Enric Rovira, new director of Banco Sabadell in Catalonia

Relief at the head of Banco Sabadell's commercial network in Catalonia. The until now director of the Catalan territorial division, Xavier Comerma, has been appointed new director of Risk Management of the entity and has been replaced by Enric Rovira Masachs, the executive who until now occupied this position in the bank chaired by Josep Oliu.

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Rovira (Barcelona, 1965), who holds the rank of deputy general director, has worked at Sabadell since 2006 and has held multiple responsibilities, such as director of Investment Banking, director of Business Banking, head of Corporate Banking and Global Businesses, and director of Asset Transformation, Industrial and Real Estate Holdings. In 2019, he acceded to the direction of Risk Management and now goes on to lead the entity's branches in Catalonia.

According to Sabadell's CEO, Jaume Guardiola, Rovira's election responds to his "extensive experience in commercial functions and his vision on the context and keys in risk management, so critical in business management currently."

In parallel, Xavier Comerma joins the bank's management committee in replacement of Rovira as the new director of Risk Management "for his ability to combine the technical vision of the risk function with business orientation." According to Guardiola, these organizational changes will allow facing "the challenge of risk management and anticipation generated by Covid-19 and will improve coordination between the bank's risk and commercial areas."