ALEJANDRO SILVA
Alejandro Silva is a Mexican national. He is the son of Mrs. Alejandro Silva Hurtado (Margarita Platt de Silva) and the late Dr. Alejandro Silva Hurtado. He became a United States citizen in 1997. He resides in Chicago, is married and has three children.
Mr. Silva is chairman of the Board of Evans Food Group Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, having acquired Evans in 1985. Evans Food has plants in Ohio, California, Texas, and Mexico.
He entered the food business in Mexico in 1972 as Operations Manager and Assistant Plant Manager of KIR Alimentos S.A. In 1979 he began a joint venture in Monterrey, Mexico; Distribudora Mezquital Del Oro, S.A. and started Alimentos Finos del Norte that later bought Evans Food in Chicago.
He received his BS in food technology from Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM ) in Monterrey, Nueva Leon, Mexico. He received his MS in food engineering from the National College of Food Technology in Weybridge Surrey, England. He has, also, received diplomas from the London School of Foreign Trade and from the College of Distribution Trades in Advanced Meat Technology. He attended Alta Direccion de Empress (IPADE) Advanced Management Program, Monterrey, Mexico; Harvard Business School (Owner/President Management Course)1985-1987; Northwestern University and The Kellogg Graduate School of Business. He has attended Directors College at Harvard, University of Chicago, Wharton School, Stanford focused in the new act of Congress of Sarbanes-Oxley and implication in the Board of Publicly Traded Companies. He has, also, taken several courses in commodity trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. He has also been a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College.
He is member of the Board of directors of the Private Bancorp Inc (Nasdaq- PVTB) served in the Compensation Governance and Loan Committee.
He is Member of the Board of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as Chairman of the Finance, Budgeting Committee
He is also member of the Multicultural Advisory Board of Kraft Foods.
Chairman of the Chicago Advisory Board of NAFINSA Largest Mexican Development Bank
Board Member of the Advisory Council on Agriculture, Small Business and Labor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Board Member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (executive committee and Nominating)
Board Member of the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
Board Member of the New American Alliance (NAA) National Latino Initiative.
Board Member of the Mexican Fine Art Museum.
Board Member Renascence 2010 entrusted to create 100 Charter schools in Chicago
Founder of the Board Nuestro Futuro (Chicago Community Trust)Latino Initiative to offer grants to Latino Non for profit Organizations.
Chairman of Mexico -Chicago sister cities committee.
Advisory Board of Mexican Tourism Ministry.
Harvard Business Club, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Economic Club, Member of Commercial club and civic committee of Chicago.
Mr. Silva is the recipient of the following awards:
Mexican American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois 1998 Food Industry Award Midwest African/American Business Development Conference
1998 Latino Globalist Award
1999 Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Inductee United States Dept. of Commerce Minority Enterprises Development Agency's 1999 Award
2006 Double Eagle Award US Mexican Chamber
Mr. Silva has been named in the top 100 ICIC Magazine Inner City for the last three years. (The ICIC is led by Michael E. Porter from Harvard Business School). Their objective is transforming Inner cities of USA in competitive areas of development.
Mr. Silva is part of the 100 most influential Latinos accordingly with Latino Leaders.
Evans Food Group Ltd. is the largest Hispanic Company in Chicago land according to Crain's Magazine and the Minority Owned Companies.
Mr. Silva's e-mail address is:
alejandro@ameritech.net
