ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ BARRERA, 74
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Elected April 1994 (shareholder, related, 1)

GRUMA’s founder, chairman, and CEO; and chairman of the board of directors of Grupo Financiero Banorte; founder and president, Patronato para el Fomento Educativo y Asistencial de Cerralvo, president of the Fundación Mexicana para la Investigación Agropecuaria y Forestal. Alternate: Juan A. Quiroga García

G. ALLEN ANDREAS, 61
Elected September 1996 (shareholder, independent)
Chairman and chief executive, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM); former CFO of European Operations at ADM; VP and counsel to the executive committee of ADM; president and CEO of ADM; director: A.C. Toepfer International, Agricore United; trustee, Economic Club of New York; member, The Trilateral Commission, The Bretton Woods Committee, International Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade; member, The Emergency Committee for American Trade, World
Economic Forum, G100, European Advisory Board of The Carlyle Group, and various other business operations in Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific Region

JUAN ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ MORENO, 47
Elected April 2003 (shareholder, related)
Gruma Corporation’s special projects president; chairman and president of Car Amigo USA, Inc.; former vice president of central and eastern regions of Mission Foods; former vice president of sales and president of Azteca Milling, L.P.; former GIMSA chief operating officer. Alternate: Jairo Senise

ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ MORENO, 52
Elected April 1994 (shareholder, related)
Chairman and president, Corporación Noble; former chief operating officer of GIMSA and GRUMA’s former food division; director: Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A., and GIMSA. Alternate: José de la Peña Angelini

CARLOS HANK RHON, 57
Elected April 1994 (related)
Chairman and CEO, Grupo Hermes; chairman and principal shareholder, Grupo Financiero Interacciones; chairman, Grupo Coin/La Nacional; director, Grupo Tribasa. Alternate: Edgar Valverde Rubizewsky

ROBERTO HERNÁNDEZ RAMÍREZ, 63
Elected April 1994 (independent)
Chairman, Banco Nacional de México; member, International Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; former CEO, Banco Nacional de México; chairman and director, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores; chairman, Mexican Banking Association; chairman, Acciones y Valores; director, Grupo Financiero Banamex, Televisa. Alternate: Esteban Malpica Fomperosa

JUAN MANUEL LEY LÓPEZ, 72
Elected April 1994 (independent)
Chairman and CEO, Grupo Ley; chairman, Latin American Association of Supermarkets; chairman, Sinaloa-Baja California Consultant Council of Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival, National Association of Supermarket and Retail Stores; director, Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival, Telmex. Alternate: Francisco Villarreal Vizcaíno

EDUARDO LIVAS CANTÚ, 62
Elected April 1994 (independent, 2)
Independent business consultant; former CEO, GRUMA and GIMSA (1994–1999); director, Grupo Financiero Banorte, GIMSA. Alternate: Alfredo Livas Cantú

ROMAN MARTÍNEZ MÉNDEZ, 67
Elected April 2002 (related, 2)
President of internal auditing, Grupo Financiero Banorte; former president, GRUMA controllership and auditing; director, GIMSA, Grupo Calíder. Alternate: Raúl Cavazos Morales

PAUL B. MULHOLLEM, 55
Elected April 2002 (shareholder, independent)
President and chief operating officer, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM); director, Agricore United, A.C. Toepfer International, National Future Farmers of America; member, the Carle Foundation. Alternate: Douglas J. Schmalz

BERNARDO QUINTANA ISAAC, 63
Elected April 1995 (independent)
Chairman, Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora; director: Telmex, CEMEX, Grupo Carso, and others; former executive vice president, ICA; former vice president, ICA Turismo y Desarrollo Urbano. Alternate: Diego Quintana Kawage

ALFONSO ROMO GARZA, 54
Elected April 1994 (independent)
Founder, chairman, and CEO, Savia and Séminis; director, CEMEX, Nacional de Drogas, Grupo Comercial Chedraui, World Bank External Advisory Board for Latin America and the Caribbean, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and others. Alternate: Adrián Rodríguez Macedo

ADRIÁN SADA GONZÁLEZ, 59
Elected April 1994 (independent)
Chairman, Vitro; former CEO, Banpais; former chairman, Grupo Financiero Serfin; director: Alfa, Cydsa, Regio Empresas, Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios, Grupo de Industriales de Nuevo León. Alternate: Manuel Güemez de la Vega

JAVIER VÉLEZ BAUTISTA, 47
Elected April 2002 (independent, 2)
CEO, Nacional Monte de Piedad; former business consultant on strategic and financial issues; former EVP and CFO, GRUMA, former chief financial and planning officer, Gruma Corporation; project director, Booz Allen Hamilton; director, GIMSA; alternate director, Grupo Financiero Banorte. Alternate: Sergio García Bullé

SECRETARY
SALVADOR VARGAS GUAJARDO
EXAMINER
HUGO LARA SILVA

(1) Director classifications are defined in the Code of Best Corporate Practices promulgated by a committee
formed by the Mexican Entrepreneur Coordinating Board (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial).
(2) GRUMA Audit Committee Member.

Roberto González Barrera
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Rafael Abreu
President, Gruma Centroamérica

José de la Peña
President, Gruma Latin America

Leonel Garza
Chief Procurement Officer

Roberto González
President, Gruma México

Homero Huerta
Chief Administrative Officer

Enrique Orjuela
President, MONACA

Raúl Peláez
Chief Financial Officer

Juan Quiroga
Chief Corporate Officer

Felipe Rubio
Chief Technology Officer

Eduardo Sastré
President, Corporate Communications

Jairo Senise
President and CEO, Gruma Corporation

Salvador Vargas
General Counsel

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