Education
Luis Villarroya holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an MBA from Northwestern University in Chicago.
About
He has served as President of TECNIBERIA (Spanish Association of Engineering Firms), where he currently remains a member of the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of FEPAC (Pan-American Federation of Consultants), Vice President and Board Member of FIDIC, Vice President of the Board of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Water and Sanitation Cooperation Fund (FCAS) under the State Secretariat for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. Additionally, he sits on the Strategic Guidance Council of ICEX Spain Trade and Investment (under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism), is an active member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Association of Civil Engineers, and a Trustee of Tecnalia.
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What motivated you to join Eptisa?
After 38 years at Eptisa, it’s not easy to pinpoint what originally motivated me to stay. I suppose, at first, it was the feeling of being part of a company with a strong personality — a company with soul. I had previously worked for four American multinational corporations, and the contrast was fascinating. Over the years, I stayed because Eptisa has always allowed me to evolve. I never spent more than two years doing the same thing — always new challenges. I haven’t been bored a single day in those 38 years.
How do you envision the future of the sector over the next 10 years?
The changes our sector will experience in the near future are so profound that they are hard to fully grasp. Consulting engineering firms will no longer carry out projects as we know them today — that will be done by any AI package. Instead, they will become managers of sustainable solutions, working in close collaboration with the communities that will benefit from them.
What do you value most in your team?
What I value most is loyalty — but not a misguided notion of it. The most loyal person to a company is not the one who stays for 20 years just showing up to work, but the one who stays for one year giving their very best every single day.
