Chairman of our Technical Committee. He has more than 45 years of experience in the real estate sector. Founding partner of e-Group, one of the largest and most important real estate groups in Mexico. During his administration, he led all of e-Group’s projects, currently with vertically-integrated operating platforms throughout the country.
As a Chairman for e-Group he represents more than 250 companies, in this position he has made big financial investments, such as Las Americas Cancun with an investment of seventy million dollars, nowadays he has provided around 5000 employment opportunities within the society .
He has also created alliances with Cinepolis, Chedraui, Liverpool, Sears, Sanborns, Play City, among others. He has participated in projects for different segments like housing, industrial, hotelier, health, retail and corporative. He has developed more than 170 real estate projects in key locations of Mexico and has been a key-element in capital raising processes to fund projects in Mexico and abroad.
Throughout his career he has participated in several social projects. For almost 40 years, he has built a solid network of clients with whom he maintains fine, long-lasting relationships that translate in being the best real estate solution for them, becoming a key-element of FUNO’s core business.
Member from 2011
Year of birth: 1963
Chief Executive Officer and member of the Technical Committee.
Co-founder of e-Group, one of the most important real estate groups in Mexico. He has more than 45 years of experience in real estate operation in every segment, including raising capital to develop and acquire large-scale projects and properties.
He is currently a member of the board on each of the companies that integrate e-Group, of the directing board of The TechnoWise Group and an independent member of the board at Grupo Financiero Actinver.
He has also been a member of the Metropolitan Council of BBVA.
Member from 2011
Year of birth: 1964
Co-founder of e-Group with more than 45 years of experience in the real estate sector. During his administration on e-Group, he focused his efforts in the administration of industrial real estate, in the acquisition of properties in all stages of the cycle, and has led several large-scale projects in the industrial, retail, office and residential segments. He also has wide experience in the retail industry, playing a key-role in attending specific client needs in the commercial and industrial segments.
On another note, as president of the charity society Alianza Monte Sinaí, he has achieved a solid and reliable structure that distinguishes the jewish community, enforcing a free, innovative and active community.
Furthermore, Max and his associates have achieved to create the biggest real estate developing, operating and administrative in Mexico and latin america in less than a decade. Fibra Uno started listing in the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) in march 2011.
Member from 2011
Year of birth: 1959
Remarkable businessman and a distinguished philanthropist with more than 50 years of experience in the retail, real estate, financial and energy sectors.Founder of Grupo Melody, a retail company dedicated to women apparel in the 60’s, which was sold to a private equity fund in 2007. He entered the real estate sector in the 70’s, participating in several projects in the industrial, retail, office and residential segments. During his career, he has promoted and created several businesses in different sectors and has been a stakeholder in companies such as SARE, CorpoFin, The TechnoWise Group, Insignia Life, Presencia en Medios, among others. Furthermore, he has been a key promoter of several projects that benefit social development in Mexico.
Member from 2011
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
With more than 40 years of experience in the real estate sector, he has built an extensive network of clients that have been a significant part of both e-Group and FUNO’s growth and success, where he has been from their foundation. He has been responsible for the development and operation of diverse real estate projects, focusing on the retail segment; Mr. Sacal has played an important role in the development, marketing, operation and promotion of several projects, especially in the retail segment.
Member from 2011
Remarkable businessman with more than 40 years of experience in the polyethylene processing and plastic packaging industries, he has been a partner of e-Group for more than 20 years.
Member from 2011
Independent Member of our Technical Committee and President of our Audit Committee.
Bachelor in Public Accounting by the UNAM; Master in Business Management by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has more than 40 years of experience in corporate governance participating as a member, independent and direct, in different management boards; more than 35 years in social issues through his participation with different institutions and more than 10 years in environmental issues.
He currently participates as an independent counselor and chairman of the audit board of Grupo Collado, S.A.B. de C.V., president of the audit committee of Grupo Educacion-Family Office, advicing council Grupo Assa, S.A. de C.V., administrative council DiSi Operaciones Empresariales, S.A.P.I. de C.V. ENR Sofom, independent council in Credipyme S.A. de C.V. Member of the technical committee of the trust Thour Urbana, patronage member, current president of the postulations committee and corporate governance in Centro MEdico ABC, patronage member at CDIJUM, technical committee member of Provivah Trust - Fundacion Vivienda, A.C. and patronage member of Antoguo Colegio de San Idelfonso - UNAM.
He has 47 years of experience in financial risk issues, and a wide experience in corporate and investment banking. He was responsible for corporate banking in Bank of America Mexico, and CEO of HSBC Investment Bank. He was president, council member and representative for Mexico of Rothschild; chairman and council vice president of Republic National Bank.
He was president of AIFI’s financial institutions association and participated as directive and funding associate of Boutique Banca de Inversion de G & A, S.C.
Member from 2011
Year of birth: 1948
Independent Member of our Technical Committee and the President of our Nomination and Compensation Committee. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the ITESM and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, with academic experience at Rice University in Houston and Colegio de México.President and General Director of Soluciones Estratégicas, a business specializing in international commercial consulting with extensive experience in the public sector and in international trade. Chairman of the Board of Director of IQOM Business Intelligence, the only service in Mexico and Latinamerica for day-to-day business analysis. He previously served as Secretary of Trade and Industry of Mexico and as Mexico’s Chief Negotiator of NAFTA. Mr. Blanco has advised and served on multiple boards of directors of different companies, which include CYDSA, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Bancomext and Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America.
Member from 2011
Independent Member of our Technical Committee. He has more than 30 years of experience in social issues, 22 years in financial risk issuesand 10 years in corporate governance. Furthermore, he has an extensive and renowned teaching and academic career. He is director of ITAM's Economic Analysis and Research Center and also serves as a full-time professor in the same institution. He has served as a counselor at many government agencies and has earned many accolades. Bachelor in Economics by the ITAM; Master and Doctor in Economics by the University of Chicago.
Member from 2011
Year of birth: 1950
Independent Member of our Technical Committee and President of the Practices Committee. He has more than 45 years of experience in corporate law, 35 years in financial and stock risks; 30 years in social issues and 25 in environmental issues, he has counseled many Mexican and foreign companies in strategic partnerships and mergers & acquisitions.
Bachelor in Law by the Iberoamerican University with postgraduate studies in Law by the University of Houston and Harvard University.
Currently, he is professor of Fusions & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance for Panamerican University. Furthermore, he has also been an outstanding academic and lecturer in the Escuela Libre de Derecho and the Iberoamerican University, and has served as an associate for Jones Day in Mexico.
He has actively participated in the foundation of many banks and financial groups in Mexico and was a legal counselor of the banking group that assisted the Mexican Administration in the realignment of the public debt from 1982 to 1992.
Expert in corporate governance issues for 21 years, member of the first commission of the Corporate Coordinating Counsel that made the first Corporate Governance Code in the year 2000.
He participates in the administrative boards of: Aleatica, Circuito Exterior Mexiquense, HSBC Insurance, Infraex; priorly he participated in Coppel, BanCoppel, Farmacias del Ahorro, Pacific Airport Group, Sears Roebuck of Mexico and IXE Financial Group.
Member of the Regulatory and Analysis Board of the Corporate Coordinating Counsel and member of the Honor & Justice Commission of the Mexican State Bar Association.
Member from 2016
Year of birth: 1962