Fernando Aguiluz

Fernando Aguiluz has been Director of Commercial Operations for General Cable Corporation since June 2009. In October 2009, he was also named Director, Export Sales. In this role, he is responsible for managing the North American export sales, as well as to enable the growth of inter-company transactions throughout the corporation with an emphasis on North American products into other regions of the world. Prior to this, he was the Marketing & Sales Manager since July 2005 for Central America & Caribbean of our subsidiary company, Phelps Dodge International Corporation (PDIC), where he had leadership responsibility to grow PDIC’s sales in these regions and open new markets by establishing new channels of distribution, and identifying and developing new business opportunities.

Aguiluz joined PDIC in 1996 and has worked in a number of commercial management positions in Honduras and Costa Rica. Prior to joining PDIC, he held engineering and technical management positions with Kodak, Mosler and Power Utility Companies in Central America.

Aguiluz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras and has a Master’s degree in Finance from the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana de Honduras. He has also completed the Global Management Program at Thunderbird University and the Kellogg “On Marketing” Program at Northwestern University.

General Cable (NYSE: BGC), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy infrastructure, construction, retail, telecommunications and OEM markets. With annual revenues approaching $6 billion, General Cable is one of the largest wire and cable manufacturing companies in the world. It operates 43 manufacturing facilities in 21 countries and employs 12,000 associates.