About Manny Portuondo is a global Management Consulting executive and entrepreneur with a track record of delivering impressive contributions to business growth and profit. Portuondo’s successful career has encompassed both executive leadership positions in large multi-national corporations, as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies. Since his position as Vice President Franchising & Business Development at Burger King Corp., he has been engaged in strategic management consulting throughout the globe, advising clients on M&A transactions and strategic franchising initiatives. Whether for global brands or entrepreneurial companies, Portuondo’s career has been distinguished by developing and executing innovative strategies, leading business turnarounds, identifying and closing M&A transactions and delivering strong financial returns for stakeholders. Portuondo is comfortable operating in new geographies and cultures and his success has been rewarded with promotions of progressively increasing responsibilities at corporate headquarters, country management, marketing, sales and finance. Many of his appointments were with organizations where executive management/ownership saw the need for rapid change and sought significantly improved performance.

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Manny Portuondo Bio
About
Manny Portuondo is a global Management Consulting executive and
entrepreneur with a track record of delivering impressive contributions to
business growth and profit. Portuondo’s successful career has encompassed
both executive leadership positions in large multi-national corporations, as
well as smaller entrepreneurial companies. Since his position as Vice
President Franchising & Business Development at Burger King Corp., he
has been engaged in strategic management consulting throughout the
globe, advising clients on M&A transactions and strategic franchising
initiatives. Whether for global brands or entrepreneurial companies,
Portuondo’s career has been distinguished by developing and executing
innovative strategies, leading business turnarounds, identifying and closing
M&A transactions and delivering strong financial returns for stakeholders.
Portuondo is comfortable operating in new geographies and cultures and
his success has been rewarded with promotions of progressively increasing
responsibilities at corporate headquarters, country management,
marketing, sales and finance. Many of his appointments were with
organizations where executive management/ownership saw the need for
rapid change and sought significantly improved performance.

2. Experience
Since his position as Vice President Franchising & Business Development at
Burger King Corp., he founded DeepBlue LLC, a boutique M&A and
franchise advisory practice engaged in strategic management consulting
throughout the globe. He has advised clients on M&A transactions and
strategic franchising and development initiatives. In his position at Burger
King, Portuondo created an $80 million brand re-image incentive program,
and a $250 million franchisee lending program, the largest and most
innovative brand re-image and lending program in the QSR industry. The
program resulted in 1,017 restaurant re-image commitments in just one
year, a six fold increase versus the prior year. Due to the rapidly changing
and competitive QSR landscape, Portuondo led Burger King in focusing on
creating consolidation strategies for new and existing franchisees through
strategic market planning, growth incentives, portfolio management and
divestitures of over 700 company restaurants. During his six-year tenure at
Burger King his strategies led to the growth of the average number of
restaurants per franchisee to eight from five units, a growth of 60%, as well
as, record re-imaging and new restaurant development commitments.
Furthermore, Portuondo fostered a customer centric philosophy and key
account management system to improve relationships with franchisees and
drive results. The foundation of Portuondo’s business success commenced
at Anheuser Busch, Inc., where he started as an intern in the company’s
executive leadership development program. He was one of only twelve MBA
candidates chosen by the company each year, to participate in its highly
coveted program. While at Anheuser-Busch, Portuondo led field sales and
marketing programs in multiple markets. Further, he was promoted to a
key role to manage the Caribbean & Latin America business, which at the
time was the company’s largest market outside of the Continental US with
over $250 million in revenue and $40 million in EBITDA. Portuondo also
has an entrepreneurial pedigree. As prior President of his family’s Cuban
beer company, La Tropical, Portuondo developed a worldwide trademark
consolidation and licensing strategy to regain control of the La Tropical
brand, a beer brand which had been nationalized by communist Cuba in
1960. He successfully raised angel and private equity capital to re-launch La
Tropical in key markets in anticipation of the opening of the Cuban market.

3. His success was featured in a “Forbes Magazine” article in 1999,
www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0208/6303080a.html.
Education
Portuondo was born in the US, however has lived and traveled throughout
the world, principally in Latin America & the Caribbean. He earned his
MBA at the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International
University (FIU) in 1990 and earlier his BBA in 1988 also from FIU.
Portuondo in his free time enjoys boating, free diving and spear fishing,
running, reading and traveling with his family.