EIC elects its new President and Vice President
Bordeaux, 25 April 2025: The EIC General Assembly held on 25th of April 2025 in Bordeaux elects as its new President Gustavo Martínez from Spain and Matteo d’Aloja from Italy as new EIC Vice President.
Gustavo Martínez is the Commercial Director & Head of Digitalisation and Documentation - Bidding & Contracting Department at FERROVIAL. He has been Vice-President of EIC since 2023 and a Member of the EIC Board since 2022. Mr Martínez is a Delegate of EIC’s Spanish Member Federation, SEOPAN - Asociacion de Empresas Constructoras y Concesionarias de Infraestructuras, since the year 2002. FERROVIAL lists among the Top 10 International Contractors, operates in more than 15 countries, with main activities in North America and Europe and has a workforce of over 25,000 worldwide. Mr. Martínez is the second Spanish President in the history of EIC and he succeeds Benoît Chauvin from France who retired in accordance with the EIC Statutes after fulfilling a full 5-year mandate.
Matteo d’Aloja, Head of External Relations, Communications & Sustainability at GHELLA, is a Member of the EIC Board since 2019, representing EIC’s Italian Member Federation, ANCE - Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili, and has overlooked the redesign of the EIC corporate identity. GHELLA is led by the fifth generation of the family with operations in Oceania, Europe, North and South America, and West Asia.
The EIC General Assembly also confirmed Jesper Arkil as EIC Treasurer, a function that he holds since 2022. Mr. Arkil is Chairman of the Executive Board at Arkil Holding (Denmark) and represents EIC’s Danish Member Federation, DI Byggeri.
Additional Members of the EIC Board for the term 2025/2026 are: Başar Arioğlu (Yapı Merkezi, Türkiye), Sandra Chabrier-Martin Breil (Colas), Philippe Dessoy (Besix, Belgium), Juha Kostiainen (YIT Group, Finland), Antonios Mitzalis (Avax, Greece), Gonçalo Moura Martins (Mota-Engil, Portugal), Erwin Scherer (Implenia, Switzerland), Karl-Heinz Strauss (Porr, Austria), Peter van der Linde (Boskalis, Netherlands), Dyrik Wellershaus (Strabag International, Germany) as well as the President of FIEC, Piero Petrucco.
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