Florentino Perez

Florentino Pérez Rodríguez (Madrid, March 8, 1947) is a Spanish businessman, engineer, and politician. He is the President of the ACS Group and of Real Madrid C.F.

A Civil Engineer (Roads, Canals and Ports) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he is the widower of María Ángeles Sandoval and has three children.

He served as General Director of the Spanish Road Association from 1973 to 1976. In 1976, he became Delegate for Sanitation and Environmental Services for the Madrid City Council. In 1983, he was appointed Executive Vice President of Construcciones Padrós S.A. In 1991, he joined the Board of Directors of Société Auxiliaire d'Entreprises (SAE), a French construction company partially owned by the Spanish construction group OCISA (Obras de Construcción e Instalaciones S.A.). In 1993, he was appointed President of OCP Construcciones S.A. and of Cobra S.A., a Spanish company specialized in industrial and electrical installations.

In 1997, he became CEO of the newly formed ACS Group (Actividades de Construcción y Servicios), the result of a merger between OCP and Ginés y Navarro. As President of ACS, he was awarded the Best Businessman of the Year Award by Actualidad Económica magazine in 1999 for his outstanding career.

In 2011, he ranked 10th among Spain's wealthiest individuals and 804th in the world, according to Forbes, with an estimated personal fortune of 1.6 billion dollars.