Eduardo Maruri
Encyclopedia
Eduardo Maruri Miranda (b. September 6, 1966, Guayaquil
, Ecuador
) is an entrepreneur
and politician
.
Eduardo Maruri earned a Bachelor of Business Administration
(BBA) degree from Eastern Michigan University
in 1986 and a Certificate in Communication
s degree from Harvard University
in 1989.
In 1992 he and his father Jimmy Maruri, former President of McCann Erickson
Ecuador, founded Maruri Publicidad, an advertising agency
in Ecuador
, affiliated with the WPP Group
. Maruri also founded DM3, a sports marketing
company specializing in planning and marketing sports events such as the Guayaquil Marathon
.
In May 2004, aged 37, he won the elections of President of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce
(http://www.lacamara.org) with 40% of the votes. In 2006 he was elected President of the Ecuadorian Federation
of Chambers of Commerce until February 2007.
He is responsible for the visits of the following personalities to Ecuador: President Bill Clinton
, George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev
, José María Aznar
, Vice President Al Gore
, Anna Kournikova
, Rigoberta Menchú
, among others.
He is the president of UNO, A New Option
, a private non-profit organization
and political party
. On September 30, 2007 Maruri was elected Assembly Member for the Guayas Province
for the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly
.
Eduardo Maruri has been recognized as one of the most successful young professionals in Ecuador
. Leaders magazine included him among the six most respected non-Ecuadorian businesspeople
.
Latin Finance magazine cited him as one of the 25 people, and the only Ecuadorian on the list, in Latin America
ready to assume important positions of great influence over the next ten years.
soccer team from Guayaquil for the 2007-2011 period. In the 2008 season Maruri led the team to a 5th place in the Ecuadorian Serie A. In the 2009 season was the worst of all, lots of wrong decisions and lack of leadership from Maruri, Barcelona barely escaped a relegation to the Ecuadorian Serie B, which would have been the clubs first relegation in history. In the 2010 season, Maruri led the team to a berth in Copa Sudamericana
, but where eliminated in the second round and a 4th overall in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
Do to the lack of a Ecuadorian Serie A title and after Maruri announced Barcelona's total debt of more than 17 million, fans started to create Facebook, twitter pages and writing banners with "LARGATE MARURI"(English:Leave Maruri) and bringing it to Barcelona's home stadium, Estadio Monumental
. In December 22, 2010 Maruri resigned the presidency of Barcelona after a surprise press conference along side his family and fellow friends. Maruri stated that he was leaving Barcelona do to "Family issues", then Maruri started crying and said,"We were born to be champions, I'm not the man who abandons his ship in a horrible thunderstorm and is about to be sunken underwater, I know better days will come for Barcelona". He is widely considered the worst president of BSC's history. He has a lot of nicknames such as MR.GEL, MIERDURI and NAUFRAGO LLORON. His political career is done because of his failure on Barcelona Sporting Club.
has. On January 31, 2011 he spoke with Radio Tarqui and denies any accusations of corruption during his term as president.
On August 16, 2011, the new president of Barcelona, Antonio Noboa announced the hiring of PKF
, which is a firm of auditors that will do a Forensic audit
on Maruri and Harb's term as president.
Guayaquil
Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
) is an entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
.
Eduardo Maruri earned a Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in Commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below...
(BBA) degree from Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
in 1986 and a Certificate in Communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
s degree from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
in 1989.
In 1992 he and his father Jimmy Maruri, former President of McCann Erickson
McCann Erickson
McCann Erickson is a global advertising agency network, with offices in more than 130 countries. McCann is a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group of Companies, one of the four large holding companies in the advertising industry....
Ecuador, founded Maruri Publicidad, an advertising agency
Advertising agency
An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
in Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, affiliated with the WPP Group
WPP Group
WPP plc is a global media communications services company with its main management office in London, United Kingdom and its executive office in Dublin, Ireland. It is the world's largest advertising group by revenues, and employs over 150,000 people in 2,400 offices in 107 countries...
. Maruri also founded DM3, a sports marketing
Sports marketing
Sport marketing is divided into three sectors. The first is the advertising of sport and sports associations such as the Olympics, Spanish Football league and the NFL. The second concerns the use of sporting events, sporting teams and individual athletes to promote various products. The third is...
company specializing in planning and marketing sports events such as the Guayaquil Marathon
Guayaquil Marathon
The or Maratón de Guayaquil, is an annual marathon road race which takes place in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the first Sunday of October.The race, which was first held in 2005, draws a 1000 participants mostly from Ecuador, some runners from Colombia, Peru and Venezuela run every year.The winners of...
.
