Membership report 2010

Membership Report – US Navy League Madrid Council (October 2010)     Introduction   2010 has been a very active recruiting year for the US Navy League Madrid Council. We are very happy to welcome all five new individual members as well as the four new business associate members. The Business Associate membership is growing strongly and now includes a total of five business associates. Business Associate : MBDA Business Associate : Thales Business Associate : GMV Business Associate : Expal Individual : Eva Endress Individual : Gil Flores Individual : Victoria Krauss Individual : Arturo Baldasano Individual : Malachy Murphy   New Individual Members   Eva Endress Eva is currently a Solution Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks in Madrid. She manages products and defines the solution vision, working closely with customers, operations, technology and delivery teams, as well as subcontractors.   Eva is a German Citizen and graduated from the Technical University (Munich) with an MS in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. She also had an internship at UC Berkely for 10 months. Ms. Endress went on to obtain an MBA in International Business at Schiller International University in Madrid Spain. Prior to this, Eva worked for Siemens in Paris for eight years. Fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.   Gil Flores Gil Flores (born in Tel Aviv) is the New Head of Delegation of the Israeli Ministry of Defence in Spain and Portugal. Gil has spent most of his career at the Israeli Ministry of Defence, working as the Chief of Staff for the Managing Director of the Israeli Ministry of Defence and prior to this; he was designated to the Security Directorate of the Defence Establishment of the Israeli Ministry of Defence.    Gil completed his military service as an official in the Information Security Department within the Special Forces Intelligence unit of the Israeli Army. He graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a degree in Political Science.     Victoria Krauss Victoria Krauss was born in Manhattan and grew up throughout Europe in Italy, France, The Netherlands and he United Kingdom and speaks seven languages. Graduating from Georgetown University Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes Scholar nominee in Art and Languages, she started her career in the art world in Spain. Together with her life long partner and spouse, she launched the Galería F. Alcolea in Barcelona and New York City showing emerging and middle career Spanish and U.S. artists.   Participation in international art fairs in the U.S., Europe and Asia keeps her busy together with bringing up their three children. She is also a legal translator having worked for years for Baker and McKenzie in Barcelona. A judge for classical dressage, she rides and competes in this sport with great passion.   Arturo Baldasano     Malachy Murphy   Malachy Murphy is an Irish Citizen and currently a Key Account Executive with the Irish Company Arantech here in Madrid. Arantech is one of the premier providers of Customer Experience Management systems to communication service providers worldwide.   Malachy`s career has been concentrated in the telecoms industry, having worked for Airtel, Ericsson, Insec (in Portugal) and Aepona. He has responsibility for nine of Arantech´s mobile phone operator clients based in Europe and Africa with a subscriber base between 1 and 25 million.   Malachy graduated from Dublin City University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Applications in 1991 and a Master in Science in Computer Applications in 1993. In 2003, Malachy graduated from the Smurfit Business School of the famous University College in Dublin.   New Business Associate   MBDA MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is a multi-national group with over 9,750 employees in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany and the United State. MBDA has three major aeronautical and defence shareholders - BAE Systems (37.5%), EADS (37.5%) and Finmeccanica (25%), and is the first truly integrated European defence company. In 2009, the Group recorded a turnover of €2.6 billion, produced over 3,000 missiles and achieved an order book of €12 billion. MBDA works with over 90 armed forces worldwide. MBDA was created in December 2001, after the merger of the main missile producers in France, Italy and Great Britain. Each of these companies contributed the experience gained from fifty years of technological and operational success. The restructuring of the industry in Europe was completed with the acquisition of the German subsidiary EADS/LFK in March 2006. This further enriched MDBA’s range of technologies and products, consolidating the Group’s world-leading position in the industry. MBDA is the only Group capable of designing and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). Overall, the Group offers a range of 45 products in service and another 15 in development. Thales The Thales Group is a French electronics company delivering information systems and services for the Aerospace, Defence and Security Markets. Headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine and is listed on the Euronext Paris.   The company changed its name to Thales from Thomson-CSF in December 2000 shortly after the £1,300 million acquisition of Racal Electronics plc, a UK defense electronics group. It is now partially state-owned by the French State, and has operations in more than 50 countries. It has 68,000 employees and generated €12.9 billion in revenues in 2009. The Group is ranked as the 485th largest company by Fortune 500 Global and is the 9th largest defense contractor in the world. A total of 63% of its sales are to the military.   GMV GMV is a Spanish privately owned technological business group with an international presence. Founded in 1984, GMV offers its solutions, services and products in very diverse sectors: Aeronautics, Banking and Finances, Space, Defence, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications, and Information Technology for Public Administration and large corporations.   GMV has sales of €93 million in 2009 and 1030 employees   Expal Expal is a Spanish Company that develops and manufactures systems and services for the maintenance and improvement of operational capacities of armies and for the defence and protection of their troops. Expals products are present in the armed forces of over 35 countries. The company has a total number of 600 employees, located in 9 production centres in 4 countries. The company represents the defence division of the Maxam Group (www.maxam-corp.com), one of the worlds leading manufactures of explosives, initiation systems and competition and field cartridges. The company has an annual turnover of more than €800 million and more than 6.000 professionals located in over 40 countries.

