Presently, Javier Garcia-Teruel Avila is Managing Director at Alta Growth Capital Management Mexico (GP) LLC.

He is also on the board of Starbucks Corp., Nielsen Holdings Plc and The Nielsen Company (US), Inc. and Partner at Spectron Desarrollo SC.

In his past career he held the position of Vice Chairman for Colgate-Palmolive Co. Vice President-Body Care at Colgate-Palmolive SA de CV, Chief Growth Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Europe SARL and Vice President for Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. (which are all subsidiaries of Colgate-Palmolive Co.).