María Asunción Aramburuzabala

María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui ( born 2 May 1963 in Mexico City) is a Mexican entrepreneur. She is a major shareholder of the Mexican business groups Grupo Modelo (maker of Corona beer ) and Grupo Televisa.

Background and education

Aramburuzabala is one of the richest women in Mexico and one of the most influential women in Latin America. The assets Aramburuzabalas and her family was estimated by Forbes magazine to 2 billion U.S. dollars in 2007. The majority of their wealth is inherited. Her grandfather Félix Aramburuzabala, an immigrant from the Basque Country to Mexico, founded the brewery Grupo Modelo leading Mexican. Her father Pablo Aramburuzabala she inherited and built the group from.

María Asunción Aramburuzabala attended the German School in Mexico City and studied at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México successful accounting and controlling. At the age of 18 she married eight years older businessman Paulo Patricio Zapata Navarro, with whom she has two children. After 15 years of marriage ended in divorce. Since 2005 she is in second marriage with Tony Garza, the current United States Ambassador to Mexico, married.

Business

After the death of her father in 1995, she was Vice President of Brewery Group. She earned with successful strategic decisions a reputation for not only genetic, but capable entrepreneur to be. With her wealth she began pursuing a diversification strategy that made ​​it the major shareholder of the most important Mexican companies.

In 1998, she sold the majority of the inherited shares in the U.S. Anheuser- Busch Companies group but still holds 10% and is a member of the Board. The President of Grupo Modelo, Carlos Fernández, is married to Aramburuzabalas sister Lucrecia. Since 2000 it is also a major shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Televisa by Emilio Azcarraga Jean - group, in which it holds about 10 % of the shares. Furthermore, it is a shareholder and member of the Boards of Grupo Financiero Banamex, the telecommunications group Telmex ( under the leadership of Carlos Slim Helú ) and the data service Kio Networks and the real estate company BCBA. She is the founder and CEO of the Investment Fund Tresalia Capital.

2006 Forbes Magazine continued as a single woman from Latin America among the 100 most powerful women in the world.