansion/inversion/681833.html
Claudio Boada's death at 86 years old, leaving the sector Financial without one of their main references. He had the reputation of a good manager in the world of finance and enterprise.
"Smart, clairvoyant, preparation, great entrepreneur." These are just some of the adjectives that leading figures from English company recalled yesterday Claudio Boada Villalonga. The employer industrial engineer, father of current president of the Circulo de Empresarios, died yesterday in Palma de Mallorca, where he enjoyed a holiday, at 86 years of age because of respiratory failure after suffering a small accident at home.
Claudio Boada (Barcelona 1920) was a perfect example of the transformation of Spain from heavy industry to the Spain of services, said he knew him. He himself was an example of this transformation, as his career went from Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, banking, service sector par excellence. In fact, Boada was an industrial engineer. He graduated in 1946 at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona.
brilliant career. His first commissions were mainly professionals in the industry automotive, where he held various positions in the National Company for lorries (Pegasus). In 1967 he was elected to chair the first English steel company, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, which, like Pegasus, belonged to the Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI).
Three years later, the then Industry Minister, José María López de Letona, chose him to head the institution. During the four years he remained in office, Boada managed to conduct a thorough renovation of public school, recalls former Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and current Minister of Santander Guillermo de la Dehesa, "Boada brought the INI new staff, able to delve into the studies and analysis of economic reality. "
From 1974 to 1981, Boada was president of the English subsidiary of U.S. multinational Ford. Then the public sector to request their services again , was named chairman of National Oil Institute, a position he held until 1984.
Simultaneous key figure
the Ford presidency as vice president of Spain with Banco de Madrid and Catalan Development Bank. These were his first contacts with the financial world a sector that was destined to become a key figure for his contribution to the modernization of the English banking which began just at that period.
In January 1985, the engineer assumed the presidency of Banco Hispano Americano, with the difficult task of cleaning up the organization was going through a difficult time. Boada, replacing Alejandro Albert, managed to refloat the Hispanic, making up ground it had lost to its competitors, its financial system was still characterized by strong state intervention. A Boada sanitation should also be de Urquijo Union, a former subsidiary of Hispano, which cost around 95,000 million pesetas.
Leading English Bank, Boada worked to promote cooperation with other European entities. Their approach Germany's Commerzbank, Crédit Lyonnais French and Italian bank in Rome led to the creation in 1989, the first European bank holding company, which included an exchange of shares between the four entities.
Awards. In 1990, at age 70, Boada decided to leave the presidency of Banco Hispano Americano "because they foresaw the Articles of Association. He was replaced by Jose Maria Amusategui, but continued in the bank as an adviser and honorary president.
When, in 1992, completed the merger of Banco Central Hispano and Banco, Boada took a seat on the board of the new Banco Central Hispano (BCH), an entity that, 10 years later merged with Banco Santander to create the largest English financial group. In 1994, when Boada left his job as counselor at BCH, was named honorary president of the entity.
A year earlier, the Faculty of Economics, University of Alcalá de Henares was named Doctor Honoris Causa. This is one of the many accolades that Boada received throughout his life, where the cultural aspect was no less active than the business.
Perhaps one of the most prestigious award was given to it by the Government in 2004, the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Savio, for their work on behalf of the work Catalan painter Salvador Dalí. Boada, in fact, was lifelong pattern of the board of trustees Gala Dalí.
Among other positions of prestige, was president of the Association for the Advancement Directorate (APD), since he left at the age of 75 years and was an honorary member of the Prince of Asturias Foundation Trust.
also chaired the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (Cunef), an institution of the English Banking Association (AEB). Last year, Boada decided to resign from this position, but the bank bosses, in recognition of his long career, decided to appoint chairman fee.
An engineer turned banker Claudio Boada Villalonga was born in Barcelona on June 14, 1920 and obtained a degree in industrial engineering in the School of Industrial Engineering at the same city, a discipline in which a PhD soon after.
His first professional stage served as the engineer and after going through several workshops, in 1962 he became managing director of the National Company for lorries (Pegasus), a company of which he was director general manager two years later.
received the appointment in 1970 of then Minister of Industry, Lopez de Letona, to serve as Chair of the National Institute Industry (INI) until October 1974 when he became president of Ford Spain. Joined
financial sector after leaving the presidency of the National Institute of Industry and simultaneously held the vice of the Bank of Madrid, the Catalan Development Bank and the National Company for lorries (Pegasus) and president of Industrial Promotion and Development (Prodinsa).
Its entry into Banco Hispano Americano is produced on 22 January 1985 and directly moved into the presidency at a time when the bank was going through one of its worst crisis. Boada it cleaned up and managed to recover the ground that the bank had lost.
lived fusion Central Bank and Banco Hispano Americano, which gave birth to the Banco Central Hispano in 1992. Boada was honorary president of the Hispanic. In 1994 he became honorary president of BCH.
Despite his financial skills did not neglect his desire for art and culture. Two years ago he was awarded by the Government for its active role in disseminating the work of Salvador Dali with the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise. Also received the Great Cross of Isabel the Catholic, for his career and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alcalá.
Another big man behind a large bank. Sometimes, the semblance of a character hidden from the great person that existed behind. A Claudio Boada those who knew the first thing that springs to remind you not so much its financial aspect, as his human side. Above its marked "renovation", Boada, friends say, was a "good man."
To Graciano García, director of the Prince of Asturias, between the protruding features of his personality, are the men's "smart, subtle and cautious" as well as to show off a sense of humor "very Catalan" . In this regard, both groups agree that the honorary chairman of BCH was a "very English Catalan", as defined Falcones, chairman of SCH Seguros, gentile of those who frequently boasted.
Perhaps because he played Boada belong to that generation of war children, who had to fight to defend their ideas, within and outside Spain and other big bankers who owned and missing as Luis Valls, (1926) or Rafael Termes (1918). In this difficult environment that was forged Guillermo de la Dehesa, Chairman of the CEPR, qualifies as a "visionary."
also the vision of that country that he lived defragmented might abocar his great ability to work and build teams and its proximity and support for those working with him. Qualities also earned him to play a paper "key economic modernization of Spain, in time of political transition", adds Graciano García.
