Body appoints presidents with a technical profile for Renfe and Adif: Inmaculada Gutiérrez in the operator and Joaquim Hortalà in the infrastructure manager

Change in the presidency of Renfe and appointment in that of Adif. The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Transport, Carlos Body, has entrusted the position of first executive of the operator to a person from the house, Inmaculada Gutiérrez, a senior official who comes to the position from the General Directorate of Renfe International Projects. Gutiérrez takes the position of the dismissed Álvaro Fernández Heredia, after the accident on October 28 in Urda (Toledo) and the subsequent strike of train drivers on Tuesday, November 10.

Gutiérrez had until now assumed management and direction responsibilities linked to the development of international business and railway projects in different markets. He previously trained in antitrust, a key area now that Renfe competes with other operators in the passenger market. Throughout her career, the new president of Renfe has held positions of responsibility and management in the General Administration of the State, in private and public companies. Before joining the public railway operator, she was a member of the Competition Defense Court and advisor to the National Competition Commission (CNMC). She has also been Economic and Commercial Advisor of Spain in the United States.

Inmaculada Gutiérrez Carrizo has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and belongs to the Higher Body of Commercial Technicians and State Economists.

The second appointment this Friday was that of the new president of Adif, a position that had remained vacant since the resignation presented by Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña to the Vice President of the Body. The presidency of the railway infrastructure manager falls to Joaquim Hortalà i Vallvé, with experience in the railway sector and its regulatory framework. Hortalà has been general secretary of Renfe and, for a decade, worked at the competition authority, supervising regulated markets, including the railways.

The one chosen by Carlos Corpus entered the Corps of State Lawyers in 2004, beginning his professional career at the State Bar in Barcelona, ​​where he carried out his duties between 2004 and 2010. Subsequently, between 2010 and 2011, he held a position as a State lawyer in the Ministry of Public Works.

In January 2013 he was appointed secretary of the Council of the National Competition Commission (CNC). And with the constitution of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), in October of that same year, he began to hold the position of director of the institution's Legal Department. In 2017 he was appointed secretary of the CNMC Council, a position he held until 2021.

Between 2022 and 2024 he was legal director of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB). Subsequently, in April 2024, he was appointed general secretary of Renfe Operadora and the boards of its investee companies, a position he held until July 2026.