José Roberto Danel DÃaz is a certified Public Accountant graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has postgraduate studies in Business Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), in Business Management at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) and in Corporate Governance at Yale University, Stanford University and University of Harvard.
He held the highest positions in Finance in Grupo Vitro, Grupo Desc and Industrias Peñoles. He serves as Board Member and chairs, or forms part of various committees, in public and private companies as well as financial institutions. He is member of the Colegio de Contadores Públicos de México (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Mexico), Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos (Mexican Institute of Public Accountants), Chairman of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (Corporate Governance Best Practices Committee), member of the Latin American Corporate Governance Institute (OECDWorld Bank), the National Association of Corporate Directors (USA) and in the International Corporate Governance Network in United Kingdom.