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MARIA EUGENIA VILLANUEVA WILLIAMS
Ms. Villanueva has a successful career of more than 25 years, assuming responsibilities of increasing accountabilities in leadership roles in the areas of human resources, public and government relations, sales, customer service and logistics, complemented with managerial, project administration and administrative experience. She has vast experience working in multicultural business environments with proven results;people oriented, with strengths in international business negotiations, human resources, government contracts, as well as public and legal affairs and customer service.
At the same time Ms. Villanueva created a consultancy and translation services office to support international corporations in their launching of operations, as well as to provide professional legal, financial and administrative translations.
In 2002, with four other partners, she established two consultancy and training firms, Transition and Change Management, S.A. de C.V. and Transition and Career Management, S.A. de C.V., to provide outplacement, coaching, change management, corporate culture, assessment tools and human resources consultancy and training.
From 1994 to 2001, she coordinated the establishment of the Mexican subsidiary of GATXRail Corporation in Mexico City ensuring communication at all levels between the Mexican and U.S. headquarters by assisting in the creation of the human resources, sales, accounting & administrative operations of the Mexican business, as well as the fleet distribution and customer service functions, including the importation and exportation of railcars and the organization of the different launching of operations and company events. She was instrumental in opening and closing railcar repair centers, coordinating all human resources, administrative, labor and legal issues.
She established her own translation business that she led from 1980 to 1994. In addition to translating legal and financial documents (for prominent banks and legal firms in Mexico), videoconferences, training seminars, policy and security manuals and other classified and confidential documents, activities included meetings with Goldman Sachs & Co. to prepare legal documents for placement of Comermex (now Scotiabank) stock in the New York Stock Exchange and Chemical Securities Inc. for evaluation of the credit activities of the bank; meetings with officers of the Ministry of Communications & Transportation, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (Mexico’s railroad company at the time), Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), U.S. Embassy Officials and industry members for different international clients, as well as participation of the launching activities of different firms.
Ms. Villanueva worked for Ford Motor Company from 1967 through 1979 holding different positions which required the responsibility for the coordination of visits to Mexico City of Ford U.S. top executives, as well as provide support for the organization of meetings and interviews of such executives with Mexican government officers; training seminars; special sales presentations; meetings of the Mexico-U.S. Quadripartite Committee for the implementation of agro-industrial & tourism projects in Mexico, which was integrated by the President of IBM U.S., the President of Ford Latin America and a New York Senator, as well as the Director of the ICA Group, the Director of the DESC Group and the Minister of Commerce and Industrial Development of Mexico.
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