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Juan Pablo Mata, Guatemalan, is the Chief Executive Officer CEO of Grupo Mariposa, and is responsible for leading the sustainable growth of the Group.
Juan Pablo holds a Master of Business Administration at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a degree in Bachelor of Arts and Science, Major in Finance and Economics at Babson College, and an executive education degree at Harvard Business School.
Juan Pablo started his career as a global management trainee at Anheuser-Busch InBev in Brazil (2010-2013), He later worked as a Consultant in Mexico at The Boston Consulting Group (2014), and joined Grupo Mariposa in 2015 as a chief Human Resources Officer, in this position he led the transformation of the group into a food & beverage conglomerate. He was also appointed as Chief Strategy Officer (2016-2018) where he led the strategy and M&A for the group contributing to the consolidation of the groups and growth. He later led Guatemala and Jamaica operations, Mariposa´s largest operations (2018-2020) generating more than $100M in additional top line growth. Since 2020, Juan Pablo was appointed Chief Executive officer of Grupo Mariposa where he leads APEX the corporate center of the group in charge of catalyzing growth and transformation for CBC, BIA, BELIV and Apex Capital.
Juan Pablo leads the ESG, digital transformation, disruption, Talent and culture for GM. Under his leadership the group defined its purpose of unleashing value in the Americas to catalyze inclusive growth and prosperity in the region. Grupo Mariposa aims to be part of the solutions to the challenges faced by the region and generate shared value with all stakeholders, especially the communities of the countries in which the group has operations.
Juan Pablo led the issuance of the first Sustainability Linked Bond in January 2022, which is a manifestation of the Group´s strong commitment to its ESG agenda and generating prosperity in Latin America. This bond highlighted the Group´s solid credit profile and its attractiveness to a broad base of investors from the United States, The European Union, Asia and those focused on the ESG Agenda.
Juan Pablo is a board member at the America´s Society, he is a member of the Aspen institute in the Central American Leadership initiative (CALI). He founded a social venture called Creciendo Juntos which seeks to create the conditions to eradicate multidimensional poverty in the private sector. He is a board member at Ambev Guatemala.
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