María Asunción Aramburuzabala

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Aramburuzabala and the second or maternal family name is Larregui.

María Asunción Aramburuzabala
File:MaAsuncionAramburuzabala.gif María Asunción Aramburuzabala
Born	May 2, 1963 Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Net worth	$5.2 billion
Spouse(s)	Paulo Patricio Zapata Navarro (divorced) Tony Garza (divorced)
Children	2

María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui (born May 2, 1963) is a Mexican businesswoman. She is chairperson of Tresalia Capital and has a net worth of over US$5 billion.

Personal

María Asunción Aramburuzabala — referred to as Marisun by her friends — was born on May 2, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico. She is the granddaughter of Félix Aramburuzabala, who co-founded the Mexican brewery Grupo Modelo with his friend and partner don Pablo Díez Fernández . Her father, Pablo Aramburuzabala, was the Executive Vice President of the Grupo Modelo brewery.

Aramburuzabala graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México where she majored in Accounting.

In 1982 she married Paulo Patricio Zapata Navarro. They had two children and divorced in 1997.

On February 26, 2005, she married Tony Garza, US ambassador to Mexico, in a small religious ceremony in Mexico City. On April 23, they had the civil ceremony near Valle de Bravo, west of Mexico City. U.S. First Lady Laura Bush attended. An estimated one-third of the guests were from Texas. The couple divorced in May 2010.

Family business

The Mexican brewery, Cervecería Modelo, was founded in 1925 by a group of businessmen, including don Pablo Díez Fernández — who became the company's President, CEO and major stockholder — and Felix Aramburuzabala. Felix' son, Pablo Aramburuzabala, the Executive Vice President of the brewery, died unexpectedly in 1995 of lung cancer at the age of 63. After his death, several groups tried to gain control of his family's share in Modelo — his wife and two daughters bonded together against these groups.

The family created Tresalia Capital ("tres aliadas" or three allies) in order to diversify the family investments. Through Tresalia, Aramburuzabala family has made investments in large Mexican companies, as well as the management of private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, technology and the creation of new companies. Tresalia is also distinguished for capitalizing investment projects from young entrepreneurs.

After Grupo Modelo's sale she reinvested her proceeds into Anheuser Busch InBev continuing the family tradition in the beer business.

Tresalia is today the leading family office in Mexico with structured investment lines in the Private Equity, Real Estate, Technology, Infrastructure and public markets.

Wealth

With a net worth estimated at $5.2 billion and ranking 270th worldwide, Mariasun is the second richest woman in Mexico.

External links

• "M.A. Aramburuzabala", Forbes, October 2006.
• "Brewing Change" by Monica Showalter, Forbes, June 18, 2001.
• "Data: M.A. Aramburuzabala", BusinessWeek, July 10, 2000.
• "Cracks in Mexico's Glass Ceiling" by Elizabeth Malkin, BusinessWeek, July 10, 2000.