Jorge Vergara

Jorge Carlos Vergara Madrigal ( born March 3, 1955 in Guadalajara, Jalisco ) is a Mexican entrepreneur.

Jorge Vergara founded in 1991 which specializes in the sale of food supplement products company Omnilife SA de CV. Based in Guadalajara company now has offices in 18 countries. Jorge Vergara has the football clubs Chivas Guadalajara in Mexico and CD Chivas USA in Major League Soccer. From March 2003 to April 2011, he had also the Costa Rican football club Deportivo Saprissa.

Biography

Jorge Vergara initially worked as a mechanic, then as a text translator and then as a car salesman until he became deputy director of a small company called Casolar. As this 1981 in the Mexican financial crisis bankrupt, he tried his hand as a taco vendor. Then he opened an Italian restaurant.

Because these transactions but not all yielded the expected return, he finally went to the USA where he hired as a salesman for the company Herbalife; a company that specializes in nutritional supplements. In 1991, he created his own company called Omnitrition de México, which bears the shorter name Omnilife today.

Under the Omnilife group now a group of various companies has formed, which is dedicated to more than just the sale of dietary supplements. The activities of the combined company among this group range from financial consulting to biotechnology research and from the aircraft industry to the music and film business.

The entrance to the football business

In November 2002, Vergara earned the Club Deportivo Guadalajara, which was at that time in a financially troubled situation and was therefore have relatively cheap. Four months later he acquired in a similar manner Deportivo Saprissa and used 2005, the addition of new teams in the Major League Soccer ( MLS) establishing the Chivas USA as a U.S. offshoot of the native to Mexico Club Deportivo " Chivas " of Guadalajara. In June 2007, Vergara also sought to gain a foothold in Spain and strove earnestly for the acquisition of the Málaga CF. After this plan had failed, he traveled to the Chinese city of Hefei, where he bought a club that was named Chivas Hefei and played in the second division.