He graduated from CEU San Pablo University (affiliated to the Complutense University of Madrid) in 1985 with a B.S. degree in Economics and Business Sciences and received a Master’s degree in Commercial Management and Marketing from the Business Institute of Madrid in 1990.

He started out at Atlantic Copper in 1987 as Manager of Sales and Hedging. In 1996, he was appointed Manager of the International Marketing Division and, in 2004, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales. In 2005, he also assumed the responsibilities of Marketing Director of PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI) (a Freeport-McMoRan affiliate); in 2007, he was appointed Senior Director of Marketing & Sales of Freeport-McMoRan and, in 2013, Vice-President of Marketing & Sales of Freeport-McMoRan Sales Company Inc.