Managing Partner

Manuel Monroy Petersen is the founder of Monroy Petersen. He is a former managing director and shareholder of McKinsey & Company. Over a period of 35 years he has served as a consultant to the public and private sectors. He has worked for Mexico’s Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Publico (Ministry of Finance and Public Credit), Instituto Mexicano de Comercio Exterior (Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade), Banco Mexicano Somex, and Banpesca. He has also served private businesses in the United States, Europe and Latin America in the areas of financial and strategic planning, organization, operations efficiency, and mergers and acquisitions. His clients throughout the years consist of some of Latin America’s largest corporations including Cemex, Grupo Desc, Fresh Del Monte Produce and Merck. He also has been President of Transportacion Marítima Mexicana, Latin America's largest shipping company, and of Fertilizantes Fosfatados Mexicanos, a major chemical company with operations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, and the United States. He founded Monroy Petersen in 1984 and lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Manuel holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Directors

Manuel Monroy Noriega has served 15 years as a consultant to businesses in the United States and Mexico in the areas of strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. Manuel was born and raised in Mexico City and now heads Monroy Petersen's office in California. He was part of Arthur Andersen's Global Corporate Finance practice based in San Francisco where he managed the auction processes of high-growth venture-backed companies. As the lead associate of the high-tech M&A group, he was responsible for identifying emerging growth sectors and for generating the group's proprietary research used throughout the US and European technology corporate finance teams. He has also worked as a consultant for the Latin America M&A group of New York based Bankers Trust, now part of Deutsche Bank, and for California Commerce Bank, a subsidiary of Citigroup. Manuel is qualified as an NASD General Securities Representative (Series 7 & 63) and as an accredited business appraiser from the IBA. He holds a Master's degree in Finance and Business Strategy from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California.