Alejandro Silva, chairman and CEO of Evans Food Group, Ltd., was recently elected to Walgreens board of directors as an independent director. He is the first Hispanic to serve on the Walgreens’ board. Walgreens is a Fortune 44 company with over $47 billion dollars in revenues in 2007.
Mr. Silva entered the food business in Mexico in 1972 as operations manager of KIR Alimentos S.A. Seven years later, he founded a business venture, Alimentos Finos del Norte, in Saltillo, Mexico, before acquiring Evans Food Group in 1985 with his brother and another partner. Today, Evans Food Group is the world’s largest pork rind snack manufacturer and the largest Hispanic-owned business in Chicago.
Mr. Silva is a graduate of the 2003 HACR/Harvard Business School Executive Education Program on Corporate Development: Leadership in the Boardroom. He also serves on the boards of directors of PrivateBankcorp, Inc. and the Chicago Transit Authority.
Mr. Silva is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations, and is the recipient of several awards including the Double Eagle Award from the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce; Chicago United Business Leaders of Color member; and the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Enterprises Development Agency Award.
