The Convocation that I had attended on March 15th was about Mr. Unanue and what he had gone through in life to be in the position he was in today. Out of the three brothers that now own parts of Goya Foods, Andy Unanue came to tell us his very interesting story. Mr. Unanue is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Goya Foods, which is considered to be one of the largest Hispanic food companies in the United States. He started off with his background and how he was introduced to his grandfather’s company. He grew up in Bogota, New Jersey and was one of six kids in his family. He worked since the 7th grade through high school, and then through college in the Goya foods. After he graduated college, he had moved to Puerto Rico to start working in the largest manufacturing business that was over there. He started off with shaping …show more content…
He started interning for Goya foods in the advertising position and then sales and marketing until he got a hand of how the business was ran. After he learned everything, he was then shipped down to Dominican Republic to be in charge on their operations in the Goya factories down there. He spend three years down there transforming the manufacturing based center and then helped doing the same things in the U.S. After a while he decided that he wanted to go to grad school in Arizona. He didn’t want to go into a family business a much at the time but instead he wanted to invest in family business after grad school as his own equity firm. After his equity firm had been created, he was asked by his family to take over Goya Foods from the second generation and after his brother came back from survey then he would be able to leave and his brother would take over everything. He left the Goya Company in 2004 and launched his own office for what he always had wanted to do. He wanted to invest in family run businesses or even those Hispanic ran