José María Álvarez Pallete, former president of Telefónica, joins the Europe & Latin America (ELA) Advisory Committee, Market Unit headed by Sanitas. This division groups the businesses of the British BUPA, owner of Sanitas, in Spain, Chile, Poland, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala and Colombia. The new signing of Sanitas was president and executive of the Telefónica Group between 2016 and 2025 and a member of its Board of Directors from 2006 to 2025.
Álvarez Pallete thus integrates into an organ that has advisory and advisory functions and does not perform executive work.
It has five members who are independent except Iñaki Peralta, who is CEO of Sanitas Seguros and BUPA Europe & Latinamerica. Peralta is part of the Bupa Management Committee.
Matías Rodríguez Iniarte presides over the committee and is also a non -executive president and external counselor of Sanitas, and BUPA counselor. Manuel Pizarro is Sanitas external counselor, presides over his risk committee and is a member of his Audit commission.
Cristina de Parias is the external counselor of Sanitas and member of her risks committee and president of her audit commission. The list closes with Antonio Martos, who is Global Health Director in Minsait (Indra Group).
This committee seeks to improve the governance of BUPA activity in ELA countries and provide independent advice to the company’s businesses in these geographical areas.
For this, the company points out, the members of the Committee have experience in the countries that are part of this market unit and in the business of BUPA ELA, which include, among others, insurance, hospital provision, finance, legal, regulatory, IT and digital, as well as experience in international markets in Europe and Latin America.
