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Leonor Giménez de Mendoza | |
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| Born | Barquisimeto,Lara, Venezuela |
| Occupation(s) | Businesswoman, philanthropist |
Leonor Giménez de Mendoza is a Venezuelan businesswoman andphilanthropist.[1] She was the president ofEmpresas Polar for five years and is president and founder of the Empresas Polar Foundation.[1]
Leonor Giménez was born inBarquisimeto,Lara State. She was educated at the Colegio María Auxiliadora in the same city. She spent a year inMontreal to improve her English. In 1956, after the death of her father, she travelled to Madrid with her mother. There she metLorenzo A. Mendoza Quintero.[2] In 1959 they married in Caracas where they established their residence and had six children: Elisa, Leonor, Isabel,Lorenzo, Patricia and Juan Simon.[2] In 1976, she joined her husband in the leadership ofEmpresas Polar. Together, in 1977, they created the Empresas Polar Foundation.[3] Later, after her husband's death in 1987, she led the company for five years and was a member of its board of directors.[1]
She was also president of the Asociación de Damas Salesianas and member of the board of directors of the Centro de Atención Nutricional Infantil Antímano (CANIA), a non-profit institution created byCervecería Polar in 1995.[4]