Juan Casillas

Juan Casillas, based in Mexico City, is Monarch’s longest tenured team member having joined our predecessor firm over 20 years ago. He provides consulting services to international corporations regarding their activities in Mexico as well as to Mexican businesses on their operations and initiatives overseas.

Juan is a seasoned participant in the Mexican market who has worked in both Mexico and the United States and has substantial experience in business development, strategic planning and analysis, government and public affairs, and consulting in both countries. Over the past two decades, he has facilitated over $10 billion in foreign investment into Mexico’s economy across various sectors, including among others financial services, manufacturing, infrastructure, automotive, hospitality, pharmaceutical, transportation, security, technology, telecommunications, mining, and energy for which he has supported the establishment of over two gigawatts of sustainable energy capacity in Mexico.

Through his participation and leadership in engineering and business associations, Juan has developed an extensive network in Mexico’s infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, and energy sectors.

Juan chairs the technical committee of the Infrastructure Projects and Studies Financing Fund (FEPI) created jointly by Mexico’s leading construction companies and the Mexican government. In August 2024, he was elected to be one of three members on the Board of Regents of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).

Prior to joining Monarch (then known as ManattJones) in 2003, Juan was the General Manager of STR, a software development company. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Casillas was the Assistant General Director of a hologram manufacturing company in Mexico. Prior to this, he worked at Andersen Consulting in Chicago and at Servicios de Fomento Industrial, a Mexican consulting firm.