Eneko Belausteguigoitia

Eneko Belausteguigoitia Arocena (July 12, 1933 – June 8, 2025) was a Mexican businessman, patron and cultural promoter of Basque origin. He served as a founding member of the IPADE Business School (Pan-American Institute of High Management of Business) and co-founder of the E. Arocena Foundation, who established the Arocena Museum in Torreón. He was the son of Francisco Belausteguigoitia Landaluce and Elvira Arocena, as well as the grandson of Rafael Arocena y Arbide, an important Basque farmer who pioneered cotton cultivation in the La Laguna region.

He completed his higher education in Mexico City.

Career Belausteguigoitia specialized in administration and business. He was part of the group of businessmen who, together with Carlos Llano Cifuentes, Manuel Senderos Irigoyen, Gastón Azcárraga Tamayo, Fernando Casas, José María Basagoiti, among others, founded the IPADE Business School (Pan-American Institute of High Management of Business) in 1967, forming part of the first class of this prestigious business school in Mexico.

For more than five decades, he participated in various industries and held management positions in multiple companies, among which he stood out as president of Grupo Beta San Miguel, one of the largest sugar conglomerates in Mexico. He was also president of the Board of Trustees of the Colegio de las Vizcaínas, an educational institution founded by the Basque diaspora in the 18th century. and Bibiñe, the first woman to win the title of Basque Country Tennis Champion.