Organizational structure

• Chair: Mr. Rodrigo Buenaventura
• Vice-Chair: Ms. Montserrat Martínez Parera
• Board member: Mr. Mariano Bacigalupo Saggese
• Board member: Ms. María Dolores Beato Blanco
• Board member: Ms. Helena Viñes
• Board member: Paula Conthe (General Secretary of the Treasury and International Financing)
• Board member: Ms. Soledad Núñez (Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain)
• Secretary: Ms. Patricia Muñoz González-Úbeda

The CNMV is governed by the Board, which is responsible for exercising all the powers conferred by the Securities Market Law and those attributed by the Government or the Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness in the regulatory development of the same.

Within the framework of the functions attributed and in order to dully exercise its competencies, it has the following powers:

• Approving circulars.
• Approving the internal Regulation of the CNMV.
• Approving the CNMV’s draft budgets.
• Constituting the Executive Committee.
• Appointing and removal the CNMV´s executive staff.
• Approving the annual reports reflecting their performance and the general situation of the stock markets.
• Approving annually a report on the supervisory function of the CNMV.
• Referring the financial statements for the financial year to the Government for approval.
• Approving or proposing all matters that correspond to it by law.

• Chair: Mr. Rodrigo Buenaventura
• Vice-Chair: Ms. Montserrat Martínez Parera
• Board member: Ms. María Dolores Beato Blanco
• Board member: Ms. Helena Viñes
• Board member: Mariano Bacigalupo Saggese
• Secretary: Ms. Patricia Muñoz González-Úbeda

The Executive Committee has the following functions and powers:

• Preparing and studying the issues to be submitted to the CNMV Board.
• Studying, informing and deliberating on the matters submitted by the President for consideration.
• Coordinating the actions of the Commission’s various management bodies, without prejudice to the powers of the President.
• Approving the acquisitions and disposal of assets of the Commission.
• Granting the administrative authorizations for which it is empowered by the Board, and exercising those powers expressly conferred on it by the Board.

• Chair: Montserrat Martínez Parera
• Secretary: Patricia Muñoz González-Úbeda
• Technical Secretary: Víctor Rodríguez Quejido
• Representatives from market infrastructures
  • Representative: Beatriz Alonso-Majagranzas Cenamor
  • Alternate: María Calvo Pérez
  • Representative: Luis Martínez Pérez
  • Alternate: Beatriz Senís Gilmartín
  • Representative: Ignacio Olivares Blanco
  • Alternate: Aránzazu Ullivarri Royuela
• Representatives from Issuers
  • Representative: Consuelo Barbé Capdevila
  • Alternate: Mª Belén Plaza Cruz
  • Representative: Lucas Osorio Iturmendi
  • Alternate: Javier Rodríguez Vega
• Representatives from Investors
  • Representative: Ángel Martínez-Aldama Hervás
  • Alternate: Virginia Arizmendi Ortega
  • Representative: Elisa Ricón Holgueras
  • Alternate: Laura PalomoAguado
  • Representative: Enrique García López
  • Alternate: Manuel Pardos Vicente
  • Representative: Víctor Cremades Erades
  • Alternate: Daniel Herrero Lorente
• Representatives from credit institutions and insurance companies
  • Representative: Javier Rodríguez Pellitero
  • Alternate: Patricia Rodríguez Fernández de Castro
  • Representative: Antonio Jesús Romero Mora
  • Alternate: Raquel Cabeza Pérez
  • Representative: Cristina Freijanes Presmanes
  • Alternate: Zorione Arregui Elkorobarrutia
  • Representative: María Aránzazu del Valle Schaan
  • Alternate: Luis Miguel Ávalos Muñoz
• Representing professional groups
  • Representative: Víctor Alió Sanjuán
  • Alternate: Valentín Pich Rosell
  • Representative: Alfredo Jiménez Fernández
  • Alternate: Lola Solana Campins
• Renowned professionals
  • Representative: Gloria Hernández Aler
  • Alternate: José Ramón del Caño Palop
• Representatives from the Investment Guarantee Fund
  • Representative: Ignacio Santillán Fraile
  • Alternate: Carme Hortalà Vallvé
• Representatives from Autonomous Regions with an official secondary market
  • Basque Country
    • Representative: Hernando Lacalle Edeso
    • Alternate: Arantza Larrauri Aranguren
  • Catalonia
    • Representative: Josep María Sánchez Pascual
    • Alternate: Alba Curriá Reynal
  • Valencian Community
    • Representative: Nicolás Jannone Bellot
    • Alternate: Roberto Esteve Carbonell

• General Director : Mr. José María Marcos Bermejo

Investment Firm and Credit and Savings Institution Department:

• Head of Department: Mr. Juan Alcaide Guindo
• Functions: Supervision, inspection and intervention of investment firms and crowdfunding platforms, and supervision of compliance with rules of conduct in the securities market by credit and savings institutions when they provide investment services.

