PRESIDENT

Carlos García is a graduate of the UIA with a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Master’s Degree in Administration at ITAM, he has worked in 5 countries for transnational companies in different industries holding executive positions, he currently works as Director of Business Development at KI Industries, manufacturer of original equipment for the appliance and automotive industry.

He has held positions on the board of directors of Canacintra, Coparmex and the Mesón del Prado Colonos Association. For many years he has been part of Rotary International with various positions including President of the Jurica Rotary Club.

He enjoys traveling and doing outdoor sports such as road and mountain biking, tennis, paddle tennis, motorcycles or diving, as well as closely following the adventures of his two sons around the world.

Graduate in Administration with a specialty in Human Resources. She has a Master’s Degree in Corporate Social Responsibility.

She has held different managerial and executive positions in her more than 20 years of professional career, in important companies in the national industry, such as Grupo Punto Alto, Interceramic, 7-Eleven México and Corporativo Papelero Mexicano, among others.

As part of her interest in sharing and learning from young people, she has worked as a teacher at the Tec Milenio University, at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua and the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, as well as a speaker in university social responsibility diplomas and corporate social responsibility.

She actively participates in the Councils of some civil organizations such as the Centro de Liderazgo y Desarrollo Humano A.C., Educación Integral Index A.C., Promesa Educativa A.C., and Unión Social de Empresarios Mexicanos. She was the Executive Director of the FECHAC.

Alberto Cárdenas Aldrete is founder of Salexperts, a business consultancy focused on the development of business strategies, from where he has helped companies grow.

In addition to being part of the board of several companies, he is a writer, author of the books Grow or die and Grow: decisions that make history, he is also a lecturer on sales strategies, a columnist for more than 15 media outlets in the country and a philanthropist where He has helped multiple CSOs grow pro bono through his firm, he has participated in some boards such as COMUNIDAR and is the founding president of Ser Filántropo.

Trained in Business Administration with a focus on Public Relations (Montreal, Canada), Master in Emotional Intelligence (Chiapas, Mexico).

She has 16 years of experience in Chiapas, Mexico, in rural development projects, women’s access to humanized health services, management of educational programs, emotional intelligence and work in civil society organization. She is multilingual: Spanish, English and French.

She is a founding member of Crisalium Educación Naturaleza y Transitión A.C., a collective that promotes permaculture as a tool for transition based on its 3 ethical principles: caring for people, caring for the earth and sharing with equity.

She is currently the operational director of the Friends of San Cristóbal Community Foundation located in Chiapas and works to build better life opportunities for girls, boys, young people, women, adults in situations of extreme vulnerability in San Cristóbal de Las Casas and in Los Altos From chiapas.

With a deep passion for justice and equality, Erik Friend has worked in the social sector for many years. A graduate of Union Institute University in San Diego, he worked in the development of automotive repair cooperatives, while at the same time working in coordination with the Social Immersion Program of the Lutheran Church in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The experience of living between two worlds brought him great respect and appreciation for cultural and social diversity.

As a facilitator and training leader for Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer Program, he has traveled to Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica and China to train and support local community leaders. He is also part of the team that is adapting the intensive course “Changing the Game” and “Drawdown” for Latin America, and the initiative to create an adaptation of the Alliance programs for companies that are seeking to be more sustainable, fair and full.

He is currently the President of the Community Foundation, where he works for community development. Also, he works with people with disabilities who have a wheelchair repair workshop, ALEM and Enchúlame la Silla.

David Pérez Rulfo Torres has a degree in Business Administration, with a specialty in University Management and Leadership from the OUI, where he obtained the “Gilles Boulet” award.

He was President of Comunalia, CIDES and the Committee of the Law for the Promotion of Civil Society Organizations of the State of Jalisco and member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Federal Law for the Promotion of Activities Carried out by Civil Society Organizations. of the Social Council of the IDB and the Council of AMEXCID.

He is director of Corporativa de Fundaciones A.C., and member of the board of directors of CEMEFI, and of the Business Council of UNIVA.

Alejandra Rivera is a Master in Administration and Social Entrepreneurship at the ORT University. She studied the European Master in Organization of Congresses, Events and Fairs, at the University of Deusto, in Bilbao, Spain; and a bachelor’s degree in Administration from the Universidad Nuevo Mundo, in the State of Mexico.

She studied the diplomas in: Social Intervention Models, ORT University; Social Direction and Management for Civil Society Organizations of Fundación Merced, A.C.; Thanatology and its Application in Clinical Practice by Tech Palewi, A.C.; Thanatological Clinical Intervention of Tech Palewi, A.C.; and Social volunteering, by the Iberoamericana University.

Her professional development began in 1996, focusing primarily on social projects and the organization and management of events; hers two great professional passions of hers. Which, united under the same objective, led to the creation of the CODAF Centers Program (FONABEC Community Learning Centers), from which more than 1,600 people have been given the opportunity to study at the upper secondary level and a human training program. young people from 26 communities in vulnerable conditions, where study opportunities are scarce or non-existent.

She has been a member of business and civil society councils, as well as a consultant in various organizations on topics such as the creation of governing bodies, institutional diagnosis and strategic planning.

Some of the institutions or companies with which she has collaborated are: Fundación Pro Niños de la Calle, Doctor Payaso, Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve (Costa Rica), DILOE and FONABEC. She is currently director of Fundación Punta de Mita, A.C., in Nayarit, and is part of the Comunalia Council.

Luis Ruiz Saucedo is a Sociologist, with 25 years in the social sector, he is currently General Director of the Oaxaca Community Foundation and President of the Board of Directors of the Oaxacan Fund for Nature Conservation.

In his career he has participated as founding President of the Center for Community Development of Oaxaca; Founding Director of Radio Calenda la Voz del Valle, Oaxaca. He was also a member of the Council of the Mexican Youth Institute, and part of the Technical Advisory Council of Oaxaca of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT).

Passionate about collaborating in community development processes, enjoying coexistence, music and village festivals.