Corporate Governance

He previously served on several boards including those of Telmex and Monterrey Industries.

Antonio holds a bachelor’s degree in public accounting from the EBC School of Mexico and an executive business director certification from the IPADE Business School.

As a disciplined business leader with deep experience steering growth companies to sustainability and profitability, del Valle has guided Orbia’s transformation from a local commodities company into a global leader in basic and advanced materials and sustainable solutions for addressing food and water security, connectivity, and decarbonization and the energy transition. Del Valle has additionally led the real estate investment division for Grupo Empresarial Kaluz, his family business, and facilitated Kaluz’s participation in Orbia’s governance since 2003.

Previously, del Valle founded Grupo Módulo Progresivo, an affordable housing development company, and worked for Telmex from 1996 to 1999 on the first fiber optic sea cable project connecting the United States, Mexico and South America.

Del Valle holds a board chairman position for Elementia Materiales SAB; is the chairman of Agua Capital, Mexico City’s first water fund, and is a co-chairman of the Latin America Conservation Council at The Nature Conservancy. He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Anáhuac University and a master of business administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.

Since 2018, he has served as the president of the Mexican Business Council, a business organization that groups together the 60 most important equity firms in Mexico and his experience led him to take part of the Patronages of the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Probosque de Chapultepec Trust, Colmex Foundation Patronage, and the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.

Antonio additionally is a member of the BX+, Elementia, GEK Controlling, Sofimex Surety, and Byline Bank boards of directors.

Antonio holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master of business administration (MBA) from Anáhuac University. He also has received a postgraduate degree in senior management from the IPADE Business School and a specialization in literature from IBERO University.

Board of Directors' Experience

Business Leadership/Operations, Regulatory/Public Policy/Government, Finance, Risk Management

He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elementa since 2000 and the General Manager of Controladora GEK. In 2010, he started in the educational sector founding SAE Institute Latin America, a university specialized in creative media.

Francisco is also a member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero Ve por Más, Cuprum, Grupo Interprotección, the Advisory Board of Banamex, the Communication Council and the Business Council of Alianza del Pacifico. He supports various causes, such as sponsorship of high-performance athletes, campaigns and initiatives focused on the care and preservation of the environment, and housing programs.

Francisco holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from and a master’s degree in Economics and Business from Anahuac University, and an AD-2 in Senior Management from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE).

Board of Directors' Experience

Business Leadership/Operations, Finance, Innovation/Technology

She is responsible for the del Valle family office, an active investment fund, and has been closely involved in several family-owned businesses in the past decade. Previously, she worked in finance and marketing roles for BITAL Bank and Santander Bank.

María Guadalupe additionally is a member of the Kaluz, Kaluz Foundation, and SAE Institute Latin America boards of directors.

María Guadalupe holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Anáhuac University and a postgraduate degree in senior management from the IPADE Business School.

Board of Directors' Experience

Regulatory/Public Policy/Government, Finance, Environmental and Social Affairs

Her experience includes leading Spanish Latam at Twitter, J. Walter Thompson Company in Mexico and the online business for Microsoft in Mexico. Previously she was a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. A very active ecosystem builder, she has advised startups for many years, having been an entrepreneur herself. She founded Clarus, a leading digital marketing firm that was later acquired by WPP, and she has been involved with the tech startup ecosystem in Latam as an investor and through Endeavor and several VC funds.

She currently serves as Independent Board Member of Be-liv, a subsidiary of CBC, and previously in the Board of  Sportsworld.

Mariate has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB) and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia Business School.

Board of Directors' Experience

Business Leadership/Operations, Environmental and Social Affairs, Innovation/Technology

Mihir is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research's public economics and corporate finance programs, having served as the co-director of the NBER's India program. In his research, Mihir has modeled the appropriate designs for tax policy in a globalized setting and examined the links between corporate governance and taxation as well as the internal capital markets of multinational firms. His work has been cited in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times and several other publications. In the fall of 2014, Mihir began teaching taxation at Harvard Law School, and from 2010 to 2014, he served as the Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, where he was part of the senior management team and focused on integration within the university system. From 2008 to 2011, Mihir led Harvard Business School's doctoral programs, including the Doctor of Business Administration program, as well as joint programs with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In that role, he led the restructuring of various programs and initiated a terminal master's program. His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston from 1989-1991, McKinsey & Company in 1992 and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations.

Mihir is also on the advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum and the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University.

Mihir received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in history and economics from Brown University.

Board of Directors' Experience

Regulatory/Public Policy/Government, Finance, Risk Management

Jack is managing partner at The Blu Fund, an investment fund mainly focused on Latin America markets that he founded in 2016. From 1996 to 2015, Jack was the CEO of Sanford Management, a company dedicated to managing a multi-sector portfolio of companies based mostly in Latin America and through which he successfully launched various greenfield enterprises and led over a dozen multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions, some worth over a half billion USD. From 1985 to 1996, Jack served as CEO of Filmtex, a plastics manufacturing company at which he had previously served as a financial vice president and later executive vice president. Jack sits on the advisory boards of Amanco and Wavin. He has served on the consulting committee of Colombia’s Central Bank, Bavaria (today SAB Miller), the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Commerce and the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Foundation.

Jack holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from Andes University in Bogota, Colombia, and an MBA from Babson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and took the International Negotiation course from Oxford University, and How to Be a More Effective Board Member course from Harvard University.

Board of Directors' Experience

Business Leadership/Operations, Finance, Risk Management

Leveraging more than 30 years of combined C-suite and Big 4 leadership experience, Mark drives business growth and organizational change, creating shareholder value. He currently is a board director for ACCO Brands and serves on the company’s executive committee, audit committee and the finance and planning committee. In this position, Mark interfaces with the ACCO board and senior leadership on strategy, capital allocation, corporate structuring, operations and shareholder matters and brings extensive global business experience with his wide-ranging management, advisory and financial background. From 2016 through 2020, Mark was the Chief Financial Officer for Xylem, where he helped architect the transformation of the company into a leading global water technology solutions provider, placing sustainability at the center of the company’s strategy.

For over a decade, Mark led MeadWestvaco's (MWV) global finance, strategy and corporate development, IT and shared services teams. He significantly improved the company’s competitive positioning and financial performance, driving total shareholder returns by 200%+ in his latter five years. Additionally, Mark turned around growth and profit performance at MWV, reshaping the company’s portfolio via M&A, restructuring, capital market transactions and product changes, which culminated in the successful merger with RockTenn in 2015 to form WestRock Company. Prior to WestRock, Mark progressed through senior financial and operational roles with Eastman Kodak Company, becoming its General Manager, Worldwide Operations, for the Digital & Film Imaging Systems group, a $9.2B business unit. Mark was a critical member of the team responsible for driving the financial and operational turnaround of Kodak’s Digital & Applied Imaging business, leading the group to its first profitable year and growing its global share of the digital still camera market. Mark joined Kodak following his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served as Managing Partner, Upstate New York Technology Group, and Partner, Audit & Business Advisory Services.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Lehigh University, and he was a CPA licensed in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for more than 15 years.

Board of Directors' Experience

Business Leadership/Operations, Finance, Risk Management