Javier Lopez-Portillo

Javier Lopez-Portillo joined Strategic Materials in 2018. He is the President of LatAm. Javier is responsible for developing and growing Mexico and LatAm operations as well as relationships with customers and suppliers. He has twenty-seven years of diverse and progressively responsible experience in manufacturing operations, production, quality, assurance, new product development and customer support with the most recent four years in a business development leadership role for LatAm. He has twenty-three years of experience in the glass industry in Mexico and USA in companies such as Vitro and Fevisa. He has a proven track record of operational management success with substantial leadership experience of all functional areas of plant management including engineering, quality assurance, production management, new product development, technical support, human resources, plant administration and finance, sales, logistics, distribution, and trade compliance as well as a strong understanding of cost accounting and global trading compliance to include C-TPAT, and US / Canada/ Mexican Customs. He has robust customer communication skills with experience having direct customer communications to develop and resolve operational issues such as product quality, worldwide processes, handling, storage, logistics, usage, etc. Javier graduated with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and has a minor in Industrial Engineering. He has recently finished his Masters of Science Global Leadership from University of San Diego.