Vice-secretary Parliament of Catalonia
Xavier Vendrell took which position after Oct 2008?
Xavier Vendrell Xavier Vendrell i Segura , ( San Juan Despí ( Barcelona ) , 15 October 1966 ) is a Catalan entrepreneur . He presides over the Colombo-Catalan Chamber of Commerce and he is the chief executive officer of two entrepreneur groups Barcelona Export Group and Biomek Group . Social demograt politician , after more than twenty years dedicated to politics on the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party , nowadays he is focused on the entrepreneur world and he does not hold any political responsibility . Biography . Education . Technical in National and International Transport , he studied Electronic Industrial Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya between 1984 and 1988 and Political Science at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia . In 2005 he did the postgraduate about Directorate-General for Enterprise in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya . Professional experience . His career path begins as a salesperson in the family food distributor DISBAIX at the end of the 80s , after this he takes the management of the cooperative DIPEC which belongs to the same sector . During the early 90s he is hired by the supermarket chain Bonpreu-Esclat in order to implement the catalog sales , a pioneer bet in the distribution sector . When he starts working on the political sector , he combines the political party responsibilities with the management of the transport enterprise Amunt i Avall , until the mid-90s . After 15 years being exclusively dedicated to the political sector ( 1996–2010 ) , at the end of 2010 he assumes the management of Biomek group , a group of health enterprises dedicated to the corporal harm evaluation through the biomechanics . This group works providing solutions in this field , with an enterprise dedicated to the development and the scientific research ( Biomechanics Analysis ) , another dedicated to the rent and sale of laboratories ( Easy Beomechanics ) and a third one which is dedicated to the execution of biomechanical tests ( Injury Certification ) . In 2011 he founded Barcelona Export Group , consultancy dedicated to the internationalization of European enterprises . This enterprise is especially focused on Latin America , but it also develops other projects in China , Pakistan and the Persian Gulf . The company is headquartered in Barcelona and in Latin America the company has its headquarters in Bogotá ( Colombia ) . Political experience . He has been member of the Unió Excursionista de Catalunya or Unión Excursionista de Cataluña ( UEC ) since 1976 and he has been part of the committee between 1984 and 1986 . In 1988 he was president of the Asamblea de Estudiantes Independentistas de Universidad ( AEIU ) . After some years of affiliation to the independent left extra-parliamentary , in 1991 he joins the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party , and the same year he is elected regional President , until the 1994 . In 1996 he is named Organization and Finance National Secretary of the party . He reaches his highest point being General Vice-secretary from 2006 to 2008 . At institutional level , in 1995 he is elected city councilor of the Sant Joan Despí city hall , taking charge of the environment department and being representative of the Baix Llobregat regional board , where he is responsible of the Consumption and Tourism area . In his second local mandate he is named Control and Monitoring Deputy Mayor , as well as Representative in the Metropolitan Community of Municipalities , at the beginning of 1999 . At the end of the same year , he is elected Member of the Parliament of Catalonia , position that he holds until the 2010 , including the interval on the Catalan Government . During this period in the Government he develops the general secretary functions of the Catalan Head of Government and the Government and Public Administration Counsellor of the Catalan Government . In 2007 he publishes a book entitled Disculpin les molèsties , in which he explains the best kept secrets of his party , Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and of the Catalan left government that ruled Catalonia from 2003 to the end of the 2010 , through a personal point of view . He presents the book in Barcelona 8 July in 2007 in front of a thousand people , approximately .