Mr Olegario
VÁZQUEZ RAÑA

Business administration

President and founder of Grupo Empresarial Angeles, which employs 30,000 people and includes Health Services - 32 Hospitales Angeles nationwide, Tourism, 40 Camino Real Hotels in Mexico & the USA, Finance - Grupo Financiero Multiva, which holds a bank, an insurance company, a brokerage house and a new national television network named Imagen, Media - Grupo Imagen, a multimedia company that holds national newspaper Excelsior, a radio stations network with 70 affiliates and national TV network Cadena Tres; President of the Mexican Red Cross (2001-2006)

Shooting, tennis

Broke his own world record in Air Rifle (393 points) at the 1975 Pan-American Games in Mexico; participated in four editions of the Games of the Olympiad : Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, Munich 1972, Montréal 1976

Member (1975-1992) then Lifelong Honorary President (1992-) of Mexico’s Shooting Federation; Vice-President of the Mexican Sports Confederation (1983-1992); Permanent Member of the Mexican National Olympic Committee (1969-); President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) (1980-); President (1979-2010) then Honorary President (2010-) of the Shooting Confederation of the Americas

Doctor Honoris Causa of La Salle University; the Great Cross of Civil Merit from the Spanish Government; Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from the Kyungnam University (Republic of Korea); National Sports Award (Mexico); Olympic Order (1986); "Grande Médaille, échellon vermeille" by the city of Paris (France); Blue Cross from the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF); Mexican Athlete of the XX century by the National Sports Commission and the Ministry of Education (Mexico) (2000); Businessman of the Year in the Tourism sector (Mexico) (2012)

Member of the IOC from 1995 to 2015; Honorary Member since 2016; Member of the following Commissions: Olympic Solidarity (1988-1998), Enquiry for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000 (1993), Marketing (1994-), “IOC 2000” (1999), Olympic Channel (2015-2016)