The author of these statements is the new president of the Las Palmas Business Circle: "Gran Canaria is losing competitiveness because it has an obsolete Island Council" and "I ran from the police during the demonstrations for the creation of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; let's not diminish that." Both were made in 2018 to the Madrid newspaper Cinco Días and have never been clarified . Were there people who ran from the police in support of the University of Las Palmas? It seems so.
And this Tuesday, the Las Palmas Business Circle confirmed Juan Ramírez Said (Inetel, the former Contactel and Serviport) as the new president of the entity and replaces Agustín Manrique. The new board is completed by Oliver Alonso, president of Domingo Alonso and member of the board of BBVA in the Canary Islands, Alicia Martinón, president of the Grumasa hotel company, owner of Intercasa tomato sauce, and José Julio Artiles, CEO of Satocan, owners del Salobre Golf, respectively, as vice president, treasurer, and secretary. The members of the Las Palmas Business Circle come from sectors such as construction, tourism, food, commerce, distribution, mobility, health, technology, innovation and investments.
The board continues: Alberto Cabré (Atlantis), Fernando del Castillo (Vega Grande County), Eustasio López (Lopesan), Mario Romero Mur (Mur Hoteles), Juan Miguel Sanjuan (Satocan), Jürgen Flick (Cordial Hoteles), Mario Rodríguez (San Roque Health Group), Antonio Bonny (SAT Bonny), Manuel Freire (Freiremar) Rafael Méndez (Arehucas), Pedro Agustín del Castillo (Casticapital), Javier Puga (Hiperdino), Germán Carlos Suárez (Astican), Dhiraj Chhabria (Fund Grube), Francisco López (Lopesan), Luis Roca (Roca Office Invest), Herminia Rodríguez (San Roque), Sergio Arencibia (Emicela), Andrés Domínguez (Hiperdino), Laura Galarzam (Galaco), Susana del Castillo (Casticapital) , Rodolfo Núñez (Binter), José Acosta Matos, Raju Daswani (Sabina Group) and Pedro Andueza (Verlorcios TIC).
Ramírez Said used socialist terminology when he stated that he wanted to "value" Agustín Manrique's efforts for his "moderate" profile. No mention has been made that Manrique de Lara is the gray brain of tourism on the islands and the one who has brought together the entire business community on the island in favor of tourism just when he is being attacked by extremist populism. Stronger words have been missed in favor of Manrique de Lara. Ramírez has spoken of "betting on a more productive model, one that is more competitive" and, paraphrasing the PSOE, he has included in his first institutional message that tagline of "not leaving anyone behind."
Ramírez Said founded Contactel in 1999, which, after 25 years, with other regional partners to sell remote assistance services and create call centers or technological assistance. Thus, the company began to grow with the Canary Islands Government Cyber Center or the management of 112 or 012 calls, the latter of which has a cost even though the information is free.
