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Interviewed managers by country and industry
52 managers from 13 countries. Updated on October 19, 2026.
Argentina · 3
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Printing and packaging | Ignacio Lorente | Commercial Director | Ep. 25 Professionalization, culture and tough decisions in the SME industry |
| Textiles and apparel | Felipe Kopelowicz | Chief Executive Officer · Kopelco | Ep. 1 Professionalization, culture and tough decisions in the SME industry |
| Textiles and apparel | Ignacio Berrueta Villalobos | General Manager | Ep. 41 Commercial leadership and brand strategy in the textile industry |
Bolivia · 3
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| No industry | Walter Jorge Ferrufino Ponce | CEO/General Manager | Ep. 4 Bolivia / Laboratorio Clínico Praxis |
| Sustainability industry/Thermoplastics | Guillermo Mealla Castro | Production Manager | Ep. 22 Environmental and industrial innovation – wildfire mitigation and circular economy in Bolivia |
| Sustainability industry/Urban furniture | Manuel Laredo | CEO/General Manager · Grupo Mamut | Ep. 10 Founder of Grupo Mamut – innovation, sustainability and circular expansion from Bolivia to Mexico |
Chile · 3
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Germán Pinilla Valenzuela | General Manager · Pharmagroup | Ep. 20 CEO of Pharmagroup Chile – pharmaceutical industry, technical leadership and regulated expansion in Chile |
| Chemicals and petrochemicals | Paulo Renato Ferreira | General Manager · Artecola Química | Ep. 19 Stability under constant pressure in the chemical industry |
| Forestry | Gino Brunetto | General Manager · Grupo Forestal Río Claro | Ep. 18 Grupo Forestal Chile – financial transformation, operational efficiency and leadership in Chilean industries |
Colombia · 11
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Victor Marceles | General Manager | Ep. 23 Mergers, global strategy and multicultural leadership in biotechnology |
| Agribusiness | Sebastián Cantor | General Manager | Ep. 39 Operational leadership in agribusiness |
| Agribusiness | José Yarso Moreno | Operations Manager | Ep. 48 Operational leadership and agro-industrial transformation in Colombia |
| Automotive and auto parts | Daniel Mendoza Rebolledo | Commercial Director | Ep. 8 Daniel Mendoza Rebolledo Colombia/General Manager Latin America – Multi-regional expansion, Leadership in logistics and sales |
| Automotive and auto parts | Juan Carlos Andrade Giraldo | General Manager | Ep. 24 Strategy, after-sales and network expansion in the Latin American automotive industry |
| Building materials | Ferney Gonzalez | CEO – General Manager | Ep. 7 Colombia / Selling by advising customers |
| No industry | Jeickson Castrillon | General Manager · Turgas | Ep. 53 TURGAS Colombia Jeickson Castrillon and the challenge of industrializing natural gas |
| Printing and packaging | Armando Romero Jaramillo | CEO/General Manager | Ep. 17 CEO of Sellopack – conscious leadership, resilience and business culture in Colombia |
| Processed food and beverages | Sigifredo Diaz Benavides | CEO/General Manager · Avocados del Quindío | Ep. 12 CEO of Avocados del Quindío – exporting chemical-free Colombian avocado oil to 12 countries |
| Sustainability industry/Thermoplastics | Ricardo Xavier de Oliveira | General Manager · Amtex Corp | Ep. 36 Efficiency, sustainability and technical leadership at Amtex |
| Sustainability industry/Thermoplastics | Sergio Marín | Production Manager | Ep. 46 Leading from the plant floor |
Costa Rica · 2
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Devices | Adrian Casares | General Manager | Ep. 27 Engineering, quality and technical leadership in medical device manufacturing – Cadence Costa Rica |
| Technical vinyls | Moisés de Jesús Hernández Méndez | General Manager · Proquinal | Ep. 37 Moving from blame to structural improvement |
Dominican Republic · 1
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processed food and beverages | Ángel Gonell | Production Manager | Ep. 26 Operational leadership in beverage manufacturing |
Ecuador · 1
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processed food and beverages | Julio Alberto Tigua | General Manager | Ep. 28 Technical leadership and industrial innovation in the fishing industry |
El Salvador · 1
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Rogelio Ernesto Ramírez Arias | General Manager | Ep. 51 Leading when the cycle is unforgiving – agro-industrial operational transformation |
