Executive Director at Ascend Consulting. PhD in Applied Economics and Master in Economics from Texas A&M University. She served as Senior Officer at the Ministry of Public Education (SEP). From December 2012 to September 2015, she held the position of Senior Officer at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). Previously, she was Executive Director of the Private Sector Studies Commission for Sustainable Development of the Business Coordinating Council (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial). She was Dean of the EGADE Business School Mexico at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she created the Centre for Sustainability and Business. She worked for CEMEX as Head of Corporate Affairs for the Americas. Federal Government official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) from 2003 to 2006, where she held the positions of Head of the Unit of Economic Relations and International Cooperation and Coordinator of Advisors to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Blanco is an Independent Member of our Technical Committee, member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee (suggested to the meeting) and member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Blanco is President and CEO of Soluciones Estratégicas, a corporate advisory firm specialized in international trade issues. He has extensive experience in the public sector and in international trade. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of IQOM Inteligencia Comercial, the only daily service on trade analysis in Mexico and Latin America. He was Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development in the Zedillo administration and was the chief negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement during the Salinas administration. He held several key positions in committees and boards of companies such as CYDSA, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Bancomext, and Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America. He has academic expertise earned at Rice University in Houston, from El Colegio de México. Mr. Blanco has a bachelor’s degree in Economics by the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Member from 2011
André El Mann Arazi is the CEO of Fibra Uno and a proprietary member of the Board of Directors.
Mr. El Mann is Co-founder of e-Group, one of the most important real estate groups in Mexico. He has over 45 years of experience in real estate operations in all segments, as well as in raising public and private capital for more than 13 billion USD for the development of real estate projects through various sectors of the industry, including large-scale co-investments, and in the acquisition of real estate and projects in the sector.
He is also Member of the Board of Directors of e-Group and independent member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero Actinver. Throughout his career, he has been characterized by his interest in philanthropy, supporting through the FUNO Foundation institutions such as the ABC Medical Center Foundation, APAC, Reinserta, the Red Cross, UNICEF, among others.
He was member of the Board of Directors of The TechnoWise Group and the metropolitan counsel of BBVA.
He is an independent member of the Technical Committee, Chairman of the Corporate Practices Committee and member of the Nominations and Compensation Committee. He has more than 45 years of experience in corporate law, 35 years in financial and stock market risks, 30 years in social issues and 25 years in environmental issues and has advised many Mexican and foreign companies in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions.
He has actively participated in the incorporation of several banks and financial groups in Mexico and was a legal advisor to the group of banks that assisted the Mexican Government in the reorganization of public debt from 1982 through 1992. Mr. Franck was a partner of the Jones Day firm in Mexico.
He has been an expert in corporate governance issues for 21 years, member of the Corporate Coordinating Council that drafted the first Corporate Governance Code in 2000.
He has been a member of the boards of directors of companies such as Coppel, BanCoppel, Farmacias del Ahorro, HSBC Casa de Bolsa y HSBC Seguros, Infraex (fibra de infraestructura), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, Aleatica, Sears Roebuck de México and Grupo Financiero IXE. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense, was a member of the Legislative and Analysis Committee of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, was member of the Honor and Justice Commission of the Mexican Bar Association and professor of Corporate Governance and Mergers and Acquisitions at the Universidad Panamericana. Additionally, he has been a prominent scholar and professor at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and the Universidad Iberoamericana. Mr. Franck has a Law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana and post-graduate studies in Law from Houston University and Harvard University.
Member from 2016
Renowned businessman with more than 30 years of experience in the retail sector, and more than 20 years in the real estate sector. He joined e-Group in 2007 and has been deeply involved in acquiring and developing real estate projects in Mexico. Since then, he has performed a key role in e-Group’s growth and success, being an essential part of FUNO’s marketing process and initial public offering in March, 2011.Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Melody, a company dedicated to women apparel retail founded by his father in the 60’s, and that was sold to a private equity fund in 2007.
Member from 2011
