Big fish: RGV Startup Week lands Vicente Fox as keynote

Big fish: RGV Startup Week lands Vicente Fox as keynote

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox will be the keynote speaker for the second annual RGV Startup Week, which takes place April 25 through May 2. Nathan Burkhart, vice president for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, announced the news at a downtown news conference on Thursday. Fox, who served as Coca-Cola’s chief executive in Mexico and then head of the company’s Latin American operations bef…

Vicente Fox to speak in Brownsville as part of RGV StartUp Week – Rio Grande Guardian

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Vicente Fox Quesada, one of Mexico’s former presidents, is coming to Brownsville. The 82-year-lld businessman and politician, who served as the 62nd head of state from 2000 to 2006, ran as a candidate for the National Action Party, or PAN. He was preceded as president by Ernesto Zedillo, of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI, and succeeded by Felipe Calderon, also from PAN. Fox will be the keynote speaker of the s…