Interview with Eduardo Montes (PADE-II-89)
Enthusiasm Leads to Success

Speaking from his former office at the Siemens headquarters in Madrid, Eduardo Montes made room in his busy schedule for IESE Alumni Magazine, just before moving to Munich to take up his new role as Senior Vice-President of the Board and President of the Telecommunications Division of Siemens AG.

Eduardo Montes, one of Spain’s most successful executives, is changing both offices and responsibilities. Still, he will remain as president of the Siemens S.A. board of directors while facing the greatest challenge of his professional career. Until May, he led a business group of enormous complexity between its different divisions and companies in which it owns shares, with turnover of over 2.7 billion euros as one of Siemens’s main subsidiaries, and with 5,000 employees.

His associates acknowledge the leaps and bounds the company has made under his leadership. In 1994, Montes was appointed as CEO of Siemens Spain and in 1999 he became the head of the group in Spain after a successful career in the telecommunications sector. He started his travels along this road as an intern at Siemens, and he went on to work in a variety of multinationals in Spain, including P.A. Technology, ITT, CDTI, Alcatel and GEC Alsthom. Now, he has become the first Spaniard to join the board of the German multinational.

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