Joan Gual de Torrella Guasp takes up the post of Chairman of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands
Palma de Mallorca
14/08/2015
The Spanish Official Gazette today published the Spanish Development Ministry Order detailing the appointment of Joan Gual de Torrella Guasp as the new Chairman of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) to replace the outgoing Chairman, Alberto Pons Fernández. The new Chairman, who was born in Palma de Majorca in 1956, was a member of the APB’s Board of Directors from 2006 to 2013, representing the Majorcan Chamber of Commerce. He has had close ties to the Chamber over the past two decades and was its Chairman from 2006-2013. On the business front, he founded MENU Mallorca and was the firm’s Managing Director from 1979 to 2014. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Majorcan Economic Society, which he promoted and of which he was Deputy Chairman, and is a member of the Economic and Social Council at the University of the Balearic Islands, a position he has held since 2006. He also chaired INSULEUR, the Network of the Insular Chambers of Commerce of the European Union from 2009 to 2014. He held different positions in the Higher Council of the Spanish Chambers of Commerce, chairing the Tourism Committee, and in the Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce (ASCAME), and the International Chamber of Commerce (CCI). He also promoted and chaired the Bonaire-Santo Sepulcro Trade Association, the Balearic Islands’ Young Entrepreneurs Association, and the Spanish Young Entrepreneurs Association. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of CAEB, and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs YES FOR EUROPE. He was a member of the Majorcan Tourist Board for seven years, a Commissioner for the Balearic Islands in the Euroregion Pyrenees-Mediterranean EGTC, a member of ENDESA’s Balearic Islands Regional Council, and of the University-Business Foundation Trust (FUE).
