CHATEAUCAMOU.MX - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
Don Chuy, as he's dearly called, has been working at Ch teau Camou since 2001and he truly has enjoyed every moment. He is responsible of the vines and the amazing grapes which make our award-winning wines. He also is the man behind the olive trees - the beautiful olive trees which make an amazing olive oil… An olive oil that has Don Chuy's name on it… "I love my job," he proudly said. "I love the plants; I talk to them… They like it! I love being on the grounds and making sure everything is perfect… When I'm not at work I yearn to return. The land calls me! Ch teau Camou is my second home."
Born in Tuxpan, Jalisco, He move with his family to Mexicali, Baja California, due to his fathers' work. His father helped build the road from Tecate to Mexicali - 'la rumorosa'… At his tender age of 8, his family moved to Valle de Guadalupe, and they've been there ever since. This is now his home, and he loves it. He has 5 kids and 3 grandkids.
We are honored to have Don Chuy work for us, a man who loves his job and assures us of the best possible grapes. Thank you, Don Chuy!
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
- Member of the Rotary Club
True to his family's tradition of community service, Fernando has been an active member of the Rotary Club since 1993 and has served as president of the Ensenada Riviera RC, district governor in 2005-2006, and founding member of the first Spanish-speaking Rotary Club in San Diego County.
Born and raised in Durango, Mexico in 1927… Mr. Favela is considered one of Durango's most prominent citizens. From a very young age, he supports his mother and sisters at the passing of his late father. He moves to Mexico City in 1949 to attend University - in 1953 he graduates from the National School of Engineers at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) with a degree in Civil Engineering. Same university where fifty years later he receives his masters' degree - also in Engineering.
At the tender age of 22; before graduating from University, Mr. Favela starts his brilliant and professional career in one of Mexico's most successful construction companies to this day - Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados (ICA) His first position was overseeing a department and eventually reached the position of Executive Vice President - and pretty much since the start, became the right hand of the company's founder.
Amongst his most important accomplishments are the construction of large hydroelectric infrastructure dams and canals. The construction of the first subway lines in Mexico City, the deep sewage project in Mexico City (where he almost lost his life) and the internalization of the Mexican building technology which transports the company to go into Central and South America to build large construction projects - and he also is responsible for getting the company public and into the Mexican stock exchange.
In 1969, he started teaching in the faculty of Engineering within the Construction department. His goal has always been to form great civil engineers with a specialty in transportation. He was a professor at UNAM University for more than forty years. Within the Engineering faculty, Mr. Favela occupied many positions - he was chief of the section, then of the construction department, president of the commission which defined post graduate degrees as well as a member of the committee of the civil engineering career. He was also a professor in various post graduate construction courses and the division of continuous education.
Fernando was born in Durango, but due to his fathers' work, the family was raised in Mexico City. And it was there where Fernando obtained an undergraduate degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Fernando arrived in Ensenada, Baja California, in August 1980, and obtained a master's degree in science with honorable mention from CICESE (Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada) in 1982. He worked there from 1982 to 1992 in the geophysics department where, among other responsibilities, he designed Mexico City's accelerograph network.
In 1990, during his sabbatical year, he joined Incubadora de Empresas con Base Tecnológica (IEBT) (Technologically Based Business Incubator) as founding technical director and later became the president.
IEBT enabled the creation of more than twenty companies in the technology sector.
In 1992 Fernando decided to become independent and founded TD Manufacturas y Tecnología (TD Manufacturing and Technology) and is still the chairman of the board.
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM
Job Titles:
- Member of the WINERY TEAM