Jose Luis Tamargo is the CPO (Chief People and Legal Officer) at Garnica, reporting to the CEO, Álvaro González.

He has over 25 years of experience in managing and leading high-performance Human Resources teams, both in consulting firms and in private organisations of international scope and operational complexity. Before joining Garnica, Jose was the Corporate Human Resources Director at Albacora (the leading European tuna fishing company with an operational fleet worldwide) and held various management positions in consulting firms such as PageGroup, Korn Ferry (formerly Hay Group), among others.

He began his career in consulting and has spent the last 20 years in international human resources roles and projects with a special emphasis on strategic transformation of the function. During this period, he also founded his own consulting firm, which he left in the hands of one of his collaborators to join PageGroup and create the HR consulting services unit within the British multinational.

In his role as CPO, Jose works to help Garnica align people development with the company’s growth strategy, promote business ethics, and create innovative ways to meet the needs of customers and markets. Additionally, he leads the Legal and Compliance areas at Garnica.

Regarding Tamargo’s team, he is responsible for overseeing a wide range of functions including talent attraction and development policies and processes, promoting inclusion and diversity, ensuring succession in critical and leadership positions within the Group, as well as the Garnica Early Talent and Garnica Academy projects, labour relations, compensation, organisation and employee experience; and transactions, legal procedures, ethical code, and compliance model within the legal function.

Jose holds a degree in Labour Relations from the University of Oviedo, a postgraduate degree in Labour Law, an MBA from Isabel I University, Corporate Finance from IE, and postgraduate training as a board member at HBS. He is certified in Coaching and NLP.

Jose is also a member of the northern advisory board of Asepeyo.