Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, MBA at INSEAD and visiting professor at the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He started his professional career in the world of engineering at Bechtel and later at GETINSA and DETEA, and in the telecommunications sector he was Director of Project Management at Airtel (later Vodafone) and Director of Institutional Relations at AUNA.

He has been National Secretary of New Technologies of the Partido Popular and was elected National Deputy for Zamora in November 2011. In the Public Administration he has been Undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Works, President of Correos y Telégrafos and Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society. He is currently General Director of DigitalES, the Spanish Association for Digitalisation.