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Juan José Gutiérrez Mayorga is a member of the board of Corporación Multi Inversiones

Corporación Multi Inversiones

Corporación Multi Inversiones is a multinational agro-industrial corporation based in Guatemala. The firm was originally founded as a family business by Juan Bautista Gutierrez in the 1920s, and according to an article in El Diario de Hoy, one of the largest circulating newspapers in El Salvador,...

(CMI), a large agro-industrial conglomerate which, according to an article in El Diario de Hoy
El Diario de Hoy
El Diario de Hoy is a national newspaper published in San Salvador, El Salvador, one of the two dailies of highest circulation in the Central American country...

, is one of the largest circulating newspapers in El Salvador, and one of the most powerful corporations in Central America

Central America

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. Founded in 1920, CMI now has more than 30,000 employees, operating in 14 countries with six divisions: poultry and pork; Pollo Campero

Pollo Campero

Campero International, S.A., operating as Pollo Campero, is the largest fast food chain in the continent of Americas and one of the world's largest fast food chains in the fried chicken market...

fast food restaurants; flour mills, pasta and cookie production; construction; power generation and financial services.

Gutiérrez was born February 28, 1958 in Guatemala City, Guatemala

Guatemala

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Background

Mr. Gutiérrez is the President and CEO of Pollo Campero, which was founded in 1971 by Mr. Gutierrez’s father and is one of the largest Guatemalan fast food chains. In January 2007, a survey by the Asociación de Gerentes de Guatemala revealed that, if given the choice, most Guatemalans would choose to work at Pollo Campero. According to Small Business Opportunities Magazine, Pollo Campero, which serves over 75 million customers per year with over 7,000 employees, opened its first U.S. franchised restaurant in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California, in April 2002, and now has over 30 franchised restaurants in California

California

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, New York

New York

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, Texas

Texas

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and other states. Most recently, according to EKA, La Revista Empresarial, a monthly business magazine from Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, Pollo Campero has opened its first restaurant in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

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, and is expanding to Asia

Asia

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, having already opened its first restaurant in Jakarta

Jakarta

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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. Under Mr. Gutiérrez’s leadership, Pollo Campero was declared one of the top ten companies to work for in a survey conducted by the business publication, Estrategia y Negocios.

Mr. Gutiérrez has been on the cover of Newsweek
Newsweek
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as a Super CEO and was named one of their Ten Big Thinkers for Big Business. Mr. Gutiérrez is a member of the Board of Directors of the Juan Bautista Gutierrez Foundation (Fundación Juan Bautista Gutierrez), which supports community development projects and education. Mr. Gutiérrez supports humanitarian causes such as “Teletón” and “Help Me To Live” (Ayudame A Vivir), which helps low income child cancer patients.

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