Victor Grifols

Biography

 Víctor Grífols Roura was born in Barcelona in 1950. He studied Business Administration at the University of Barcelona. He joined Grifols in 1973 as Export Manager and later went on to assume the role of Director of Sales of the company. During the eighties he was at the forefront of the company's growth across the Spanish market. In 1985 he succeeded his father in the position of CEO and in 1987 he proceeded to reorganize the entire structure of the Grifols holding and to propel the company's international growth, which commenced in Portugal and Latin America and culminated recently with subsidiaries in twenty-four countries around the world. In 2001, he takes over from his father as president of the group, and is the driving force in a series of corporate acquisitions, essentially in the United States, that will convert Grifols into the world's leading supplier of plasma and its third-largest producer of plasma therapies. The American Chamber of Commerce in Spain presented Víctor Grífols with the Global Business Leader Award in 2010 in recognition of his professional career and the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce nominated him Business Leader of the Year in 2011.

Research Interest

  Business Administration