Xavier Vendrell i Segura (born 15 October 1966, in San Juan Despí, Spain) is a Spanish entrepreneur. He presides over the Colombo-Catalan Chamber of Commerce and he is the chief executive officer of two entrepreneur groups Barcelona Export Group and Biomek Group. Social demograt politician, after more than twenty years dedicated to politics on the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party, nowadays he is focused on the entrepreneur world and he does not hold any political responsibility. Biography Education Technical in National and International Transport, he studied Electronic Industrial Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya between 1984 and 1988 and Political Science at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. In 2005 he did the postgraduate about Directorate-General for Enterprise in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Professional experience His career path begins as a salesperson in the family food distributor DISBAIX at the end of the 80s, after this he takes the management of the cooperative DIPEC which belongs to the same sector. During the early 90s he is hired by the supermarket chain Bonpreu-Esclat in order to implement the catalog sales, a pioneer bet in the distribution sector. When he starts working on the political sector, he combines the political party responsibilities with the management of the transport enterprise Amunt i Avall, until the mid-90s. After 15 years being exclusively dedicated to the political sector (1996–2010), at the end of 2010 he assumes the management of Biomek group, a group of health enterprises dedicated to the corporal harm evaluation through the biomechanics. This group works providing solutions in this field, with an enterprise dedicated to the development and the scientific research (Biomechanics Analysis), another dedicated to the rent and sale of laboratories (Easy Beomechanics) and a third one which is dedicated to the execution of biomechanical tests (Injury Certification). In 2011 he founded Barcelona Export Group, consultancy dedicated to the internationalization of European enterprises. This enterprise is especially focused on Latin America, but it also develops other projects in China, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf. The company is headquartered in Barcelona and in Latin America the company has its headquarters in Bogotá (Colombia). Political experience He has been member of the "Unió Excursionista de Catalunya" or Unión Excursionista de Cataluña (UEC) since 1976 and he has been part of the committee between 1984 and 1986. In 1988 he was president of the Asamblea de Estudiantes Independentistas de Universidad (AEIU).