Experience Gabriel Escarrer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Meliá Hotels International “The family legacy Gabriel Escarrer Jaume (Mallorca, Spain, 1971) graduatedin Finance and Business Management from the Wharton is a competitive School and worked for three years at the investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in New York. From there, he participated in the stock market flotation of Meliá Hotels advantage” International, founded by his father, Gabriel Escarrer Juliá,and then joined the company shortly afterwards. Since 2019, he has also chaired the Exceltur tourism lobby group. What has been your most difficult experience since you took over as sole CEOof Meliá in 2009? Without a doubt, managing during the pandemic: I had to maintain the enthusiasm and faith of our more than 40,000emloees worldwide while simultaneously supporting and assisting with the transfer of hotels 30 oñodnoL oirogerG :egamI