María Jesús Almazor

Born in Barcelona, she studied Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC. She has spent her entire working life in the Telefónica Group, where she started in 1994 as a radio network optimiser at Telefónica Móviles España, and then went on to lead the mobile coverage deployment project in Catalonia.

In 2006, she was appointed Director of Operations for the Northern Territory of Telefónica España, where she was responsible for the creation, provision and maintenance of Telefónica’s fixed and mobile network in that region, and in 2012, she was appointed Territorial Director of the Southern Territory, before assuming the position of Chief Executive Officer of Telefónica España in 2018.

In April 2021, she was appointed CEO of Telefónica Tech Cyber Security & Cloud, where she led the cybersecurity and cloud division of Telefónica Group’s leading technology services provider NextGen. She has recently been appointed COO (Chief Operating Oficcer) for Spain and the Americas of Telefónica Tech.

Telefónica Tech has a strategic presence in Spain, the UK, the DACH region, the Adriatic region, the Nordic countries, the US, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Mexico, with the capacity to serve 5.5 million B2B customers of the Telefónica Group, including Enterprise and Public Administration, as well as SMEs and SOHO.