Francisco Arteche graduated in Industrial Engineering from the University of Navarra in San Sebastián and has an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. With a long and prolific career behind him, he has held executive posts in the technology sector for 20 years and he spent the last eleven years at Microsoft, the world leader in applications and software. Prior to joining Euskaltel, he was the General Manager of the Microsoft Ibérica Consumer Channel Group, a company which he joined as Director of the Entertainment & Devices Division for Central and Southern Europe and, subsequently, for the whole of Western Europe. Previously, he had been the General Manager of Electronic Arts (EA Software) for Spain and Portugal, where he worked for seven years. Francisco is a member of the AMETIC (Association of Electronics, Information and Communications Technologies, Telecommunications and Digital Content Companies) Executive Board, member of the ICA (Institute of Corporate Directors) and has been a member of the Board of ISFE (Interactive Software Federation of Europe), along with being the executive sponsor within Microsoft on the AECOC Board (the largest Spanish Association of Manufacturers and Distributors) and Chair of the ADESE (Spanish Association of Software Manufacturers and Developers) sectoral association.