José Ignacio Hormaeche is currently the General Manager of the Basque Energy Cluster (Cluster de Energía), which brings together more than 190 companies and entities from the Basque energy sector. José Ignacio is a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from INSIDE.
In the period 2006-2013 he was General Manager of the Basque Energy Agency (EVE) and in this position he was a member of the Board of Directors of various companies such as: Naturgas Energía, Bahía Bizkaia Gas, Eólicas de Euskadi or Zabalgarbi. He has also been President of the CIC energiGUNE and of the public companies CADEM and the Euskadi Hydrocarbons Society. Between 1998 and 2006 he held various responsibilities in the GAMESA Group as General Director of SIEMSA and Director of Operations of GAMESA EÓLICA, and previously worked at COINPASA and ROBOTIKER.