Tomás López Fernebrand
VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
On 1 January 1999, Tomás López Fernebrand was appointed VP and General Counsel of Amadeus. In December 2000, the Board of Directors appointed him as well Corporate Secretary, becoming therefore the Chief Legal Officer of the Amadeus Group.
In 1999 and 2005, he successfully guided the Group through the legal and regulatory proceedings required for the company’s IPO (1999), and leveraged buy-out (2005) with the private equity firms BC Partners and Cinven, and Air France, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Iberia.
In April 1996, Tomás was made Associate General Counsel, providing legal counsel to Amadeus Marketing, in both Madrid and Nice. In addition, he supervised and co-ordinated the legal and contractual support required by Amadeus National Marketing Companies (NMCs) worldwide.
Tomás joined Amadeus in 1988 as Senior Corporate Counsel. He assisted in the creation of the two main subsidiaries in the Amadeus Group: Amadeus Development (France) and Amadeus Data Processing (Germany). He also assisted in the drafting of the European Code of Conduct for CRSs.
Tomás holds a Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain and an MBA from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is a native of Gothenburg, Sweden and a Spanish national.
He is currently as well the Chairman of the newly created European Technology and Travel Services Association (ETTSA), a Belgian non-profit association based in Brussels with membership composed of Global Distribution Systems and Online Travel Agencies.