Mexico · 15
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive and auto parts | Santiago Salmones | Commercial Director | Ep. 5 Automotive Sales Mexico |
| Automotive and auto parts | Fernando F. Ochoa Muller | General Manager · Thyssenkrupp Bilstein | Ep. 15 Operations management in international automotive environments |
| Automotive and auto parts | Ricardo Vazquez | General Manager · Trelleborg | Ep. 33 Transforming an industrial plant from the inside |
| Automotive and auto parts | Francisco Estrada | General Manager · RM Sheet Metal | Ep. 38 Operational leadership with full traceability at RIPIPSA |
| Electronics and home appliances | Efrén A. Franco | General Manager · USEONG | Ep. 6 Horizon-based production planning management |
| Electronics and home appliances | Oscar Necochea | Production Director | Ep. 49 When growth creates disorder – scaling production in the middle of chaos |
| Machinery and equipment | José Tomás García Zapata | General Manager · Maquinser | Ep. 13 Director of Maquiser Industrial – decisions under pressure, automation and operational leadership |
| Machinery and equipment | Carlos Gama | General Manager | Ep. 44 Strategy, corporate governance and financial leadership |
| Manufacturing | Carlos Eloy Rodríguez | General Manager · Labor Mexicana | Ep. 52 Labor Mexicana Mexico Carlos Eloy Rodríguez – efficiency, culture and flexibility in changing industrial environments |
| Metallurgy | Alejandro Saldaña | General Manager | Ep. 40 Precision, people and productivity in industrial metalworking production |
| Metallurgy | Gustavo González Martínez | General Manager | Ep. 42 Operational leadership and efficiency in multiservice organizations |
| Printing and packaging | Luis Rubén Villalobos Helo | General Manager | Ep. 29 Commercial leadership and organizational transformation in the packaging industry |
| Printing and packaging | Juan Carlos Guzmán Sedano | General Manager · Grupo Comercial de Empaques | Ep. 32 Not all cardboard is equal: the input determines profitability |
| Wood and furniture | Eduardo Montes | General Manager · K-Delta | Ep. 9 Manufacturing general manager – operational leadership and industrial expansion at K-Delta |
| Wood and furniture | Luis Loredo | General Manager | Ep. 14 General Manager of Alcore Regiomontana – operational excellence and lean leadership in industrial manufacturing |
Peru · 4
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive and auto parts | Marianella Cabanillas | General Manager | Ep. 45 Public innovation, women's leadership and transformation in government services |
| No industry | Pedro Herrera | CEO/General Manager | Ep. 47 Technical innovation, operational leadership and precision manufacturing |
| No industry | Hernan Ojeda | Production Director | Ep. 50 From the workshop to the mine – leading from technical knowledge |
| Textiles and apparel | Lorenzo Ortiz | General Manager | Ep. 21 Venture Builder at Cotton Nation and Neofibers – textile innovation, regenerative models and operational leadership |
Spain · 4
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace | Juan Manuel Valcárcel | General Manager · Inventia Kinetics | Ep. 35 The risk of being good operationally but bad strategically |
| Machinery and equipment | David Pardo Peiro | CEO/General Manager · NTGAS | Ep. 31 Innovating in professional kitchens from industry |
| Printing and packaging | Josep M. Berga Ferres | General Manager | Ep. 30 Leadership in the transformation of sustainable European packaging |
| Sustainability industry/Thermoplastics | Sergio Moriano García | General Manager · Birziplastik | Ep. 3 Adaptability, active delegation and crisis leadership in Argentine industry |
Spain-Portugal · 1
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive and auto parts | Miguel Ángel Rubio Arnáiz | Commercial Director · Wegmann | Ep. 11 Director at WEGMANN automotive – from Michelin to Bridgestone, how to turn selling into strategic advisory |
Uruguay · 3
| Industry | Manager | Role and company | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Manuel Gonzalez | General Manager · Sienz Latam | Ep. 16 Agro-industrial innovation, operational leadership and post-harvest technology |
| Automotive and auto parts | Mauricio Lipscher | Consultant · IRONMAN 4x4 | Ep. 2 Operational challenges, with their successes and mistakes |
| Home Care | Nicolás Grille | General Manager | Ep. 34 Transforming a family business through culture |