MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Uruguayan businessman among Latinamerica’s hundred most powerful

Gabriel T Rozman is executive vice president for emerging markets at the giant Indian corporation Tata

Uruguay’s Gabriel T. Rozman figures among Latinamerica’s hundred most powerful men and women in business according to the Latin Business Chronicle Power 100 ranking. Mr Rozman is executive vice-president for emerging markets at Tata Consulting Services, TCS, the Indian corporation that only in Latinamerica has over 6.000 staff in Latinamerica.

TheLatin Business Chronicle Power 100ranking includes natives of Latinamerica as well as foreign executives who have a significant impact on the region, supervising companies that are among the top tax payers and employers in several countries in the region.

The list includes people like Vicente Trius, who heads the huge Latinamerica operations of US-based Wal-Mart (the world’s largest retailer); Jean Marc Pueyo, who heads South America operations for France-based Carrefour (the world’s second-largest retailer); Viktor Klima, head of Volkswagen South America; Maureen Kempston Darkes, president of General Motors’ Latin America, Africa and Middle East division and José María Álvarez-Pallete, general manager for Latin America for Spain-based Telefonica.

CEO from public-sector companies also made the list: the new head of Mexico's Pemex, Juan José Suárez Coppel, and the powerful president of Venezuela's PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez.

The LBC 100 also has people that are influential locally in a given country, but not necessarily regionally. For example, Dionisio Romero Paoletti – the head of several Peruvian companies, who wields enormous influence in his home country, yet is little known outside of Peru. From Colombia: Jorge Londoño, CEO of Bancolombia; Gonzalo Restrepo from Éxito; Nicaragua’s Carlos Pella Chamorro and Jose A Leon from Dominican Republic.

Finally two of the region’s heavyweights: Carlos Slim from Mexico ranked among the world’s short list of wealthiest, and Sebastián Piñera a successful Chilean billionaire who is running for president next December and public opinion polls show him leading.

Latin Business Chronicle is a business site which specializes in Latinamerica. It regularly publishes the region’s 500 largest corporations and other annual indexes such as Latin Business Index, Latin Globalization Index, Latin Technology Index and Latin Security Index.