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((Short description|Venezuelan businessman (born 1965)))
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| name        = Lorenzo Mendoza
| image       = Lorenzo Mendoza - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2012.jpg
| caption     = Mendoza in 2012
| birth_date  = ((Birth date and age|1965|10|05|df=yes))
| birth_place = [[Caracas]], Venezuela
| alma_mater  = [[Fordham University]] (BA)<br /> [[MIT Sloan School of Management]] (MBA)
| occupation  = Businessman
| title       = CEO, [[Empresas Polar]]
| spouse      = Maria Alexandra Pulido
| children    = 4
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'''Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez''' (born 5 October 1965) is a Venezuelan [[billionaire]] businessman, and CEO of [[Empresas Polar]], Venezuela's largest privately held company, with $7 billion in annual sales. The company was founded by his grandfather and is currently owned by his family.<ref>((Cite web |title=Lorenzo Mendoza & family |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/lorenzo-mendoza/ |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=Forbes |language=en))</ref> Mendoza has been listed as one of the top 10 people believed to rebuild Venezuela.<ref>((Cite magazine |date=April 18, 2018 |author=Steven Bodzin |title=10 People Who Will (One Day) Rebuild Venezuela: The Captain of Industry |url=https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/10-people-who-will-one-day-rebuild-venezuela-the-captain-of-industry/ |access-date=2024-02-17 |magazine=Americas Quarterly |language=en-US))</ref>

Lorenzo Mendoza has made a fortune selling beer and basic food items including flour, condiments, tuna fish, and wine through Empresas Polar, Venezuela's largest food company that was founded by his grandfather. 

He is a former Member of the Boards of AES [[La Electricidad de Caracas]], [[CANTV-Verizon]], and [[BBVA Banco Provincia]]<nowiki/>l. He was also a Member of the Board of [[Grupo GEPP]], Member of the Boards of [[MIT Sloan]], the Latin American Board of [[Georgetown University]], Group of Fifty ([[Group of Fifty|G-50]]), the [[Latin America Conservation Council]] (LACC), and the [[Latin American Business Council,]] and Member of the Boards of Trustees of [[Universidad Metropolitana]], and [[Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración]] (IESA). Ashoka Fellow and Member of the [[World Economic Forum]] (named a Global Young leader in 2005).

==Early life==
Mendoza was born in Semillero, Caracas to Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Quintero and Leonor Giménez Pocaterra.((Citation needed|date=July 2022))

Mendoza attended the [[Hun School of Princeton]] in New Jersey,<ref>((Cite web |url=https://outcomes.hunschool.org/page/notable-alumni |title=Notable Alumni |access-date=2017-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316041707/http://outcomes.hunschool.org/Page/Notable-Alumni |archive-date=2016-03-16 ))</ref> and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from [[Fordham University]], and an [[MBA]] in 1993 from the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]].<ref name="Forbes profile">((cite web |title=Forbes profile: Lorenzo Mendoza |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/lorenzo-mendoza/ |website=Forbes |access-date=4 April 2019))</ref>

==Polar holding==
Mendoza is the third generation of the family that controls [[Empresas Polar]], Venezuela's largest privately held company, founded by his grandfather as a beer company in 1941.((Citation needed|date=July 2022))

Empresas Polar is a holding that owns: Polar Brewery, Polar Foods, and Pepsi Venezuela. The brewery produces a Venezuelan popular beer called Polar, named after the [[polar bear]]. Polar Foods makes basic food products from corn flour and condiments to tuna fish and wine. Pepsi Venezuela fabricates different types of beverages. In 2009 Polar was affected by Venezuelan president [[Hugo Chavez]]'s land reform policies when the government took over one of the company's properties claiming the land was being underused.

Along with his family, Lorenzo supports one of Venezuela's largest charities, Fundacion Polar. The focus of the nonprofit organization is children's nutrition, health, and education.

As of November 2015, ''[[Forbes]]'' estimated his net worth at US$2.7 billion.<ref name=Forbes>((cite web|title=Lorenzo Mendoza|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/lorenzo-mendoza/|website=Forbes|access-date=4 November 2015))</ref>

On June 8, 2018, Lorenzo Mendoza was invited to an MBA convocation in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to speak about resilience in the business world, regarding the Venezuelan crisis. The company ("[[Empresas Polar]]") is one of Venezuela's major employers and is seen as a symbol of resilience in a country rocked by political and economic turmoil.<ref name=MIT>((Cite web|url=https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/mba-convocation-empresas-polar-ceo-spirit-resistance|title=At MBA convocation, Empresas Polar CEO on the spirit of resistance|website=MIT Sloan|date=20 December 2023 ))</ref>

==Personal life==
He is married to Maria Alexandra Pulido and has four children<ref name="Forbes profile"/> and likes to practice sports such as tennis, water skiing, snow skiing, baseball, and running.<ref>((Cite web |title=Lorenzo Mendoza |url=http://www.lideresenvenezuela.com/empresariolorenzomendoza.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305045553/http://www.lideresenvenezuela.com/empresariolorenzomendoza.html |archive-date=2018-03-05 |access-date=2021-12-30|website=Lideres en Venezuela |language=es))</ref>((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

His education includes a Bachelor of Arts / Science, Fordham University; a Master of Business Administration, Sloan School of [https://www.forbes.com/profile/lorenzo-mendoza/ Management]. 

==See also==
*[[List of billionaires]]

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