CACIF appoints new president for the period 2024-2025 – Publinews – 2024-04-21 15:40:53

The Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations (CACIF) issued a statement that establishes who is the person designated to assume the position of presidency in the period 2024-2025.

To that extent, he details that Carmen María Torrebiarte is the new president, who will lead the institution.

“It has been characterized by its union leadership and its actions in favor of prosperity and development, particularly in rural areas of the country. Since 2000 she has been director of Grupo Cobán, a company with more than 100 years of experience that has contributed to the progress of the families of San Cristóbal Verapaz, where the company is located,” she adds.

Likewise, she highlights that she has been president of the CIG Footwear Guild and coordinator of the CACIF Women commission since 2022, where she has demonstrated her ability to generate alliances, maintain permanent dialogues with different sectors of the country and support initiatives with microbusinesses and entrepreneurs.

Likewise, Charles Bland, from the Chamber of Agriculture, and José Porras, from the Chamber of Finance, were elected to the Executive Committee, in the first and second vice-presidencies, respectively.

“The unions represented in CACIF trust that, under the Presidency of Torrebiarte Benford, the Organized Business Sector of Guatemala will continue to grow, increasing its base of entrepreneurs and articulating and promoting proposals and policies that allow and facilitate the prosperity of each and every one of them. the Guatemalans,” he concludes.