Salvador Alva

Salvador Alva (Mexico City, 1951) is one of the most influential business and academic leaders in Mexico, known for transforming organizations through talent development, innovation, and empowerment. A chemical engineer from UNAM, he began his career at Cervecería Moctezuma before joining PepsiCo, where he rose to president of Latin America and member of the global Executive Committee, leading teams of more than 36,000 direct employees and 40,000 indirect ones. In 2011, he took over the presidency of Tecnológico de Monterrey, from where he led the deep modernization that positioned it as the #1 private university in Mexico and one of the best in the world. After his time at Tec, he founded the incubator Novo Capital, boosting entrepreneurship and innovation in the country

Alva has been recognized as one of the six most influential minority leaders in the United States by Fortune magazine (2005), and sits on the boards of companies and national and international organizations. He is the author of Your Life, Your Best Business (2009), Admired Company: the recipe (2011) and What a Leader Should Not Delegate, as well as co-author of 20/20, 20 great lists from 20 outstanding thinkers and A Possible Mexico alongside José Antonio Fernández Carbajal. His thoughts on leadership and organizational transformation have influenced generations of leaders, entrepreneurs, and businessmen in Latin America, consolidating his legacy as a benchmark for innovative management and excellence in education.

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