Membership Report George Mahl - Membership Chairman  Our last report was seen in the Summer 2007 issue and since then there have been several changes in our membership.   The most important was the inclusion of INDRA, one of the most important suppliers to the Defense Oriented industries and to the Armed forces as CORPORATE GOLD MEMBERS, into the Madrid Council.   They will be represented at our events by:   Ana Belén Buendía Núñez   -  Business Development Manager – Armada Española Domingo Castro                     - Director Integrated Defense Systems Fernando García                     - Director Cooperative programs   INDRA joins the exclusive group of Madrid Corporate Members, they being Lockheed Martin (Platinum), and EDS.   Regarding Lockheed Martin, we were most pleased to welcome their new Consejero  Delegado, OCTAVIO MANDULEY, born in Cuba but fortunately was able to get out. Octavio served in the US Navy and was the Commanding Officer of the Guided Missile Frigate, USS SIDE prior to leaving to enter industry. He has a degree in Political Sciences from the University of South Carolina and is accompanied by his vivacious wife, Suzette. We wish Octavio every success in his new posting and hope that he will be with us for a long time.   RICHARD BONCEY is an attorney with the prestigious law firm Ventura Garcés & Lopéz-Ibor as their head of International Relations. Besides his law degrees he also has a BS in Engineering from the University of Illinois in Chicago. His academics include studies at Columbia Univ., Hague Academy of Intl. Law, the Univ. of Brussels, and Advanced Management at the Harvard .   Richards business experience includes stints with Winston & Straw, Intl. Fragrance Association, Cambridge Technology Partner Dade Behring, Meditronic, and Honeywell.  He has made his home in Madrid with his wife, Johanne.   NICHOLAS (NICK) HAYES is a Banker and Consultant serving as the Senior Consultant for AFS – Automated Financial Systems. For you old-timers, he is also the son-in-law of Lt. General Stanley (Moose) Donovan who headed up the US contingent in Torrejón many years ago. He is married to Sheila – and we look forward to seeing them both at many of our events.   FRANCISCO PARRA CUADRO until just recently was a General de División (2-star) del Cuerpo General de las Armas del Ejercito de Tierra. He is still in the “Reserva” but is now the Director of Business Development – Aerospace and Defense for the well known firm ELIMCO.   General Parra’s varied military background was initiated in the Infantry.  He served for 11 years at the Spanish Embassy in Washington as the Attaché and as a result speaks impeccable English. He then served for 4 years (1996-2000) as the advisor to the then Vice President of the Government, Sr, Alvaréz Cascos. Until 2003 he was the Director General Adjunto for Armaments and Material after which he rose to be the Subdirector General of Plans and Programs for the Dirección General de Armamento y Material.   He now enjoys having more time to spend with his wife, Celina Benítez Cruz and family, and we welcome aboard an Infantryman.   ARTURO LUJAN is the new Consejero Delegado of 3M since the beginning of the year and hails from Mexico as does his charming wife Heidy.   Arturo worked as the Deputy Managing Director of 3M-Mexico before being promoted to the position of Managing Director of the 3M Andean Division, headquartered in Lima, Peru. He hopes to introduce the wide range of  3Mproducts being successfully used by the US Navy to the Spanish Armada and we wish him lots of success. It should be mentioned that 3M is a Gold Corporate Member of the National US Navy League and perhaps we will someday have them as Madrid Council Corporate Members.   AUGUSTO d’ANGLADE is our newest addition from the Armada, he having been a Contralmirante Jefe Ingeniero de Armamento and is now in the Active Reserve with 44 years of service behind him.   His naval service includes that of Naval Attaché at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, Armaments Coounsellor at the Embassy in NATO Headquarters – Brussels, and eventually the Deputy Director for Engineering in the Jefatura del Apoyo Logístico. Among other things he is a member of the Asociación de Alumnos del Curso de Defensa Nacional del CESEDEN.   Augusto and his lovely wife, Maria Isabel now enjoy retirement at their home in Madrid.   INÉS DE ALVEAR TRENOR is and attorney with one of the most prestigious and largest law firms in Madrid, Uriá Menéndez, belonging to the Transport & Logistic Group which includes related transactions and practices such as Mergers & Acquisitions of transport companies and all related financing.   Inés spent her last year in High School in San Francisco and after receiving her law degree became a member of the International Bar Association and the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. She and her husband, Jaime Jiménez Aguirre  make their home in Madrid. Welcome Aboard to Inés, and if anyone wants to buy a shipping company just see her.                                                                       We are currently in close contact with General Electric, SENER, Boeing, Acciona and others and hope that in our next report we can include them as members.