Jorge Unda, until now the managing director of the Engineering and Construction area of the SENER Group, has been appointed CEO for the entire Group, replacing Jorge Sendagorta, who previously combined the positions of president and CEO. Unda becomes the top executive of the company, and Sendagorta remains as president of SENER’s board of directors.
An industrial engineer in the field of mechanics from the Higher School of Industrial Engineering of Bilbao (Spain), University of the Basque Country, and doctor of industrial engineering from the ESII (Higher School of Industrial Engineers) of San Sebastian (Spain), University of Navarra, Unda has had a long career at SENER. He joined the company in 1986 as a project engineer and subsequently became a project manager in the aerospace field. In 1997, he was appointed deputy managing director and, in 1998, managing director of SENER. Unda has also been a member of the CEIT (Center for Technical Research Studies) of Guipuzcoa (Biscay, Spain) since 1999, and a member of the Basque Council of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Greatly honored with this new responsibility, Unda stated, “I am thrilled to lead the SENER Group in this crucial stage, which presents a significant and exciting challenge for engineering in the current global context.” In addition, he paid tribute to his predecessor, Sendagorta, praising him for his work as the head of SENER for more than three decades, during which he spent the greatest part of this time as the CEO. Unda also referred to the splendid team that he will have at his side to shape the new common project.
In the last decade, SENER has been engineering projects globally, including projects such as those carried out in energy with plants like Gemasolar or the NOORo solar complex, infrastructure projects such as the high-speed HS2 line in the United Kingdom, preliminary engineering of the first high-speed line in California, or the intercity passenger train between the cities of Toluca and Mexico City.
