Nos leaders

Woods Staton is the Executive Chairman of the Board. Woods was our Chief Executive Officer from 2007 through October 2015. He holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Emory University. He was McDonald’s joint venture partner in Argentina for over 20 years and served as the President of SLAD beginning in 2004. Woods is also a member of the founding family and served as the CEO and Chairman of the board of directors of Panamerican Beverages, Inc., or Panamco, which was Coca-Cola’s largest bottler in Latin America. Woods is cofounder of Endeavor Argentina, an organization for promoting entrepreneurship, as well as a founding partner of Ashoka Argentina, a global organization committed to investing in innovative solutions through social entrepreneurship. He was recently elected as a Board Member of the IMD Foundation in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is on the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C., serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as on the Chairman’s International Advisory Council of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

Marcelo Rabach is our Chief Executive Officer since July 1, 2019. Prior to his appointment, he was the Chief Operating Officer since August 2015, Divisional President for NOLAD since 2013, Vice President of Operations Development since 2012 and Divisional President in Brazil since 2008. He graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in 2002. He began his career at McDonald’s Argentina in 1990 and has over 17 years of line operations experience, starting as a crew employee and steadily advancing into larger operational roles. From 1999 until his appointment as McDonald’s Chief Operating Officer in Venezuela in 2005, Marcelo was responsible for the operations, real estate, construction, human resources, local store marketing, and training and franchising of a region within Argentina, holding the positions of Operations Manager and Operations Director. He was the Chief Operating Officer in Venezuela from 2005 until 2008.

Luis Raganato is our Chief Operating Officer since July 1, 2019. Prior to his appointment as such, he was the Divisional President for the Caribbean division and, before that, the General Director of Arcos Dorados in Peru. Luis began his career at Arcos Dorados in 1991 as a Trainee in the Nuevocentro Shopping location in the province of Córdoba, Argentina and has held various positions in Operations Management over the years. Luis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Instituto Aeronáutico de Argentina and a Master’s degree in Marketing and Business Development from Escuela Superior de Estudios de Marketing de Madrid.

Mariano Tannenbaum is our Chief Financial Officer. He joined Arcos Dorados in 2008 and has held several positions at the corporate level, with his last position being Senior Director of Corporate Finance. Previously, Mariano had a long international career in Europe and the United States. He worked for the IFG Group, a Swiss private bank, for Tyco International in Switzerland and Princeton, New Jersey and for Sabre Holdings in London. He began his career working for an economic consulting firm in Argentina as well as for the Argentine government, as part of the Ministry of Treasury and Public Finances. Mariano has an economics degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Master’s in finance from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and an MBA with a concentration in finance from the London Business School.

Paulo Camargo was appointed Divisional President for Brazil in October 2015. Prior to Paulos’s promotion, he served as Vice President of Operations for the Brazil Division for four years. Paulo has over 20 years of experience in the consumer, retail and services industry. He has worked for companies such as PepsiCo, FASA Corporation and Iron Mountain across a variety of geographies. Before joining Arcos Dorados in 2011, he was President of the Spain Division at Iron Mountain. Paulo has a postgraduate degree in Business Administration from Mackenzie University in São Paulo, and also holds an MBA from IEDE Business School in Spain. He has undertaken executive training at Harvard Business School in the United States, Henley Business School in England and the IESE Business School in Spain.

Gustavo Pascualino was appointed Divisional President for NOLAD in April 2021. Prior to his promotion, he served as Operations Vice President for the Brazil Division, beginning in 2016. He began his career in 1989 as a crew member at the iconic Florida Street restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to his most recent role in Brazil, he held various leadership positions in Operations, including Operations Director for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Division and Corporate Operations Development Director. He has a degree in Marketing from Universidad de Morón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has also received executive training from the IAE Business School in Argentina and the University of Miami.

Francis Staton is our Divisional President for SLAD and has also been a member of our board of directors since April 2018. Previously, he was Arcos Dorados’ Managing Director for Colombia, Aruba, Curaçao and Trinidad & Tobago. He joined the Arcos Dorados executive team in 2013 as Senior Manager of Business Development for our NOLAD Division. Prior to serving as Senior Manager of Business Development for our NOLAD Division, he held different operating roles within the organization and also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group office in Buenos Aires. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University in 2003, and subsequently earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2010. He has served on the board of Princeton in Latin America since 2015. Francis is the son of our Executive Chairman, Woods Staton.

Marlene Fernandez is Vice President of Government Relations. Prior to joining Arcos Dorados in 2009, she served as an elected Member of the House of Representatives in Bolivia where she held various leadership positions, including Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States of America, Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Ambassador to the Government of Italy and Representative of Bolivia to different specialized agencies of the United Nations. She was also Bureau Chief and Main Political Correspondent for CNN Spanish in Washington, D.C. She holds a Master of Science in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Universidad Argentina John. F. Kennedy and has completed courses in Finance for Executives, Strategic Communications, Conflict Resolution and Negotiations in Conflict at Harvard University.

