Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez (born 5 October 1965) is a Venezuelan billionaire businessman, and CEO of Empresas Polar, Venezuela's largest privately held company, with $7 billion in annual sales.

He is a former Member of the Boards of AES La Electricidad de Caracas, CANTV-Verizon, and BBVA Banco Provincial.

[citation needed] Along with his family, Lorenzo supports one of Venezuela's largest charities, Fundacion Polar.

[5] On June 8, 2018, Lorenzo Mendoza was invited to an MBA convocation in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to speak about resilience in the business world, regarding the Venezuelan crisis.

The company ("Empresas Polar") is one of Venezuela's major employers and is seen as a symbol of resilience in a country rocked by political and economic turmoil.