Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Organization

Organization

All campuses are sponsored by non-profit organizations composed primarily of local businesspeople. The Monterrey Campus is sponsored by Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, A.C. (EISAC), which co-sponsored the system as a whole until a newly built organization, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, A.C. (ITESMAC) overtook those responsibilities. Such organizations (effectively serving as boards of trustees) are responsible for electing the rectors or directors of a particular campus. Since February 2012, the president of ITESMAC is José Antonio Fernández, a class of 1976 alumnus and current chairman and CEO of FEMSA, Latin America's largest beverage company. Former presidents include the founder, Eugenio Garza Sada (1943–73) and his son, Eugenio Garza Lagüera (1973–97), who both served as chairman of the board of what would later be called FEMSA, and Lorenzo Zambrano (1997-2012), a class of 1966 alumnus and current head of Cemex, the World's third largest cement producer.

Internally, a system-wide rectorate based in Monterrey oversee six regional rectorates that supervise all campuses nationwide and several vice-rectorates attending internal affairs. Since 2011, the system-wide rector is Salvador Alva, former president of PepsiCo Foods & Beverages Latin America. Former heads of the Institute include:

  • León Ávalos y Vez (1943–1947) first director-general.
  • Roberto Guajardo Suárez (1947–1951) second director-general.
  • Víctor Bravo Ahuja (1951–1958) third director-general, and from 11 April 1955, first rector.
  • Fernando García Roel (1959–1984) second rector.
  • Rafael Rangel Sostmann (1985–2011) third rector.

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