María de los Ángeles Mouriño Terrazo (born 25 May 1975) is a Spanish businesswoman. She became president of the football club

RC Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed ''Os Celestes'' (The Sky Blues), the club was fou ...

in 2023, the first woman in the position.

Biography

Mouriño was born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

and raised in Spain and Mexico. Her father

Carlos Mouriño Manuel Carlos Mouriño Atanes (born 4 March 1943) is a Spanish businessman. He was the president of the football club RC Celta de Vigo from 2006 to 2023. After starting his career in his native Vigo and in Madrid, he emigrated to Mexico City in 1 ...

is a businessman from Galicia who was the longest-serving president of

, in office from 2006 to 2023. Her older brother

Juan Camilo Mouriño Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo (1 August 1971 – 4 November 2008) was a Spanish-born Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. Personal ...

(1971–2008) was Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, dying in an aeroplane disaster while in office. She graduated with a degree in business administration from the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...

and a master's degree in business management and marketing from IESIDE Business Institute in

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. Mouriño spent most of her career working with her father's company Grupo Energético del Sureste (GES), including as its

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

in Spain, and as Celta's marketing director from 2005 to 2009. In Mexico, she was a regional advisor to

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. She returned to Galicia in 2019, and took control of GES two years later. On 28 September 2023, Carlos Mouriño resigned as president of Celta and his daughter succeeded him as the first woman president in the 100-year history of the club. The succession was approved on 13 December at a shareholders' meeting. She announced that for the following season, the club would have a women's football team. This team was launched as in May 2024 by merging with nearby third-division club UD Mos. The club won promotion to the third-tier

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in its first season. At the same time, the men's team finished seventh in the 2024–25 La Liga and returned to European football for the first time in nine years, a result that she said had a positive effect on the club's finances.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mourino, Marian 1975 births Living people Businesspeople from Madrid 21st-century Spanish businesswomen 21st-century Spanish businesspeople Spanish expatriates in Mexico University of Miami alumni Spanish football chairmen and investors RC Celta de Vigo non-playing staff