By Carola Rico
José Benigno is a born leader who has promoted and supported the business sector of San Miguel de Allende, a heritage city, mainly small and medium-sized companies. His work on the move has earned him recognition as an exemplary leader and philanthropist. He is always concerned about the success and results of new and existing businesses.
In times of pandemic, Benigno supported small and medium-sized businesses, and in all the media of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial de San Miguel, A.C., (CCE) of San Miguel. He promoted the businesses, products, and services of the city, in order to spread the culture of local consumption and not to leave the small businesses alone. Benigno is a family man and a lover of reading.
He has been the manager and coordinator of the work-tables with the State Public Security, where he has also promoted strategies to maintain surveillance on the highways leading to San Miguel. Thanks to this leadership, state security courses have been given to companies of all industries in San Miguel.
He proposed the confederation of the CCE between Comonfort, Dolores Hidalgo, and San Miguel, where a twinning agreement was signed in which joint proposals are made for the security and tourist promotion of this region.
Through the different municipal governments, regardless of the political party, he has coordinated job fairs in collaboration with the Secretary of Economic Development of the State.
Benigno is a lawyer by profession with emphasis in the business field, having a Master’s Degree in Administration and Public Policy. He is President of the Board of Directors and organization (Grupo Jobeni) where he has promoted important developments in San Miguel through multiple integral projects such as the La Casona Convention Center.
His academic training took place at Westhill University, the Monterrey Institute of Technology, the JFK School of Government at Harvard University, and the Catholic University of Chile Law School. He is a graduate of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica A.C. (CIDE.º1).
He chairs the CCE from where he promotes free markets, full democracy, social responsibility, and equal opportunities for the population.
In 2010, he founded—and since that year has presided over—the San Miguel de Allende Youth Foundation, focused on supporting vulnerable areas in the municipality, through food programs to eradicate child malnutrition in rural communities for children under 12 years of age.
For Benigno, training at all levels is fundamental even for life, because for this business leader «Man never stops learning,» that is why together with the State Training Institute of the State, agreements have been made to provide courses and workshops at the La Casona Convention Center.
