Lorenzo Mendoza

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.

As of November 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$2.7 billion.

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.

Mendoza attended the Hun School of Princeton in New Jersey, 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.

Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez (born 5 October 1965) is a Venezuelan billionaire businessman, the CEO of Empresas Polar, owned by his family, and Venezuela's largest privately held company, with $7 billion in annual sales.

Mendoza is the third and last generation of the family that controls Empresas Polar, Venezuela's largest privately held company, founded by his grandfather as a beer company in 1941.