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Fernando Ruiz joined American Capital in October 2005 as Vice President on the Operations Team.
Prior to joining American Capital, Fernando held management positions in sourcing for the GE Consumer and Industrial Division in Puerto Rico and GE Appliances in Mexico. Fernando was responsible for leading and developing sourcing strategies to deliver 10%+ productivity goals on a material spend base of $280 million. Moreover, he simplified the supply chain process by consolidating the vendor base and reducing order to delivery lead-time to 5 days. He started his professional career as production engineer and ISO 9000 auditor at Mabe, which is a Mexican joint venture entity with GE Appliances. Fernando is certified Green Belt in Six Sigma.
Fernando received his MBA from a joint program between Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (Glendale, Arizona) and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, NL. Mexico). He earned his B.S. Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro (Queretaro, Qro, Mexico). | 