Portal de Murcia
www.portaldemurcia.com
The Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) has invested the President and founder of Nortia Corporation, Manuel Lao Hernández, Doctor Honoris Causa in recognition of his career and contribution to the business world, both in Spain and Latin America, highlighting its entrepreneurial and innovative.
The event took place this morning in the Temple of the Jeronimos Monastery, located on the campus of the same University, and Pascual Fernández Martínez, Dean-President of the College of Economists of Madrid and Professor of Applied Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos , Has acted as godfather.
Under the title "Entrepreneurship and Innovation as motors of economic development," Manuel Lao has recalled in his speech his professional career since emigrating to Terrassa from his native Almería and highlighted the great support received by his family throughout his life .
He also highlighted the personal and professional qualities that any entrepreneur and entrepreneur should have and how, where appropriate, they have been instrumental in creating the first company in the gaming sector in Spain and Latin America that employs 18,000 people.
In his speech, Manuel Lao has detailed the keys to innovation in the case of the Nortia Corporation, highlighting factors such as being present in other countries at a time when few companies were considering such an option and bet on the talent of the teams.
Manuel Lao has emphasized the great digital revolution that we are living in the world of business, science, politics and how this paradigm continues to need entrepreneurs who are able to adapt new forms of innovation to employment and welfare Of humanity.
Likewise, the president of the Nortia Corporation has assured that "the country needs entrepreneurs" and that "the young people must support them, also with funding, after their passage through the university".
José Luis Mendoza, president of the UCAM, highlighted in his speech the virtues of Manuel Lao as an entrepreneur and his values ​​as a person.
José Luis Mendoza has highlighted that "we are the first and only university in Spain that has been evaluated by ANECA in all its official degree and postgraduate degrees, with a very high qualification."
In addition it has also exposed that the UCAM, at present is a very important source of generation of employment and wealth.
"We are a non-profit foundation, so all the profits generated are back to the benefit of our society."
The president of the UCAM has made reference to the research work carried out by the University, taking as an example the "great advances that Juan Carlos Izpisua, Professor of Biology of Catholic Development, is carrying out at the Salk Institute in California and In Spain, in the regeneration of organs, retinitis pigmentosa, rejuvenation, multiple sclerosis and rare diseases, investigations that are all being financed by this University.
He regretted, however, that in spite of all this, they are "many difficulties that we have always had from the beginning and that we continue to have from the various fields of Public Administration."
In this sense, Mendoza added that it is "justice, therefore, that the Regional Government respects the autonomy and freedom of our University Institution, as well as the rights of our students, who are subjected to ties and brakes, which prevent their Growth and normal development ".
The president of the Catholic University has wanted to affirm that the students of the UCAM "are being subjected to an unjust and cruel punishment by the Public Administration, not being able to do practices on an equal footing that the students of the UMU, as They had been doing for the last few years, without any problem sharing hospital services together. "
On the other hand, Josefina García Lozano, rector of the Catholic University, stated in her speech that "it is necessary for the University to approach the company, and the company to the University".
Already during the reading of the laudatio, Pascual Fernández, stressed that "Manel Lao is a leader, a great entrepreneur, an innovator and has managed to maintain this motivation over the years."
Fernández recalled that one of the great secrets of the success of the President of the Nortia Corporation has been "to be surrounded by good collaborators, good executives, and the role of an entrepreneur, with his leadership, to transmit his projects to his collaborators Manel Lao, he does it like no one else: he surrounds himself with the best teams and involves everyone, and in the end he gets everyone to believe in his projects. Delegating decision-making capacity ".
Pascual Fernández has reviewed the success story of CIRSA and has highlighted the great contribution that gambling and leisure sector makes to the economy worldwide.
Javier Morán, director of the International Chair of Food Innovation at UCAM, said: "The relationship between the University and the company must be a motor for social advances."
Monsignor Francisco Gil Hellin, archbishop emeritus of Burgos, who presided over the Eucharist, prior to his inauguration, said during the academic ceremony that "the divine virtue is in the ability to put the gifts that have been given to us Of society as exemplified by the new Doctor Honoris Causa of this University. "
SHORT PROFILE MANUEL LAO
Born in Doña María (Almería) in 1944, Manuel Lao founded CIRSA in 1978, whose growth and international expansion has been constant in these 39 years, becoming today the largest company in Spain and Latin America in the gaming and leisure sector.
In the 90s he created the Corporate University CIRSA with the objective of ensuring the correct training of the Corporation's employees and their new incorporations in the different levels and techniques.
The CIRSA Corporate University implemented the first Master in game, leisure and free time in Spain and Europe, in collaboration with the School of Business Administration and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
In 2005 he created the Manuel Lao Foundation to, according to his words, "give back to society a part of what he has received from it".
Among others, it actively supports several research projects of the UCAM in the field of Health.
In 2007, it formed NORTIA Corporation, a multinational with activity in several sectors, that invoiced over 1.9 billion euros in 2016 and employs 18,000 people between Spain, Italy, Morocco and Latin America.
Manuel Lao Hernández presides since 1994 the Spanish Confederation of Entrepreneurs of the game (COFAR) and is a member of the board of directors of the employers Foment del Treball.
Among other awards, he is the Cecot Personality Award for his professional career and his contribution to the business and economic world;
Carlos Ferrer Salat Award for the Promotion of Production to the recognition of the best entrepreneurs for the internationalization of the company;
Terrasa Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award for its trajectory and initiative in the economic and business world, and the European Golden Cross of the Spanish Association for European Development, for its outstanding trajectory in favor of universal values ​​and human rights in The union of peoples and people.
He was also awarded the Key of Barcelona by the Friends Club of Barcelona, ​​in recognition of his work in favor of the City of Barcelona.
Source: UCAM
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies