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
Mr. Goldberg is an Independent Member of our Technical Committee, Chairman of our Audit Committee and member of the Corporate Practices Committee. Founding partner and chairman of Goldberg, Alerhand y Asociados, S.C., a specialized investment banking advisory firm.
He has more than 40 years of experience in corporate governance participating as an independent and direct member of different boards of directors; more than 35 years in social issues through his involvement with different institutions and more than 10 years in environmental issues.
He is also currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of Galileo Investment Management, LLC, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Grupo Assa México, Soluciones Informáticas, S.A. de C.V., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Disi Operaciones Empresariales SAPI de C.V. SOFOM ENR, Independent member of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors of Grupo Collado, S.A. de C.V. and was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The American British Cowdray Medical Center, IAP (ABC Medical Center). He has extensive expertise in finance and corporate and investment banking. He was head of corporate banking for Bank of America Mexico, head of Wells Fargo Bank for Mexico and Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of HSBC Investment Banking. He was Chairman for of N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Mexico), Chairman of the Board of Directors of N.M. Rothschild (Colombia), Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Banco Bice, S.A. (Santiago de Chile, Chile) and Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd. (London, England). He earned a Degree as Public Chartered Accountant from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and an MBA by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Member from 2011
He holds a degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University.
From December 2012 to August 2015, he served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
From September 2011 to November 2012, he served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit.
In January 2011 he took office as Secretary of Energy, which he left in September of the same year.
He also served as Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit from September 2010 to January 2011 at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
Within the same Ministry, he held different positions as Undersecretary of Revenue, Head of the Coordination Office of the Secretary and Director General of Banking and Savings.
From January 2003 to December 2006, he was CEO of Financiera Rural. From May 2002 to January 2003, he was CEO of Banco Nacional de Crédito Rural S.N.C.
He also served as Assistant Secretary for Bank Savings Protection at the Instituto para la Protección al Ahorro Bancario (IPAB) and Head of Financial Planning at the Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (CONSAR).
