Janny Garcia
Daughter of Jose Pepin Garcia and the executive running My Father Cigars, one of the few women leading a major premium cigar manufacturer.
Janny Garcia was part of the family operation from its Miami beginnings in 2003 and has taken increasing responsibility for the commercial and operational side of My Father Cigars as it grew from a rolling workshop into a large Esteli factory with its own farms. She is among the small number of women in senior executive positions at a major premium cigar manufacturer, in an industry where women make up much of the factory workforce but little of its leadership.
Her role spans production planning, quality control and the company's dealings with the American distribution network, while her brother Jaime leads blending and her father remains involved in the technical side. The company's expansion into contract manufacture for Ashton and Tatuaje has been managed within that structure. Contract manufacture requires managing separate blends, packaging and release schedules for clients alongside the company's own lines.
Public biographical detail about her, including her birth year and the formal title she holds, is limited and inconsistently reported, so this record is confined to what is reliably documented about her position in the business. The record is included because the executive layer of the industry is thinly documented compared with its blenders, and knowing who runs a factory is often as useful as knowing who blends for it.