Gonzalo Batista Guerrero

International Commercial Director at AKO Group

Gonzalo Batista Guerrero currently serves as the International Commercial Director at AKO since May 2025. Previously, Gonzalo held various significant roles at SIMON from October 2001 to May 2025, including EMEA Tertiary Business Unit Director, where responsibility encompassed developing the tertiary segment's business strategy while managing a team of over 145 individuals. Additional positions at SIMON involved leadership in the Asia Pacific region, corporate lighting, and marketing. Gonzalo's earlier experience includes roles at companies such as GRUNDIG España and Eaton Corporation, along with academic contributions as a marketing professor at EUSS and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Gonzalo's educational background includes an MBA from Esade and engineering degrees from Universitat Ramon Llull and IESE Business School.

Links

Previous companies


Org chart

No direct reports

Teams

This person is not in any teams


Offices

This person is not in any offices


AKO Group

AKO is one of the leading companies in the field of Temperature Regulation and Control for the Refrigeration market. AKO provides innovative products for the energy efficiency, food security, and gas leak detection to the whole cold chain, increasing business competitively and satisfaction of our customers. - More than 40 years of growth. - More than 100 employees. - More than 8,000 m2 of central facilities for Design, Manufacturing and Commercialization. - Portfolio of 3.000 devices - More than 300 customers. - International subsidiary in Mexico. - Commercial Operations in more than 65 countries. - Experimentation Lab to design and develop new products. - ISO9001 Quality System and ISO14001 Environmental Management System. - Official recognition by the Spanish Government as a Innovative SME - Permanent cooperation agreements with (UPC, Udl) Universities and (IRTA, Eurecat) Technological Centres.


Headquarters

Barcelona, Spain

Employees

51-200

Links