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.

Since joining his family business, Kaluz, in 2003, Juan Pablo has been responsible for real estate investments and for Kaluz’s participation in Orbia. Under his watch, Kaluz has constructed more than 1.5 million square feet of mixed-use developments in Mexico, and Orbia has been transformed from a local chemical company to a world leader in polymers, fluor, precision agriculture, data communications, and building and infrastructure solutions that are advancing life around the world. Prior to his role at Kaluz, Juan Pablo founded Grupo Módulo Progresivo an affordable housing development company in 2001, and worked for Telmex from 1996 to 1999, where among other responsibilities he led the implementation of the first fiber optic sea cable project connecting the United States, Mexico, and South America.

Juan Pablo serves on the Johnson Controls Inc. and Elementia boards of directors. In the nonprofit realm, he is the chairman of Mexico City’s first water fund, co-chairman of the Latin American Conservation Council at The Nature Conservancy and a member of the International Advisory Board at Harvard Business School and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Juan Pablo holds 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.

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).

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.

Divo is currently Chief Executive Officer of Grupo CIN, Pro-Invest; currently serves on the Board of Directors of: Orbia Advanced Corporation, Elementia, Grupo Financiero BX+, Net Capital and Flexstation; he is  also Chairman of the Board of Grupo Aradam (Franchise Operator “Le Pain Quotidiene, México”), Quonia, Círculo de Crédito and Círculo Laboral.

Divo has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad Iberoamericana in México City as well as a postgraduate Certificate for International Business Studies from Harvard University.

Currently, he is a partner and board member of BTG Pactual, a financial service company, and is also a member of the Group of Thirty (G30), the board of the Center for Financial Stability (CFS), the CDPQ Global Economic and Financial Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as well as chairman of the Per Jacobsson Foundation. He previously served as chairman of the BTG Pactual Latin America ex-Brazil Board of Directors from 2016 to 2018, and as chairman of the Banorte-Ixe Financial Group Board of Directors from 2011 to 2014. In 2009, he founded GO & Associates, an economics consulting firm. He was the governor of the Bank of Mexico from 1998 to 2009, and prior to that, he served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit for Mexico from 1994 to 1997.

Guillermo is a member of the South East Airports and Vitro Boards of Directors.

Guillermo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master of science and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Eduardo serves as chairman of the Lala Group and Nuplen Industrial Group boards of directors, as chairman of Aeromexico’s Executive Committee. He is a member of the Banamex Financial Group and Televisa Group boards of directors. He is chairman of SER, inspired by the  Knowledge is Power Program that focuses on providing quality education to economically disadvantaged children. In addition, he chairs the Lala Foundation, and organization that contributes to the nutrition, education, and health of people living in poverty, especially children.

Eduardo also serves on the boards of several non profit organizations including the Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gómez, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexicanos Primero, A.C. and the Latin American Conservation Council (LACC) of the Nature Conservancy.

Eduardo has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM).

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.

Anil is a Senior Advisor to the Chairman, World Economic Forum.  He has served as managing director and member of the managing board and head of the Centre for Global Industries at the World Economic Forum. From 2009 to 2016, Anil held the role of global president of Smart+Connected Communities at Cisco, where he was a key leader of Cisco’s Internet of Things business activities. Also, he previously served as deputy chief globalization officer leading Cisco’s globalization headquarters in Bangalore, India and is the former chairman of Cisco India’s Advisory Board. From 2002 to 2009, Anil fulfilled several leadership functions at IBM HQ, ranging from a role as chief marketing and strategy officer for IBM's $34B global hardware business to managing IBM's transition from a hardware brand to a business technology brand to serving on IBM's strategy team, which supported the CEO to set overall business and investment strategy. Before joining IBM, Anil was a  tenured professor on the graduate faculty at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia and a senior advisor and consultant on market innovation and transformation to consumer and industrial companies. He was a Sony Business Fellow with Sony Corporation from 1993 to 1996.

Anil also serves on the board of directors for the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale University School of Management. He is an active investor and advisor to digital startups and has served on the board of Coca-Cola's technology incubator, Fizzion, and Citibank India’s board of advisors.

Anil holds a Ph.D. in marketing strategy and statistics, and his doctoral work was done at Texas A&M University and at the Strategic Planning Institute, a research think-tank, which originated out of Harvard Business School. Anil is a recipient of the American Marketing Association’s Alpha Kappa Psi award for academic research with the biggest impact on the practice of marketing. He was also awarded the Academy of Marketing Science’s Distinguished Practitioner Award.

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.

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 serves as Board Director and Chairman, Finance and Planning Committee, for ACCO Brands, and as Executive and Board Advisor for WestRock. Mark interfaces with the board and senior leadership on strategy, capital allocation, corporate structuring, operational and shareholder matters.

For over a decade, Mark led MeadWestvaco's (MWV) global finance, strategy & corporate development, IT and shared services teams. He significantly improved the company’s competitive positioning and financial performance, driving total shareholder return by 200%+ over the past five years. Mark turned around growth and profit performance at MWV, reshaping the portfolio via M&A, restructuring, capital markets transactions and product portfolio changes, culminating in the successful merger with Rock Tenn in 2015, forming the $16B company, WestRock.

Prior to WestRock, Mark progressed through senior financial and operating roles with Eastman Kodak Company, becoming its General Manager Worldwide Operations for the Digital & Film Imaging Systems Group, a newly created $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 BS in Accounting from Lehigh University, and he was a CPA licensed in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for more than 15 years.