Three women, the director of Institutional Relations and counselor at Cárnicas Serrano, the general secretary of the Association of Insurance Brokers and the executive director of Sesame and Zeus, Carmen Serrano, Ana Muñoz and Ana-Isabel Gil, received recognition last night for their work at Forinvest’s ‘Finance Night’.
A nod to the 8M of the economic-financial event that starts today at Feria Valencia and which brought together the protagonists of the economic, financial and political sector of the Valencian Community in a business evening.
Serrano received the Award for professional career in the business sector as the current manager of a family business “with 100% Valencian capital”. Carmen Serrano, who joined the company in 1985, continues the legacy of her father, who built a company “a reference in the manufacture of processed meat, present in all Spanish distribution chains and in the most important in Europe”, highlighted the jury.
The other Valencian winner is the Award for professional career in entrepreneurship and innovation, Ana-Isabel Gil, with more than 18 years in business management and currently responsible for Zeus Smart Visual Data, Sesame HR and Base One, a group of companies with headquarters in La Marina, an example of the technological hub that Valencia has become. A graduate of the UPV, Gil is a technical engineer in applied computing.
Finally, for Ana Muñoz, Award for professional career in the insurance sector, the jury highlighted her “successful career in the insurance world”. She is CEO of the Ponce y Mugar insurance brokerage, based in Madrid, and vice president of the Association of Business Women AMESAL.
Likewise, there was also an award for the Centennial Company, an award that was created for the first time last year and that went to Carmencita at that time. Last night another company from Alicante, Hilaturas Ferre, from Banyeres de Mariola, collected an award in recognition of the work begun by Antonio Ferre in 1914 with a textile factory that produced jute and other fiber fabrics, and whose legacy continues to this day, with subsidiaries in United States and Mexico.
And from one centennial to another recently created but with a promising projection: PowerCo, the Volkswagen Group company to manage the Sagunt gigafactory, received the Forinvest 2023 Award, which speaks of the enormous expectations placed on the project.
Its CFO, Javier Rivera, accepted the award and stated that the gigafactory represents “the spearhead of the transformation of the automotive sector in Spain. An essential step for the electrification of the sector in Spain and a pillar for our industry for all of Spain”.
In fact, the Forinvest awards are granted by the organizing committee, chaired by the Minister of Finance and Economic Model, Arcadi Spain, who played a relevant role last night, as he closed the meeting.
In her speech, Spain claimed “the essential role of women in economic-financial, technological and business decision-making” and called for “their greater participation in the main debates that concern us to achieve fair, inclusive and egalitarian economic growth that don’t leave out half the population”.
He also took the opportunity to appeal to private banks, so that they “guarantee especially the elderly and all those who do not have access to digitization financial inclusion with personalized attention and necessary services to prevent the digital divide from leaving financial services on the margins to an important part of the population.
Spain’s reflection comes days after his trip to Brussels, where he presented a pilot plan to the European Commission to facilitate access to financial services with the installation of ATMs in neighborhoods of large cities.
