Lorenzo Zambrano

Lorenzo H. Zambrano Treviño ( b. 1945 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican entrepreneur. He is Chairman and CEO of CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world.

Zambrano was born in Monterrey in a family of the upper class. He made in 1966 a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ( ITESM ) and earned an MBA in 1968 from Stanford Business School.

In 1968 he began his career at cement company CEMEX, which his grandfather had founded in 1906. In 1985, he became its CEO. He is also a member of the board of IBM and international boards of Citigroup and Allianz and the Boards of Directors of Fomento Económico Mexicano, the construction company ICA, Alfa, Grupo Financiero Banamex, the glass manufacturer Vitro and the Televisa Group and the ITESM and the Museum of contemporary Art in Monterrey. Until 2005 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG. By January 2006 he was part of the Council of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Zambrano and his family were listed in the list of richest people in the world by Forbes Magazine for the year 2006 with an estimated fortune of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars to course 428.