Bio

Jose joined Salt Creek Capital as an Executive Partner in 2022. He brings over 30 years of general management experience in the Building Materials and Industrial Manufacturing sectors. He is currently an Independent Director of the Board at the Barton Group, a manufacturer of garnet material used in Waterjet cutting and sandblasting applications, where he serves as a member of the Audit & Finance, and the Nominating & Governance Committees. Prior to joining Salt Creek, Jose was the President & CEO, at Giant Cement Holding Inc., a $250M revenue Cement Company, where he led the company’s turnaround from a negative operating profit position to $37M in EBITDA within a four-year period, prior to selling a majority stake – at a premium valuation – to a Mexican conglomerate owned by the Carlos Slim group. He has lived in ten (10) countries and has had extensive domestic and international experience, having led five post-merger integration acquisitions and performing an equal number of business turnarounds in several regions primarily at CEMEX, a Global Building Materials Company, most notably as the Regional President of a $1B vertically integrated business in Central Eastern Europe & Israel, and before that, as President of the Company’s $250M Egyptian operations.