Founder Alvaro Barranco
Founder Alvaro Barranco
From the streets, to the shelf, to the boardroom.
The Team · The Alvaro Advantage
ALVE Group was founded by Alvaro Barranco, a cultural growth strategist with two decades of brand leadership across the U.S. Hispanic and multicultural market.
His career spans direct roles at Beam Suntory and MillerCoors, brand work on Pernod Ricard names like Absolut and Jameson through Legacy Marketing Partners, and field leadership with Omnicom, across Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Courvoisier, Hornitos Tequila, Coors Light, and Blue Moon in California, Nevada, Texas, and key national markets.
He has lived the full channel: from the shelf in independent Hispanic grocery chains like Vallarta and El Super, to the floor in restaurants, bars, and festivals, to the boardroom. He sat in the middle, between the brand, the distributor, the retailer, and the community, and translated between all of them.
Gets to the root of business problems by asking why, and never shies from the extra research to do right by the brand.
Deeply versed in high-yield, inclusive marketing, with real relationships across Hispanic retail and on-premise.
An entrepreneurial approach and out-of-the-box ideas that move product where generic campaigns cannot.
Professional, detail-oriented, known for executional excellence and thorough post-activation recaps.