Sergio Paiz

Sergio Paiz is the CEO of Grupo PDC, a consumer-products company with operations in numerous Latin American countries. PDC manufactures and distributes products to retailers ranging from Walmart to more than 200,000 neighborhood stores. Under Sergio's leadership, PDC has built an entrepreneurial culture where employees think and act like owners — a transformation he chronicles in his book, Every Manager an Entrepreneur.

Sergio holds a degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Lehigh University, and has completed executive education at Harvard. He is an active member of YPO, a former finance professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, and has served on the boards of Interbanco, CIBUS (McDonald's Central America), and CARHCO (now Walmart Central America).

Sergio lives in Guatemala City with his wife, Paulina, and their four children.