Álvaro Gómez Vieites has PhDs in: Economics and Business Administration from UNED (Distinction), Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad de Vigo (End of Course Distinction) and Information Management Engineering from UNED. He completed his education with various postgraduate courses, including Executive MBA and Diploma in Business Adminstration from the Escuela de Negocios Caixanova. He has been Director of Information Control aand Management Systems at the latter and assistant director of SIMCe.