Julio Linares López. Non-Executive Director

Profile

Julio Linares is a telecommunications engineer who joined Telefónica’s R&D Centre in May 1970 and held various positions there before being appointed Head of Telefónica’s Technology department in 1984.

In April 1990 he was appointed General Manager of Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (Telefónica I + D).

In December 1994 he became Deputy General Manager of Telefónica’s Marketing and Services Development department, in the commercial area, subsequently moving to the position of Deputy General Manager for Corporate Marketing.

In July 1997 he was appointed CEO of Telefónica Multimedia, and President of Telefónica Cable and Producciones Multitemáticas.

In May 1998 he was appointed General Manager of Strategy and Technology in Telefónica, S.A.’s Corporate Centre.

He has been Executive Chairman of Telefónica de España since January 2000, as well as a member of the board of Telefónica Data Corp.

In June 2005 was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cesky Telecom.

In December 2005 he became Managing Director for Coordination, Business Development and Synergies in Telefónica S.A., where he is also a Member of the Board of Directors and Secretary for the Executive Committee.

He is a member of the Board of The Social Council, Complutense University of Madrid.

He was appointed to the O2 Board on 23 January 2006 after the Telefónica offer for O2 went unconditional.