Juan Carlos Paiz is Presidential Commissioner for Competitiveness and Investment in Guatemala, during 2010, he set the strategy for foreign investment attraction and lead a private and public proposal to increase Guatemala’s Economic growth from current 4% to 8%. Paiz is Co-founder and President of Pani-Fresh, a 300 employee’s bakery present in 20 countries; he is also serving as president of McDonald’s Latin America Supply Chain Council. Paiz is professor at Universidad Marroquin and also teaches a leadership program in High School. A Director of Dutch Cooperation ICCO at the Regional Council level. In the past, Paiz has been Co-Founder and former President of GuateAmala, with objectives to coordinate community action to empower citizens. He has also served as president of FECAEXCA (Central America Exporters Federation), Agexport (Exporters Association), and CACIF (Guatemalan Business Council), where he coordinated the publication: "Kab’awil"; which documented internal policies towards reducing poverty.