Marc Thomas Murtra Millar (Blackburn, England, 1972), better known as Marc Murtra, is a Spanish engineer and entrepreneur, current President of Indra Sistemas since 2021. He is also a board member of Fundació Bancaria "la Caixa" and independent conselor of Ebro Foods, S.A.
Biography
Son of a cardiothoracic surgeon, he was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He moved to Barcelona and studied industrial engineering and specialized in Machine Mechanics at Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Afterwards, he completed his studies with an MBA in New York, at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he learned from economists such as Paul Krugman or Paul Samuelson, among others.
He started working as a nuclear industry engineer at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in the UK, and continued as a strategy consultant at DiamondCluster, where he worked for large technology companies.
In 2003 he was appointed director of the local radio station Ràdio Estel and later manager of Barcelona Televisió, Barcelona's local public broadcasting agency.
Between 2006 and 2011, he held various positions in the public sector: manager of social services at Barcelona City Council, general director of Red.es (2006) and chief of staff of Joan Clos while he was Minister of Industry (2006-2008).
In 2011 he went back to private sector and created an investment company, Crea Inversión, and later in 2020 he started working as a managing partner of the investment company Closa Investment Bankers. On the other hand, since 2017 he has been working as an assistant professor of economics and business at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona.
Throughout his career he is or has been a board member of several organizations, including the Fundación la Caixa, Paradores de Turismo de España or Inteco, (currently Spanish cibersecurity Institute, Incibe). Since 2018 he regularly publishes a monthly op-ed column at La Vanguardia.
In 2021 he was appointed Chairman of Indra Sistemas at the proposal of the Government of Spain. Since 2022 he is also an independent advisor of Ebro Foods.
He is the father of three children.