Fernando Jarquin Pira

In 2016, the company helped rebuild the Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta (Mixed Rural Official School), located in the Chuparral 1 Village, in the department of Chimaltenango. The school was destroyed in 2010 by Tropical Storm Agatha.

Due to the success of the business, in 2015 the company changed its commercial name to K’abel Business Center. Currently, the company services private companies of diverse sectors and industries, and business chambers such as the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).

In 2013, Jarquín opened the Centro de Convenciones K´abel (Kabel, S.A., commercial name “K´abel”), a business-oriented convention center that integrates meeting and conference rooms. Originally, the center hosted mostly medical institutions, physicians and pharmaceutical companies.

In 2002, Jarquín ventured into the wine import and distribution industry after he bought the company La Cofradía de los Vinos, a high end wine distributing company of brands such as Cousiño Macul (Chile), Luigi Bosca, Salentein and Pulenta (Argentina), and Pisco Cuatro Gallos (Peru).

In 1996, Jarquín founded Iberfarma, S.A., his second pharmaceutical company, to distribute pharmaceutical products to private hospitals and drug stores, reaching a different market segment than the recently created AGEFINSA.

In 1995, due to his expertise in the industry, Jarquín founded Agencia Farmacéutica Internacional, S.A. (AGEFINSA), a pharmaceutical distribution company that sells pharmaceutical products in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. AGEFINSA represents several of the largest European pharmaceutical laboratories.

Jarquín began his post-college career in the pharmaceutical industry. He started working for the Swiss company Sandoz-Wander (now known as Novartis Group) in 1987.

Jarquín studied international commerce and marketing at the Universidad Rafael Landívar. During his college years, he worked as a sales representative for several companies in the international commerce space. In 1984, when he was 19 years old, he started to work as a sales representative for Concorde Line, a shipping company.

Fernando Jarquín is the son of Roberto Jarquín Richeme and Isabel Pira Arrivillaga. He spent his childhood between Guatemala City and the city of Técpan, Chimaltenango. His ancestors established themselves in Técpan at the end of the 19th century. In 1983, Jarquín graduated from high school at Marist School Liceo Guatemala, a private Catholic school located in Guatemala City.

Fernando Jarquín Pira (Guatemala City, February 1, 1965) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and leader in the pharmaceutical industry of Central America's northern triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras). Jarquín is a shareholder of Agencia Farmacéutica Internacional, S.A. (AGEFINSA) and Iberfarma, S.A., two of the most important pharmaceutical distributors in Guatemala.