She replaces Mª Jesús Lorente at the head of the association of women managers.
The Aragonese Association of Women Entrepreneurs (Arame) held an electoral general assembly yesterday in which María López Palacín was elected president of the organisation for the next four years. The manager of the López Soriano Group headed the only candidacy presented.
The new board of directors is made up of Myriam Monterde Maldonado, director of Arte por cuatro, with the position of first vice-president of Arame, together with Ana Cristina Esteban Baranda, manager of Alcanalytics, second vice-president. Miriam Almazán Monge, managing partner of Afiris; Nathalia Antas Martínez, CEO of Zaragoza Servicios; Ana Belén Arcos Uribe, of Posada Abadía de Siétamo; Irene Carmen Lequerica, executive director of DICSA; Cristina Gallart Saura, president of Fribin; Nieves García Casarejos, director of the Guidance and Employment Service and of the Expert Degree in Social Responsibility Management at the University of Zaragoza; Charo Guillén Mateo, creator of Mercabarrio; Beatriz López Sanz, director of Ibermac; Ana López Trenco, manager of Asapme; and Olga Pinilla Barcelona, director of Arteymerchan.
López Palacín takes over from María Jesús Lorente Ozcáriz who has been at the head of the association since 2008 and who last March was elected president of the employers’ association Cepyme Zaragoza.
‘I want to thank you for the work done so far and to keep everything that has worked well in Arame, as well as the 12 women who said yes when I invited them to be on the new board,’ said the new Arame president. ‘We believe that the diversity of the new board is the perfect mirror of the members,’ she added.
López assured that she and her team will try to give visibility not only to the association, but also to the members, ‘trying to find solutions to the common problems we have, without closing the doors to any of the other organisations in our region’. All of this, she continued, ‘occupying our place, looking for points of union and alternatives to the daily problems we have, in the case of Arame, mainly associated with our gender’. ‘We have come a long way but there is still a long way to go’, he concluded.
López Palacín is also Honorary Consul of Germany in Aragón. In recent years she has held positions in various institutions and organisations. She has been vice-president of the Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce, member of the Executive Committee of the Zaragoza Trade Fair and of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain and patron of the different entities that make up the San Valero Group.
Article published in El Periódico de Aragón on 30/06/2021
