Colonial Director since 2016.
Dates of appointment and re-election as director of Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI S.A.: June 28, 2016, June 30, 2020 and June, 13, 2024.
An industrial engineer, he has followed senior management programmes at Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa.
For more than 30 years he has held positions of substantial responsibility, complexity and skills in the management of companies in various sectors. He was CEO (1997-2013) and Chairman of the Board of Directors (2005-2013) of Grupo Modelo. Between his appointment as CEO and 2013, this Group became the leading beer company in Mexico, the seventh group in the world and the largest beer export company in the world.
Furthermore, he has been a Director in international and national companies, including Anheuser Busch (USA), Emerson Electric Co. (USA), Televisa Group (Mexico), Crown Imports, Ltd. (USA), Inbursa (Mexico) and Mexico Stock Exchange. Likewise, he was also a member of the international advisory board of Banco Santander, S.A. (Spain), Director of Grupo Financiero Santander México S.A.B de C.V. and, until October 2019, Director of Banco Santander, S.A. (Spain).
He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors and general manager of Grupo Finaccess S.A.P.I. de C.V. (which he founded), which operates in Mexico, the United States, Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand. This is in addition to his directorship of Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited.