BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Turner has been president, CEO, and majority shareholder of Katcon since 2009, leading the company through its process of international consolidation. He has enjoyed a varied and enormously successful business career, with spells as an executive at Altos Hornos de México and Grupo Industrial Alfa. He also directs a number of other companies in areas ranging from real estate and foodstuffs to business services.

Mr. Turner has a varied civic career in parallel with his business activities. A champion debater in his youth, he has been active in politics and an invited columnist for El Norte, a leading Monterrey newspaper. In 2006, he founded Mexico’s National Association of Independent Businessmen, an organization he still presides over.

After earning first degree in accountingat Monterrey Tech (ITESM), Mr. Turner received a aster’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He remains a professor at ITESM.

katcon

Katcon is a major supplier of catalytic converters, manifolds, and complete exhaust systems to the global automotive industry, with factories in eight countries and an additional three due to open through 2015, as well as four research and design facilities around the world.

Headquartered in Monterrey, the company started operations in 1993 as a one-product firm assembling catalytic converters—known in the trade as “canning”—but quickly expanded, always with an emphasis on quality and delivery. By 2000, it was named a GM Supplier of the Year,and today it is a major supplier for both diesel and gasoline applications in light- and heavy-duty situations, serving on- and off-road vehiclesand the engine and power industries.

Katcon has grown organically and through acquisition. The most important expansions came in 2007 and 2009, when it absorbed all of Delphi’s North American converter production and then its global exhaust businesses.