Previously: Chairman at Spanair (2009–2012); Ferran Soriano Compte (born 16 June 1967) is a Spanish businessman who is the chief executive officer of Premier League club Manchester City.

[1] Ferran Soriano is an MBA and Business studies graduate at ESADE, the New York RPI and Université catholique de Louvain of Belgium.

In April 2009, Soriano was elected Chairman of the Catalonia-based airline Spanair, rescued by the Catalan government from SAS with the objective of creating a hub in the Barcelona airport.

[8] In January 2013, Barcelona president Sandro Rosell claimed that "Manchester City have attempted to entice a number of staff from the Camp Nou", but added "there were no fish left".

In February 2013, Soriano was accused by the FC Barcelona board, led by Rosell, of authorising a £1.7 million e-mail surveillance of club employees suspected of "working against" Barca's then president Joan Laporta.

In May 2016, the decision was overturned by the appeal court judges who concluded that Spanair’s executives were acting in trying to "save the company," and its subsequent bankruptcy was “fortuitous”.