Board members

He is Vice President at Mastercard, and has a career path that combines the corporate, entrepreneurial and academic sectors. In his professional experience, he has held a leadership position at Grupo Posadas, Impulso-Grupo Empresarial and Mastercard.

Additionally, he has more than 8 years of consulting experience at McKinsey & Co., ITAM’s Center for Competitiveness Studies and Mastercard. As an entrepreneur, he owned and operated two franchises of Laboratorio Médico Polanco.

And at the Academy, he has been a professor for more than 20 years, full-time and by subject teacher, as well as Director of the Center for Senior Management in Engineering and Technology at Universidad Anáhuac México. With La Gaviota IAP, it has been part of the Patronage for almost 20 years.

His academic background is an Engineer from ITESM, and he holds Master’s and Doctorate degrees from MIT, as well as a post-doctorate at Tulane University.

Alejandro Noriega is General Director of Organizational Development for Grupo BAL, among his responsibilities is coordinating talent management and development initiatives throughout the Group, previously since 2006 he served as Director of Human Resources for GNP, the largest company in insurance in Mexico. He has an experience in Human Resources of more than 20 years in organizations from different Economic Sectors.

He has been a leader in the application of change processes, transformation programs and in different practices on compensation, organizational development and performance management, in order to consolidate his own culture that is a differentiator in the market.

He have degree in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Master in Administration from the same university. In addition, he has been a member of the board of directors of the Mexican Association of Human Resources (AMEDIRH). In 2014, he received the Executive of the Year award for his passion and commitment to the human resources function.

He served as President of La Gaviota from 1997 to 2005, where he created the basis for the Institution to have social and financial sustainability to date.

He is currently Director of the Mexican Association of Shared Service Centers and Business Process Operators; Director of the Specialized Group of Consultants and Trainers of the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Mexico City; independent consultor; Contributor to Espacio Empresarial and the magazine Consultoría. Industrial Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Senior Management and Diplomas in Administration, Strategy and Technology from UVM, IPADE, ITESM, Wharton and UC Berkeley. Certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), by the Ministry of Economy and by the National Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competencies (Conocer).

He has 27 years of experience in the areas of technology, administration and logistics, and Shared Service Centers and Outsourcing in various industries. He has directed projects in Mexico, USA, Central and South America for national and international organizations such as SHCP, KPMG, Accenture, IBM, Posadas, Modelo, Gerdau, Bimbo, Mahle, Goldcorp, Laureate, Veolia, Axxa and Gepp (Pepsi), among others .

He has participated as associate professor and invited professor at the Bachelor and Master levels and lectured at various organizations and universities such as  Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Anáhuac, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Cámara de Comercio, and the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network, in México and the United States.