After graduating in law and completing a master's degree in economics at the University of Paris, he began his professional activity in 1975, in the field of electric companies.
Under his presidency, the group He consolidated as a benchmark in the world of Spanish journalism, with more than fifteen headers and eight radio stations.
In addition to refloating Diario 16, making it one of the most read newspapers in Spain.
[2] In 1989, together with Pedro J. Ramírez, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, he founded the newspaper El Mundo del Siglo XXI, and chaired the Unidad Editorial, the publishing company of this newspaper.
Director of the newspaper El Mundo (1989–2005), in a few years he placed him as the second most read diario in Spain.