Carlos Fernández González

Board Member at Amrest

Over the last 30 years, Mr. Carlos Fernández González has held management positions in various business sectors. These positions were highly complex and required Mr. Fernández González to have a high level of skill and responsibility.

He was the CEO (1997-2013) and Chairman of the Board of Directors (2005-2013) of Modelo Group. From the time he was named CEO, up to 2013, this group consolidated its position as the leading brewing company in Mexico, the seventh biggest worldwide and the world's biggest beer exporter.

He has also served on the boards of national and international companies, including Anheuser Busch (US), Emerson Electric Co. (US), Seeger Industrial (Spain), Grupo Televisa (Mexico), Crown Imports, Ltd. (US), Inbursa (Mexico), Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores) and Banco Santander, S.A. He has served on the advisory board of the Modelo Group and has also been a member of the international advisory board at Banco Santander, S.A. and a director of Grupo Financiero Santander México S.A.B de C.V.

Mr. Fernández González is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Finaccess S.A.P.I. de C.V. – a company of which he was founder – which is active in Mexico, Spain and the US. He is also a non-executive director of Inmobiliaria Colonial, S.A. and member of the Board of Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited.

Mr. Fernández González is an industrial engineer and has also studied on senior management programmes at the IPADE Business School (Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa).

Mr. Fernández González has been a member of the Board of Directors since the registration of AmRest in Spain (12 March 2018). Earlier (since 12 December 2016) he had been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Company.

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