Eugenio Garza Sada
Eugenio Garza Sada (January 11, 1892 – September 17, 1973) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist of Jewish descent who is best known for founding the ITESM in 1943.
Garza Sada studied civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1917 and returning to Mexico, where he began working at the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, a major beer producer in Monterrey founded by Garza Sada's father (Isaac Garza Garza) and his uncle. In the following years, he started a number of businesses, including a glass company, which later become Vitro. In 1943, along with a number of other prominent businessmen, Garza Sada founded ITESM, that is, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, with the hope of producing a university with strong principles and high academic performance.
He died during a failed kidnapping attempt, leaving his wife and eight children. Today, he is recognized as a renown and visionary person with strong principles and social conscience in Monterrey, and the major street that passes by the university he founded, ITESM or Monterrey Tech, bears his name.