Jose Sanchez serves as Executive Vice President in the firm�s Mexico City office. He has over 40 years of professional experience in the engineering, banking and financial areas. Prior executive search experience includes over 23 years with Egon Zehnder International, where he had the opportunity of founding and leading the firm�s Mexico office, turning it into one of the most successful organizations in its field. He began his professional career at Bufete Industrial, S.A. one of the most prestigious firms in the design and construction of industrial plants in the country. Afterwards, he was retained by Arthur D. Little an American consulting company to later on join Citibank where he reached the position of Resident Vice-President after a period in New York headquarters. He was also Finance and Planning Director for Cigatam, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Phillip Morris in Mexico. He has been a member of the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers (IMIQ), pf the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF) and of the Human Resources Direction Association (AMEDIRH). Jose holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico and has a MBA from Wharton School of Business and Finance at Pennsylvania University. He was Financial Planning professor at the Advanced Studies Division of the School of Chemistry of Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico during three years in the seventies. Jose is trilingual in Spanish, English and French, and has a partial knowledge of Italian.