Daniel Schleiniger is our Vice President of Investor Relations. He joined Arcos Dorados in 2014 and, after leaving us for fifteen months to serve as Vice President of Investor Relations for BrightView Holdings, Inc. He rejoined the Company in January 2020. Prior to joining Arcos Dorados, he worked at the Cisneros Group from 2000 to 2014, holding progressively more senior roles within investor relations, finance and treasury. His experience also includes equity research at Morgan Stanley corporate banking with Unibanco and consulting work for Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA) in Philadelphia. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry as well as an MBA with a concentration in finance, both from the University of Delaware.

David Grinberg is our Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. David joined Arcos Dorados in 2010, after leading the Communications area in Samsung and Nike, to serve as Sports Marketing Manager and, later, as Corporate Communications Director, Brazil Division. He focuses on the protection of the company’s reputation through integrated communication strategies, as well as crisis management and consumer relations. He is also responsible for the financial communication and the relationship with investor communities and market analysts. With over 20 years of experience in ​​communications, he was appointed “Communicator of the Year” by the Brazilian Association of Business Journalism in 2017, “Sports Marketing Professional of the Year” by the magazine Medio & Mensaje in 2015 and received the Arcos Dorados´ “President’s Award” in 2013. David holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Social Communication from the FIAM and a Master´s Degree in Corporate Communication from the Fundación Cásper Líbero.

Diego Benenzon is our Vice President for Human Resources. He joined the Company in April 2008 as a SLAD HR Talent and Development Director and has over ten years’ experience in leadership positions at Citibank where he was Vice President of Human Resources before joining the Company. Prior to Citibank Diego was a human resources consultant at Roland Berger International. He has also served as a senior consultant to various large companies and NGOs and has teaching experience. Diego graduated with a degree in psychology from Universidad John F. Kennedy and holds a postgraduate degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Karina Montiel is our Vice President of Supply Chain. She joined Arcos Dorados in 1996 as an administrative assistant while she completed her university studies. Since then, she began a path of constant growth within the Company, beginning with various positions within the finance department. In 2014, Karina took on a new role when she became Managing Director for the Uruguay market and, four years later, she became Finance Director for the Brazil Division. She has been recognized for her achievements and commitment to Arcos Dorados as a President’s Award recipient in 2012 and, also by McDonald’s Corporation’s Global Women’s Leadership Network in 2018. She holds a degree in accounting from the Universidad de la República de Uruguay and a Senior MBA from the IEEM of the Universidad de Montevideo.

Magdalena Gonzalez Victorica is our Chief Technology Officer, having been appointed to this position in October 2021. She joined the Company’s Finance Department in Argentina in September 1999 and, after the formation of Arcos Dorados, she was involved in implementing and/or leading information technology projects in Mexico and Puerto Rico as well as establishing and then leading the Company’s Shared Services Center. In January 2011, she assumed the position of Business Services Director, responsible for Technology, Projects and the Shared Services Center. She was later appointed to lead the Company’s Experience of the Future (EOTF) restaurant modernization initiative, with the first EOTF restaurant opening at the end of 2016. Beginning in 2019, she became responsible for the Digital Factory “ADvance”, which was created to accelerate the Company’s digital transformation. Magdalena holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the Universidad Católica Argentina.

Santiago Blanco, assumed the position of Chief Marketing & Digital Officer in March 2019, reaching Arcos Dorados after a successful professional career, primarily at the Coca-Cola Company, where he held positions within the Marketing and Operations areas in Mexico, United States, Japan and South America. He then continued his career in other industries and for the past two years he has served as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Alsea, a multi-brand restaurant and cafeteria operating company. Santiago holds a degree in Marketing from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MBA from the University of Texas – Austin.

Sebastian Magnasco is our Vice President of Development and served, prior to his appointment as such, in the same capacity in SLAD. He graduated with a degree in Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico Buenos Aires, in 1990.
He began his career at McDonald’s in 1994 and held the positions of Real Estate & Equipment Director of Argentina and IT, Real Estate and Equipment Director of Argentina until his appointment as Vice President of Development of SLAD in 2005.

Gabriel Serber is our Director of Social Impact and Sustainable Development. He started his career in 1990 as a crew member in one of our restaurants in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He rose through the operation’s ranks until 2002, where he moved to McDonald’s Global Headquarters in Chicago to work as an operations manager, among other roles. He continued his tenure in Europe, based in Paris where he was responsible for leading the deployment of several operational programs in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Switzerland, Morocco and Greece. In 2008 he returned to Argentina in the role of Corporate Director of Operations Development. In 2013 he was transferred to Puerto Rico, where he was promoted to Managing Director for the Caribbean Region. In 2017 he returned once again to Argentina as Managing Director for that market. Finally in 2019 he assumed the leadership of our Social Impact and Sustainable Development team, where he oversees all ESG matters for Arcos Dorados. He is a business graduate from Universidad Nacional de San Martin and has completed post graduate studies at the IAE Business School.