CIS and Venture Capital Firm Supervision Department

• Head of Department: Ms. Teresa González Bedia
• Functions: Supervision, inspection and intervention of CIS and venture capital firms

Institution Authorisation and Registration Department

• Head of Department: D. Luis Martín Hernández
• Functions: Creation and institutional monitoring of investment firms, CIS, venture capital firms and crowdfunding platforms

Money Laundering Prevention Unit

• Head of Unit: Mr. José María Díaz Taboada
• Functions: Supervision of compliance with obligations related to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing by obliged entities under the prudential supervision of the CNMV

• General Director: Mr. Ángel Benito Benito

Secondary Markets Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Javier Ruiz del Pozo
• Functions:
  • Supervision of market trading and post-trading (clearing and settlement) infrastructures and their members. Supervision of the secondary markets, including prevention and detection of market abuse. Regulatory disclosures to the market
  • Delistings and suspensions of trading.
  • National supervision of credit rating agencies.
  • Management and coordination of the Spanish national numbering agency, ANCV.

Primary Markets Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Jorge Pereiro Couceiro
• Functions:
  • Primary and secondary offerings, and listing, of securities.
  • Takeover bids

Financial and Corporate Information Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Eduardo Manso Ponte
• Functions:
  • Implementation of the powers attributed to the CNMV with regard to auditing and accounting of listed companies
  • Supervision of financial disclosures and auditors´ reports of listed companies
  • Significant holdings and treasury stock in listed companies.

Market Surveillance Unit

• Head of Unit: Carlos Sánchez-Vilar Burdiel
• Functions:
  • Supervision and investigation in the field of market abuse

• General Director: Ms. Patricia Muñoz González-Úbeda

Deputy Directorate-General

• Deputy General Director: Juan Rodríguez de la Rúa Puig
• Functions:
  • Legal advice to the CNMV´s governing bodies and management
  • Legal comment on draft regulations and on matters to be submitted to the CNMV Board or Executive Committee
  • Litigation Department
  • Pursuit of penalty proceedings and drafting of proposals for resolution
  • Complaints handling

Investor Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Jesualdo Domínguez-Alcahud Martín-Peña
• Functions:
  • Supervision and inspection of entities that breach the rules on naming.
  • Handling investor complaints
  • Responding to investor queries
  • Receiving and forwarding alerts on alleged violations of securities market rules and discipline
  • Keeping a register of minority shareholder associations

• General Director: Mr. Víctor Rodríguez Quejido

Policy, Innovation and Sustainable Finance Department

• Head of Department: Ms. Raquel García Alcubilla
• Functions:
  • Support for the CNMV´s senior and management bodies in relations with other Spanish agencies and institutions
  • Coordination of strategic analysis and assessment of draft regulations
  • Drafting and monitoring of the CNMV´s annual Activities Plan
  • Coordination of relations with market participants and the technical secretariat of the Advisory Committee
  • Assessment of the CNMV´s policies and risk management systems and proposal of strategies and plans, as well as coordination of a risk committee.
  • Planning and implementing activities to improve investors´ financial education
  • Overseeing the role of the Communication Department in managing, maintaining and updating the CNMV website
  • Coordination of strategic analysis and assessment of matters and projects related to fintech and cybersecurity in the area of securities markets.
  • Coordination of strategic analysis and assessment of matters and projects related to sustainable finance in the area of securities markets.

International Affairs Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Antonio Mas Sirvent
• Functions:
  • Support for the CNMV´s senior and management bodies in international relations
  • Coordination of the CNMV´s participation in international agencies and programmes

Research and Statistics Department

• Head of Department: Mr. Eudald Canadell Casanova
• Functions:
  • Studies and reports on the securities  markets an their agents
  • Elaboration, maintenance and publication of CNMV’s statistical information
  • Coordinationn and cooperation with Bank of Spain’s statistical department in relation to European Central Bank’s statistical information requirements,  as well as any other  issue related to statistical information
  • Elaboration of CNMV’s Annual Report and quarterly reports as well as Financial Stability reports, among others
  • Monitoring and elaboration of studies, including the construction and updating of indicators, related to financial stability. Coordination and representation of the CNMV at the International level in the works and issues related to systemic risk and financial stability, in particular at the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)
  • Elaboration and coordination of CNMV’s work whithin the Macroprdential Authority Financial Stability Committee (AMCESFI)
  • Valuation of complex  financial products and operations
  • Direction of CNMV’s publications

Resolution and Financial Stability specific Tasks Unit

• Head of Unit: María José Gómez Yubero
• Functions:
  • Internal coordination, analysis, report and proposal regarding resolution
  • Internal coordination, analysis, report and proposal regarding benchmarks
  • Specific tasks related to financial stability

• Head of Department: Ms. María del Carmen García Franquelo
• Functions:
  • Internal audits of the CNMV to ensure it maintains an appropriate profile of compliance, efficacy, efficiency and quality in pursuit of its objectives
  • Production of an auditors´ report on the CNMV´s supervisory activities for inclusion in the CNMV´s Annual Report regarding its actions and the securities markets

• Head of Department: Mr. José Ramón Zuazua Fernández
• Functions:
  • Planning and managing the CNMV´s computer systems
  • Designing, programming, implementing and maintaining the CNMV´s software applications
  • Directing the CNMV´s computer security policy and providing technical support to the CNMV´s other units

• General Secretary: Ms. Natalia Vitores Mingo
• Functions:
  • Financial and administrative management
  • Training

Vice-Secretariat General

• Vice-Secretary General: Sergio García Domínguez
• Functions:
  • Personnel management
  • Recruiting & Talent policies
  • Official registers

• Head of Department: Mr. Alberto Estévez Lucas
• Functions:
  • Media Relations
  • Institutional Events Organization
  • Managing, maintaining and updating the CNMV website