The Board of Directors of the Association of the Food Industry of Castilla y León, Vitartis, has chosen by unanimously to Pedro Ruiz Aragoneses, CEO of Alma de Carraovejas, as the new president, after Beatriz Escudero announced that she was leaving office.
Until now, Pedro Ruiz Aragoneses held the vice-presidency of the Association, to which the company belongs since 2015, a position he shared with the CEO of Campofrío, Javier Dueñas, who will remain as vice-president.
The The replacement of the presidency will be effective next Tuesday, March 9, in the General Assembly that Vitartis will celebrate electronically. Escudero will give the witness to Ruiz Aragoneses after three years at the head of the Association.
In addition, Javier Labarga (Cetece) is part of this management body, as secretary, and as members: Santiago Miguel Casado (Grupo Hermi), Miguel Antona San Millán (Innoporc), Gustavo Herranz (Viveros Campiñas), Luis Felipe Ronda (Lessafre Ibérica), Isabel López (Santa Teresa), Roberto Robles (Lactiber) and Juan Luis Rivero (AB Azucarera).
The life of Pedro Ruiz Aragoneses (Segovia, 1982), a graduate in Psychology, has been linked to the family business from a very young age, although it was not until 2007 when he became CEO of Pago de Carraovejas. Later, he completed his studies in business management by completing the Castilla y León AMP at IE Business School and the Senior Management Program at the same school. He has also completed the Superior Course for Family Business Consultants in Barcelona.
Currently, in addition to the Pago de Carraovejas winery, in Peñafiel, Pedro Ruiz leads different wine and gastronomic projects under the Alma Carraovejas concept, which seeks to generate unique experiences around wine, always with the higher purpose of building a unique legacy. Among the projects that comprise it, Ossian Vides y Vinos, in Nieva (Segovia); Viña Meín-Emilio Rojo, in Leiro (Ourense); Milsetentayseis, in Fuentenebro (Burgos) or its new project in Rioja Alavesa at the foot of the Sierra de Cantabria, in Leza. In addition, Pedro Ruiz has just started SV Wines, a small wine importer that was born with the vocation of facilitating access to the most unique places in the world.
Its long relationship with the world of restoration is the origin of Alma’s new gastronomic commitment: Ambivium Restaurant, located in the Pago de Carraovejas winery, opened in March 2017 and recently won its first Michelin Star.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Vitartis since 2016 and vice president since 2018; in turn, he holds the vice-presidency of the Castilla y León Family Business Association. In addition, he is director of the Master in Management and Warehouse Management of the Business School of the Chamber of Commerce of Valladolid and a member of the Iberaval board of directors.
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