Carlos Pellas Chamorro

Carlos Pellas was born on January 10, 1953 in Granada, Nicaragua. Mr. Pellas is the major shareholder of Grupo Pellas, a conglomerate of financial, industrial and commercial companies with over 125,000 employees. Mr. Pellas is one of the richest men in Latin America

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Pellas is the Chairman of the Board of BAC Florida Bank (an FDIC member bank, chartered in the State of Florida) and of BAC-Credomatic Network, the largest and most sophisticated banking and credit card business in Latin America. BAC-Credomatic has more than 1.5 million customers and processes credit card billings of more than $5.0 Billion per year. (In 2005 GE Capital, through a wholly owned subsidiary, acquired 49.99% of BAC-CREDOMATIC Latin America.)

He is also the Chairman of the Board of Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited (the second largest sugar mill in Latin America) and Companía Licorera de Nicaragua (maker of Flor de Caña . and other rums with sales of more than 3 million cases worldwide).

In addition, Mr. Pellas is the Chairman of the Board of GBM Corporation (an IBM alliance company with exclusive distribution rights of all IBM products and services in Latin America and in the Dominican Republic). Further, Mr. Pellas is a director and a partner of Casa Pellas (which distributes Toyota, Hino, Suzuki and Yamaha in Nicaragua).

His Philantropy

Mr. Pellas is involved in many philanthropic initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the following institutions:

INCAE Business School (as one of the top Business School in Latin America, INCAE has graduated more than 5000 MBA’s in its 40 year history);

American Nicaraguan Foundation (ANF has channeled more than a billion dollars to Nicaragua in the last 15 years);

Asociación Pro Niños Quemados de Nicaragua (APROQUEN which is headed by his wife, Vivian, has provided more than 30,000 surgeries, free of charge, to improve the lives of burned children in Nicaragua); and

International Game Fishing Association (IGFA is a non for profit organization dedicated to the protection of game fish throughout the world).

Awards and recognitions

Mr. Pellas has been the recipient of many awards. The Chambers of Commerce of Latin America in USA named him Businessman of the Year in 2005. His peers chose him as the most admired Latin American Businessman in the March 2008 edition of Estrategias y Negocios and again in the March 2009 edition. He was distinguished in April 2008 by the President of Italy with the Order of the Stella Della Solidarietá Italiana. In October 2008 he was named Honorary Consul of Italy in Granada, Nicaragua.

Background

Mr. Carlos Pellas holds a B.A. in Economics, an M.A. in Food Research and an MBA, all from Stanford University. Mr. Pellas has an Italian background, his family came to Granada from the north of Italy Mr. Pellas and his wife Vivian reside in Managua, Nicaragua. They are the parents of three children. The richest man in the world (Carlos Slim) is one of his close friends. In 2008 they began to set up new business in Latin American

External links

• Grupo Pellas's Website
• Grupo Pellas News Portal
• Follow us on Twitter
• Grupo Pellas on Youtube
• Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited
• Rum Flor de Cana
• Compania Licorera de Nicaragua
• American Nicaragua Foundation - ANF
• Casa Pellas
• GBM
• Entrevista de la Revista Forbes a Carlos Pellas Chamorro
• Entrevista a Carlos Pellas Chamorro sobre la labor de la Asociacion Pro Ninos Quemados de Nicaragua - APROQUEN
• Entrevista de la revista Estrategia y Negocios a Carlos Pellas Chamorro en ocasión de haber sido sido elegido por 3a vez entre los empresarios más admirados de Latino América