Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez) (born November 4, 1953) served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company.

Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. Gutierrez's circuitous path from Havana to the corner office at Kellogg's headquarters in Battle Creek, Mich., began in 1960, just shy of his seventh birthday, with an ominous knock at the door. Fidel Castro's regime had deemed Carlos's father, a successful pineapple merchant, an enemy of the state. He was held for a day or so and then released. Faced with the expropriation of their property following the Cuban Revolution, his family fled for the United States in 1960 when he was six years old. Like many other Cuban American refugees, they settled in Miami. Gutierrez learned his first words of English from the bellhop at the hotel where they initially stayed and, some years later, he and his family acquired United States citizenship.

The family moved once again — this time to Mexico, where Gutierrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education campus in Querétaro. He joined Kellogg's in 1975 as a sales representative and management trainee. One of his early assignments included driving a delivery-truck route around local stores.