▷ Biography of Patricia Armendáriz ◁ Age, height, husband, daughters, Shark Tank

Who is Patricia Armendariz?

Patricia Armendáriz Guerra , better known as Patricia Armendáriz, is a businesswoman and economist who became very famous in 2017 after appearing on the television program Shark Tank Mexico. Patricia Armendáriz was born on July 14, 1955 in Comitán de Domínguez Chiapas and is currently considered one of the most important bankers and business advisors in all of Mexico.

Biography of Patricia Armendariz

Beginnings in the life of Patricia Armendáriz

Patricia Armendáriz was born on July 14, 1955 in a small town in Chiapas called Comitán. Because she lived in poverty, she commented that she even had to go barefoot to school, for which she suffered discrimination and buying. When she was going to study high school she had to move to San Cristóbal de Las Casas where she also studied high school and years later she moved to Mexico City with the intention of entering the highest house of studies.

The hour also famous television star Patricia Armendáriz began her career in the business and economic world when she chose to study the career of Actuary at the National Autonomous University of Mexico but after completing her professional studies she not only stayed with that and studied a master’s degree in Development Economics from the University of Cambridge, England and later a PhD in Employment Economics from Columbia University .

Currently, in addition to being a successful businesswoman and businesswoman, Patricia Armendáriz became a star of Mexican television and entertainment without having thought or imagined it after having participated in the successful series Shark Tank Mexico , but although many people only You know from that show, Patricia Armendáriz has really stood out in the business world.

Trajectory and history of Patricia Armendáriz

The first important projects and jobs where Patricia Armendáriz began to work were as an advisor to Pedro Aspe, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit during the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and was a key player in the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on financial services.

In a very short time , Patricia Armendáriz began to demonstrate great leadership skills, so it was not uncommon for anyone to become the first woman president of the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) in 1994, where she held office for almost a decade, then she held the position of director of Banorte for four years starting in 2001 and ending in 2005; After that, she began to give conferences thanks to her extensive experience and knowledge in the matter, taking up topics of interest such as the economy and business entrepreneurship.

In 1999, the then president of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, called Patricia Armendáriz to ask her to leave Mexico, as he warned her that they would accuse her of the Banking Fund for Savings Protection (Fobaproa). “He told me ‘they are going to accuse you of Fobaproa, because you were the one who intervened banks, the one who closed banks, get out of Mexico.’ my job, which was to put the banking system back together,” he declared for El Economista.

Then Patricia Armendáriz  tried her luck abroad and became associate director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). “There I was negotiating with big bankers, I negotiated the Basel Treaty, I was the only woman and from the third world, and they turned to me like ‘what is this lady doing in the Basel Committee,’ and it was where they realized that she could help them to see if Basel worked in countries with low-end, underdeveloped financial statements, and I learned how to navigate between them.”

In 2006  Patricia Armendáriz became a businesswoman creating a company that would help finance and financially support entrepreneurs as well as small and medium-sized companies, later she became a priority shareholder, founder and director of Financiera Sustentable, a Popular Financial Society that grants loans to micro-entrepreneurs that support the environment and the base of the Mexican pyramid.

In June 2016, one of the most successful programs on pay television began and despite the arrival of new technologies, it managed to establish itself as a show with very good audience levels, Shark Tank: Negociando con tiburones , which had its first season completely recorded in Mexico.

In the Shark Tank program , different entrepreneurs appear before a panel of investors or sharks (as they are called) with the intention of selling them their idea for which they need a little economic investment to make their projects gain strength and succeed in their business but first they have to negotiate with the sharks because sometimes they ask for something in exchange for investing their capital. Although initially Shark Tank Mexico was only broadcast on the Sony channel, in 2019 it began to be broadcast on open television thanks to the Image channel.

Throughout the different seasons of Shark Tank Mexico , the panel has been made up of different ” sharks ” such as Rodrigo Herrera Aspra , Carlos Bremer , Arturo Elías Ayub who have been part of the project since the first season, but some others such as Patricia Armendáriz , Marcus Dantus and Luis Harvey have been on different seasons and not always coming back for another one.

Every success brings great detractors and recently the acclaimed magazine Proceso made a report in which it exposed a possible fraud on Shark Tank Mexico , considering it a program full of lies, since they assured that several of the “winners” after finishing the recording of his chapter were waiting for the economic resources and the promised contacts; while defaulting tycoons enhanced their image to make themselves known as true philanthropists.

In addition, the same magazine managed to contact many of the participants who in the program had managed to gain the acceptance of the famous “sharks” and get their supposed financial support, but after the program they did not hear from them again or they were long-suffering and finally the entrepreneurs they got tired of waiting and gave up waiting for the promised support. On the other hand, according to an investigation by the producer of a podcast in the United States, Tj Hale, indicated that up to two-thirds of Shark Tank winners never receive the resources promised to them before the cameras.

At the end of 2019, the prominent businesswoman Patricia Armendáriz drew a lot of attention after she declared that in the 2006 elections she voted for Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and that she considered that he had been a “super honest” president who loved his country very much and that everything he did, he did well . “I voted for him, I voted for Felipe Calderón ,” Armendáriz said without hesitation, and then a wave of criticism rained down on her after speaking out in favor of what many considered one of the most corrupt presidents in the country.

But curiously, by 2020, she was in favor of the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and as if that were not enough, she became the only Mexican businesswoman who accompanied Andrés Manuel López Obrador at dinner with Donald Trump at the White House. Patricia Armendáriz recently became a columnist and editor for the newspaper Milenio .

How much is the fortune of Patricia Armendáriz?

This is one of the questions that people ask themselves the most about Patricia Armendáriz and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Patricia Armendáriz within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent they have and what they have done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Patricia Armendáriz will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around her, so we invite you to stay on our page for the next updates that we will have in life, career, history and biography of Patricia Armendáriz.