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
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.
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
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
Year of birth: 1948
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
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.
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
Year of birth: 1962
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).