Juan Marco Gutiérrez Wanless
Managing Partner
35 years of financial and diverse operating experience
- Over US$5 billion in M&A transactions and over US$3.5 billion in public, private and supplier structured financings
- In 2004 he joined Grupo DESC (which later evolved to Grupo KUO, one of Mexico’s most relevant industrial conglomerates) as Corporate Managing Director, and in 2007 he was named CEO of KUO (until 2014), during this period, the company had double-digit growth in sales and EBITDA
- Grupo KUO´s stock was among the 10 best performing shares in the BMV (2008 -2013) with appreciation in value of 525%
- Juan Marco completely turned the conglomerate from having 80 subsidiaries in 3 countries with a >6.0x debt to EBITDA ratio, into a more efficient and profitable 40 subsidiary company in 8 countries with a <2.0x debt to EBITDA ratio
- Over US$2 billion in annual sales with 18,000 employees in 5 main sectors: consumer, agricultural, petrochemical, automotive and aerospace
- In 1998, he joined Pegaso as CFO and shortly afterwards he was promoted to CEO (until the sale to Telefónica Spain in 2003). He was responsible for building and expanding the nationwide company that reached over 800,000 costumers
- He held senior positions in diverse financial companies such as Fomento de Valores, Inverlat and Inverméxico, where he became CFO and Deputy Managing Director
- Serves on several Board of Directors, including public companies such as Qualitas and Unifin
- B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Anahuac (Board Member), postgraduate studies at ITAM (distinguished Alumni)