Portada’s Brand Star Committee LATAM is a highly regarded group of brand marketing executives that are very enthusiastic about targeting consumers through cultural insights and passion points.
Read the FAQ about the Council System!
Carlos Leal
Marketing Director
Rappi
@RappiColombia
Bilingual business manager and corporate professional with a Master’s in Strategic Marketing and experience on management, marketing and commercial teams in FMCG and Pharma companies. Expert in developing Business Strategies, Digital Marketing, Trade Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Consumer Goods, Beverages, Innovations, Nutrition, New Products Introduction, Product Development, FMCG & Revenue Management.Skilled in advertising and distribution channel targeting, financial management and budget control.
José Camargo Samperio
Ecommerce SubDirector
Best Buy Mexico
@BestBuyMexico
Professional with more than 15 years of experience in marketing, digital, e-commerce, sales, communication and advertising with a broad strategic vision focused on business results. Basing his passion on performance, discipline and organization has allowed him to reach his goals, valuing and taking advantage of the right teams. Proactive person who likes to cooperate and participate in the business growth of the company leading and looking for challenges and new business opportunities at the same time.
German Villegas
Digital & E-Commerce Manager
Colgate Palmolive
@CP_News
Young marketer with over 5 years of experience, German graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana’s Marketing Degree and started his career at Colgate Mexico in 2013. After an internship in Hair Cair, German had key assignments in Personal Care and Oral Care, the core business of the company. In 2019, he became Head of Digital Marketing and E-Commerce for the Mexican subsidiary.

Arturo T. Delgado
IM&HE Marketing Manager – Americas
Siemens Digital Industries Software
@Siemens_Mexico
Highly self-motivated and goal-oriented professional with 10 years of experience in the fields of marketing, business and product management, sales and communications, having demonstrated strong commitment, analytical, problem-solving and learning skills, team worker, complying and leading projects from inception to completion, having performed in different countries and team up with different cultures.
Julian Garcia
Senior Marketing Program Manager
Amazon
@amazon
Skills & Endorsements: Google Analytics, E-Commerce and Double Click. Julian is always looking on different ways to help the team accomplish its goals. His great attitude helps the team environment to be great. Also his ownership and bias for action is outstanding.

Mariana Valdez Asiain
Marketing Cross Category
Manager Dyson
@Dyson
Julian Garcia leads Mass and Brand for Amazon México. He is responsible for building and executing the brand framework to develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns across ATL and digital platforms. He was part of the team to launch Amazon.com.mx passing through deals, homepage, events and demand generation channel management.
Nicolas Lopez
Core Salty Brands Sr Director Central & South America
PepsiCo Foods
@pepsico
Born in Buenos Aires. Lived in Mexico City and now in Miami. Graduated in business in the Universidad de San Andres (Argentina). Marketing professional with a sound background in top multi-national CPG companies like SC Johnson, AB Inbev and PepsiCo. More than twenty years building iconic brands across LATAM (Pepsi, Lays, Doritos, Cheetos, 7 Up, Mirinda, H2O, Brahma). Driving top-line revenue growth through consumer-first marketing, innovation and people development. Currently PepsiCo’s global brands senior marketing director for Central & South America salty snacks.

Gerald Fuchs Torrescano
Content & Digital Marketing Director
Seguros Monterrey New York Life
@SMNYL
Comunicólogo con mas de 18 años de experiencia en el desarrollo de estrategias de Marketing Communications, dominando disciplinas como Relaciones Públicas, Publicidad, Comunicación Estratégica, Planeación, Digital Deman Generation, a través de la creación de formas innovadoras y creativas de cumplir los objetivos de mercadotecnia de cualquier marca y/o servicio. Especialidades: Manejo de Crisis, Relación con Medios, Estrategias de Comunicación Institucional, Marketing Communications, Marketing Digital, Content, Demand Generation
Arturo Gonzalez
Product Marketing Manager North Latin America & Caribbean
Electrolux
@Electrolux
Arturo Gonzalez Frankenberger is a Product & Marketing Manager at Electrolux, responsible for developing and launching the business system around the product – the collection of products and services that will deliver the product’s promise; to lead the business strategy in relation to the portfolio management and brand communication. With 14 years of business and marketing experience with a consistent track record of results, Arturo has skills of brand strategy and communication, business strategy, product and P&L management, ATL, BTL, digital marketing, consumer research, market analysis, events, sponsorship, PR and media.
Ana Cristina Rivadeneyra
Marketing Manager – Mexico
WeWork
@WeWork
Ana Cristina has more than 3 years working at WeWork. She joined the company in 2017 as Marketing Manager for Mexico. She has also worked at Likeable Media México as VP Account Management, at Nestlé as Digital Brand and Ecommerce Manager and at Televisa Interactive Media as Digital Manager, among other companies. She has a Communications degree from Universidad Iberoamericana.
Javier Rodriguez
Regional Director America
Loewe Perfumes
@CLoeweOfficial
Business executive, energetic, dynamic, team leader, pragmatic, analytic, passionate of being a leader of the teams in the point of sales, target oriented and above all customer focus, with the firm conviction that people makes the difference. Wide knowledge of how to develop a luxury brand with different business models: subsidiaries, distributors, Travel Retail with wide dominion of local markets and also with the ability to accelerate the business in mature markets.
2020 Brand Star LATAM Committee Schedule
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▶︎February/March, 2020
Winter Virtual Meeting
(exact date tbd).▶︎June 4, 2020
In-person meeting at Portada Miami
▶︎August, 2020
Summer Virtual Meeting
(exact date tbd).▶︎October 29, 2020
In-person meeting at Portada Mexico