26 March – Conference on ‘Interim management in family businesses’

Next Thursday, 26 March, at 6.30 pm, the European University Miguel de Cervantes (Valladolid) will host a conference entitled ‘Interim management in family businesses’, featuring Emilio del Prado, who acts as the representative for Castile and León of the Interim Management Spain Association.

Interim management as a solution to current problems: family businesses face various situations for which they lack the necessary leadership and management skills, and bringing in external managers places a structural burden that they cannot sustain in the long term.

Through ‘interim management’ (the temporary provision of managerial expertise), they have access to the most effective solution for addressing a temporary management need within their businesses.

The planned agenda for the day is as follows:

18:30 – Opening – Imelda Rodríguez Escanciano, Vice-Chancellor of the UEMC 18:35 – What is interim management? – Emilio del Prado – Castile and León Representative of the Interim Management Spain Association 18:50 – Family businesses – José Antonio Otero – Director of the Santander Family Business Chair at UEMC 19:00 – Round table 1: Case studies featuring interim managers

Participants: Pío Iglesias – President of the Interim Management Spain Association and Interim Manager Jesús Parra Ruíz – Interim Manager in family businesses Alberto Quintanilla – Interim Manager in financial management César Otero – Member of the Interim Management Spain Association Moderator: Antonio Sastre – Family mediation lawyer

19:25 – Round table 2: Case studies featuring companies that hire interim managers

Participants: Javier Esteban – Owner of Vivero El Pinar (Segovia) Tomás González Caballero – Managing Director of Veratya Estrategias Corporativas (Madrid) César Rodríguez Gabilondo – Managing Director of Machinepoint (Valladolid) Sebastián Arias – Chairman of Alentia and former Chairman of INDAL Moderator: Eduardo Estévez – Director of the CyL Family Business Association

19:50 – Closing remarks: Alfonso Jiménez – Chair of the Castile and León Family Business Association 20:00 – Networking with Spanish wine

The event is organised by the Miguel de Cervantes European University (UEMC), in collaboration with the Spanish Interim Management Association and the Castile and León Family Business Association, with Castilla y León Económica as media partner.

About the Miguel de Cervantes European University:

The Miguel de Cervantes European University (UEMC) is a private, independent university with around 1,500 students on its Valladolid campus. Since its foundation in 2002, it has provided high-quality, student-centred education through personalised support, small class sizes and a blend of theoretical and practical training in classrooms and laboratories. In the 2012–2013 academic year, it expanded its campus with a new building, increasing its teaching and research facilities by 60 per cent.

About the Santander Chair in Family Business:

The Chair in Family Business at the Miguel de Cervantes European University was established following an agreement signed with the Castile and León Family Business Association and the Spanish Family Business Institute on 12 January 2009. Its aim is to incorporate the study of family business into the academic and practical training of Business Administration.

About the Interim Management Spain Association:

Interim España, the Spanish Interim Management Association, is a private, socially responsible initiative promoted by individuals committed to the professional future of Spanish management talent. Interim España’s mission is to represent and support, on a not-for-profit basis, highly qualified professionals who have held or currently hold leadership roles within the Spanish business sector, both in society and before institutions, promoting the concept of interim management as an alternative for job creation, and as a strategic tool for companies needing to navigate a process of change.

About the Castile and León Family Business Association:

The Family Business Association of Castile and León

is an association bringing together around a hundred of the most prominent family businesses in the Autonomous Community, leaders in their respective sectors, whose combined turnover accounts for 17 per cent of GDP and which employ 7 per cent of the working population of Castile and León in the private sector.