Born in 1978, Juan Santamaría Cases was unanimously elected as HOCHTIEF's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by the Supervisory Board of HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft in July 2022. As of July 20, he succeeded Marcelino Fernández Verdes, who had led the company since November 2012. Juan Santamaría Cases has been a member of the Group for more than 20 years. He began his career at ACS in 2002 after graduating as a Civil Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Between 2002 and 2006, he held different positions at Iridium and Dragados as Engineer and Project Director. Following the function of CEO at ACS Infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada from 2006 to 2013, he was President and CEO at Iridium between 2013 and 2015. From August 2015 to January 2017, he worked as Executive Manager for CPB in Australia and, in 2017, he was appointed CEO of the Industrial and Services Company UGL. From September 2017 to February 2020, he was Managing Director of CPB Contractors and Leighton, with operations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Most recently, he served as CEO of CIMIC from February 2020 until May 2022 and as Executive Chairman of CIMIC since November 2020. He was appointed CEO at ACS Group in May 2022.