Nicolás García Mayor

Nicolas Garcia Mayor is the Founder and Designer of the Cmax Mobile Units solutions for multipurpose uses as Vaccination Clinic, Shelter, Camping, Industry, Events and beyond. Cmax was created as emergency shelter urbanization system that provides immediate housing for refugees and displaced people. In 2020, more than two in five U.S. hospitals with intensive care units have reached occupancy levels of 85 percent or higher. When bed availability dwindles and hospitals begin to operate in crisis mode, Cmax Med was the best affordable and rapid solution.

In 2014 he was awarded by JCI with Ten Outstanding Young Person of the World TOYP for his contribution to children, world peace and human rights and was invited to present his humanitarian innovation called Cmax System in the 68th the United Nations General Assembly UN, in New York City. He was also invited to Vatican City by Pope Francis, who blessed his project for the humanitarian work refugees. The Government of Argentina honored him with one of the country’s highest awards “Ambassador of Argentina Country Brand” and the Senate of the Argentina Nation bestowed the award for “The Latin America Development Leadership”. In 2016, the US Government gave permanent residency status citing “Extraordinary Ability” and “Brilliant Talent”. As a social entrepreneur, he has given multiple TED (conference) around the globe and has worked as an innovation consultant for international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), the Inter-American Development Bank, universities worldwide, national and local governments and NGOs. Nicolas has been a Jury of Honor of Balseiro Institute and the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina. Garcia Mayor has also consulted as a researcher on humanitarian needs, assessments and mitigation for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina, Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, Nigeria Future Energy Group NIFEG, Salzburg Seminar in Austria. He was also selected by consultant Marcus Evans to join the World Industrial Design Summit in Cannes and Berlin as a consultant to leaders such as BMW, Audi, Coca-Cola, Google and Facebook among other companies.

Nicolás García Mayor (born December 15, 1978) is an Argentine entrepreneur and industrial designer focused in humanitarian development.He is the CEO of Cmax System INC and other Corp's and NGO's. He worked and lived in Europe conducting various architectural and innovation design projects. Since 2000 he has been working as an Industrial Humanitarian Designer, identifying, designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in countries in South America and abroad, including China, Austria, Spain, France, United Arab Emirates.

Nicolas Garcia Mayor was born on December 15, 1978 in Bahia Blanca (south of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina). After obtaining his degree in Computer Technology, he moved to La Plata and graduated in Industrial Design at the National University of La Plata, Faculty of Fine Arts, for a postgraduate later in EcoDesign. In 2000 he founded an industrial design company dedicated to solve design problems and develop new and innovative projects through interdisciplinary methods. As part of his final thesis in 2001, he developed a system of emergency housing shelters for refugees and displaced people by natural disasters and armed conflicts, called the Cmax System. After graduating as an industrial designer in 2003, he moved to Tarragona, Spain where he designed and developed new products and architectural works for different companies and government bodies. He also founded a start-up company called CATARGE with his older brother Sebastian to design homes and commercial construction projects. In 2004, he returned to Argentina and reopened ar estudio, created a new design space and completed work for international companies including Cargill, Petrobras, YPF, Dow Chemical, Government of Portugal, Government of Brasil, and Security Ministries of Buenos Aires, among others. He designed the first criminalistics mobile laboratory to enable the Scientific Police to process crime scenes with equipment on board, among other projects to Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. In 2009, Garcia Mayor was founder and chairman of the Department of Young Entrepreneurs of the Industrial Union of Bahía Blanca, a supportive space for young entrepreneurs in the region. In 2016,in Washington DC, close to the White House, Garcia Mayor opened the headquarters of Cmax System Inc. a [Public Benefit-Corporation] (B CORP) dedicated to building an immediate urbanization for displaced and refugee people. In the same year he started the Cmax Foundation with the focus of donating temporary shelters and rebuilding homes, schools, hospitals, to assist people affected by natural disasters or armed conflicts.