Indra’s board of directors has replaced the company’s CEO, Ignacio Mataix, today. The decision, the company explains to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), has been made “by mutual agreement” between both parties. With this departure, the company in which the State has a majority shareholding through the State Company for Industrial Participations (Sepi), dependent on the Ministry of Finance, seeks to put an end to the corporate governance crisis and the discrepancies that existed between Mataix himself and the President, Marc Murtra.
Indra begins today “a succession process in the position of CEO linked to the definition of the next strategic plan that the company plans to define for the coming years”, adds the same board of directors.
Indra’s appointment committee, chaired by Coloma Armero, will meet tomorrow to execute Mataix’s departure and activate the succession. The company, according to sources familiar with the process, wants to complete the appointment of a new CEO within a month.
Until the election of the new number two, for the selection process Indra will hire an external consultant that will choose the best profiles, Mataix will continue to perform his current functions “to facilitate the succession process and continuity in management”, as agreed by the council of administration. Subsequently, Mataix will continue to provide services to Indra as a strategic advisor to the same board with a two-year contract.
The directors have valued “unanimously very positively and have recorded their gratitude and congratulations to Mr. Ignacio Mataix for his excellent contribution to the Transport and Defense business and for his great performance as CEO at the head of the Company, and in a The results obtained in 2022 are very special”, indicates the company.
Mataix has been Indra’s executive director since January 2018, barely half a year before the motion of no confidence that the PSOE won. In May 2021 he was appointed CEO.
With his departure, Indra completes the internal restructuring that will crystallize in the formation of a tandem between Murtra and the future CEO. A new stage in which the company seeks to increase its income and profits in its two divisions, technology and defense and transportation, in a period of increased military spending.
In 2022, Indra boosted its revenue by 20% and achieved record revenue. The order book last year stood at 6,309 million euros, which represents a growth of 16% compared to 2021.