In May 2004, aged 37, he won the elections of President of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community...
(http://www.lacamara.org) with 40% of the votes. In 2006 he was elected President of the Ecuadorian Federation
Federation
A federation , also known as a federal state, is a type of sovereign state characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government...
of Chambers of Commerce until February 2007.
He is responsible for the visits of the following personalities to Ecuador: President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
, José María Aznar
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...
, Vice President Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
, Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
, Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the K'iche' ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War , and to promoting indigenous rights in the country...
, among others.
He is the president of UNO, A New Option
A New Option
A New Option A New Option A New Option (Spanish: Una Nueva Opción; UNO is a non-profit organization from Ecuador which trains future political leaders.It was founded by Eduardo Maruri , a well known business man from Guayaquil, former president of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce and the...
, a private non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
and political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
. On September 30, 2007 Maruri was elected Assembly Member for the Guayas Province
Guayas Province
Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean ; to the east by Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos and Bolívar; and to the south by El Oro and the Pacific Ocean.With a population of over 3...
for the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly
Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly
The Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly was a 2007-2008 constitutional assembly in Ecuador, which drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008....
.
Eduardo Maruri has been recognized as one of the most successful young professionals in Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
. Leaders magazine included him among the six most respected non-Ecuadorian businesspeople
Businessperson
A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...
.
Latin Finance magazine cited him as one of the 25 people, and the only Ecuadorian on the list, in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
ready to assume important positions of great influence over the next ten years.
Barcelona Sporting Club
He was elected President of the Barcelona Sporting ClubBarcelona Sporting Club
Barcelona Sporting Club is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil, known best for its professional football team. They currently play in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of football in the country, and hold the distinction of being the only team to have never been relegated.With...
soccer team from Guayaquil for the 2007-2011 period. In the 2008 season Maruri led the team to a 5th place in the Ecuadorian Serie A. In the 2009 season was the worst of all, lots of wrong decisions and lack of leadership from Maruri, Barcelona barely escaped a relegation to the Ecuadorian Serie B, which would have been the clubs first relegation in history. In the 2010 season, Maruri led the team to a berth in Copa Sudamericana
2010 Copa Sudamericana
The 2010 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes was the 9th edition of CONMEBOL's secondary international club tournament. The winner qualified for the 2011 Copa Libertadores, the 2011 Recopa Sudamericana, and the 2011 Suruga Bank Championship...
, but where eliminated in the second round and a 4th overall in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
Do to the lack of a Ecuadorian Serie A title and after Maruri announced Barcelona's total debt of more than 17 million, fans started to create Facebook, twitter pages and writing banners with "LARGATE MARURI"(English:Leave Maruri) and bringing it to Barcelona's home stadium, Estadio Monumental
Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo
The Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo is a football stadium located in the parish of Tarqui in northern Guayaquil, Ecuador. The stadium is the home to Ecuadorian football club Barcelona.-History:The Monumental was born from the initiative of club president Isidro Romero Carbo...
. In December 22, 2010 Maruri resigned the presidency of Barcelona after a surprise press conference along side his family and fellow friends. Maruri stated that he was leaving Barcelona do to "Family issues", then Maruri started crying and said,"We were born to be champions, I'm not the man who abandons his ship in a horrible thunderstorm and is about to be sunken underwater, I know better days will come for Barcelona". He is widely considered the worst president of BSC's history. He has a lot of nicknames such as MR.GEL, MIERDURI and NAUFRAGO LLORON. His political career is done because of his failure on Barcelona Sporting Club.
Accused Of Corruption
During Maruri's term as president, he has been accused of corruption and the responsible of huge debt that BarcelonaBarcelona Sporting Club
Barcelona Sporting Club is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil, known best for its professional football team. They currently play in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of football in the country, and hold the distinction of being the only team to have never been relegated.With...
has. On January 31, 2011 he spoke with Radio Tarqui and denies any accusations of corruption during his term as president.
On August 16, 2011, the new president of Barcelona, Antonio Noboa announced the hiring of PKF
PKF
PKF is a global network of accountancy firms. Member firms operate under the PKF brand in over 125 countries worldwide. In 2010, PKF International was ranked the 10th largest global accounting network, with aggregate fee income of $2.4 billion for member firms in the year end June 2010)...
, which is a firm of auditors that will do a Forensic audit
Forensic accounting
Forensic accounting is the specialty practice area of accountancy that describes engagements that result from actual or anticipated disputes or litigation. "Forensic" means "suitable for use in a court of law", and it is to that standard and potential outcome that forensic accountants generally...
on Maruri and Harb's term as president.
See also
- List of marathoners who are non-running specialists
- List of Ecuadorian Ironman