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Luís Cabral earned a degree in Public Relations and Advertising from the Instituto de Novas Profissões in 1990 and completed a course in COBOL Programming run by IBM. Mr. Cabral was employed as a Programmer at the União de Bancos Portugueses from 1982 to 1989 and afterwards at Philips. In 1989, Mr. Cabral joined the predecessor of the Group as Production Director of O Independente and subsequently served as Commercial Director and a member of the board of directors of several companies within the Group before becoming Managing Director of Sales of the Group’s Outdoor operations and, afterwards, Managing Director of this unit. After the sale of the Outdoors business, Mr. Cabral became the Group’s Sales Coordinator, a job he now accumulates with being CEO of the Radio business and Managing Director of Media Capital Edições.

Manuel Mirat (Cáceres, 1970) holds a degree in Law and has completed the Senior Management Program (PADE) and the Directorate Development Program (PDD) at IESE. Mirat began his professional career at Arthur Andersen and in 1997 he was hired by PRISA, where he held various corporate positions, including that of chief financial officer. In 2004, he was appointed executive director of PRISACOM to lead the digital development of the Group, directing the transformation projects of different brands: El País, Cadena SER, 40 Principales, As e Cinco Días. In March 2009, he was appointed General Director of Operations of Sogecable and, in December of that same year, he took over the General Directorate of CANAL +, and was in charge of sales and marketing, as well as the development of new businesses. In 2014, he was appointed executive director of EL PAÍS and PRISA Notícias. He has been Executive Director of PRISA since June 2017 and is, since September 2017, its Executive Director.

Chairman of Prisa Audiovisual and Vice-Chairman of Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (Prisa). Mr Polanco obtained a BS in Business Management and Economics with a major in International Finances from the Universidade Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. In 1991 he was appointed CEO of Santillana editing company in Chile and in Peru, in 1994 Managing Director of the Mexican daily newspaper La Prensa and also in charge of the launch of the edition of the daily newspaper El País in México. In 1996, Mr. Polanco moved to Miami where he became the Head of the international business of Grupo Santillana, overseeing the business of its 21 companies in Latin America and US. He came back to Spain in 1999 as CEO of GDM. A little later he also became CEO of GMI. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of Media Capital Group, were he was until the beginning of 2009, when he was appointed Director of Prisa. Was Vice-Chairman of Prisa TV and DTS and is a member of the Board of Directors and member of the Executive Committee of Prisa.

Member of the Board of Directors. Graduated in Law and History of Art from the University of Valencia-Estudi General and in Gemology from the University of Barcelona. She is a Financial Analyst (member of the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts). Throughout her professional career she held positions in numerous companies of different sectors. She has been CEO of Libertas 7, SA since 2004 and is a member of the Board of Directors of Adolfo Domínguez (representing Luxury Liberty).

Member of the Board of Directors. Pilar del Río (Sevilla, 1950) is a journalist and translator of Portuguese into Spanish. She developed her professional activity in Radio Nacional de España, TVE and Cadena SER. She collaborated with the press in Spain and Portugal. Activist of Human Rights and Duties, presides over the José Saramago Foundation, which seeks, starting from social intervention, a fairer and cleaner environment in which to read in peace. She is a widow and has a son.

CEO of PRISA Radio since January 2018, was CEO of Movistar + between May 2015 and December 2017. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, and he has developed most of his professional life within PRISA, where he served as CEO of PRISA TV and DTS (previously Sogecable) between 2009 and May 2015. Previously, from 2000 to 2009, he was managing editor of El País.

Xavier Pujol holds a B.A. and a Masters in Law from ESADE, was a visiting student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Minnesota and completed the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at IESE. He began his career at Cuatrecasas, and served as secondee in the London office of Herbert Smith. Subsequently, in January 2007, he joined Latham & Watkins when it opened its office in Spain. He later worked at the London office. In January 2013 he was appointed counsel at Latham & Watkins and in September of the same year he joined PRISA as Chief Legal Officer of PRISA Radio and PRISA Noticias. Since October 2014 he has been deputy secretary of the Board of Directors of PRISA, while continuing to act as board secretary of both PRISA Radio and PRISA Noticias as well as general counsel in the press and radio units. In July 2017 he was appointed secretary and Board Secretary of PRISA.