Carlos Salazar Lomelín (born April 1951) is a Mexican businessman who is chief executive officer of

Coca-Cola FEMSA Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V., known as Coca-Cola FEMSA or KOF, is a Mexican multinational beverage company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is a subsidiary of FEMSA which owns 47.8% of its stock, with 27.8% held by wholly owned subsid ...

since 1 January 2000.

Early life

Salazar graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics (1973) and an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

(1989) from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...

(ITESM). He also undertook executive courses in

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and Economic Development at the ''Instituto di Studi per lo Sviluppo Economico'' in

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, and at IPADE, in

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Career

During his studies in

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he interned at

Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, known in shorthand as Cariplo SpA, was an Italian bank founded in 1823. On 2 January 1998, it merged with Banco Ambrosiano Veneto to form Banca Intesa. Cariplo SpA became a short-lived sub-holding comp ...

. Salazar joined Femsa in 1973 and rose through the ranks as director-general of Grafo Regia, commercial planning officer of Femsa and chief executive officer of Femsa Cerveza. On 1 January 2000 he was appointed chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Femsa. Aside from his business activities, Salazar has lectured in Economics at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, where he was president of the corporate advisory board of

EGADE Business School The — generally translated as Graduate School of Management and Business Administration, but officially branded as EGADE Business School since 2010 — is the graduate business school of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM): one of Lat ...

(2009-2010). In June 2011 it was rumored that he would succeed Rafael Rangel Sostmann as rector of that university.

References

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