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MEXICO CITY -- Humberto Jasso has resigned as director of heavy and high tech industry at Mexico's ministry of the economy, where he has worked for 19 years.

In a message emailed to friends and colleagues today, the Yale- and Cambridge University-educated Jasso, overseer of Mexico's automotive industry, said he will leave the ministry April 30 "to look for new professional horizons."

He's the third major figure from the Mexican automotive industry to leave his post this year.

In February, members of Mexico's national automotive industry association (AMIA) voted to replace their president, Cesar Flores, 65, with Eduardo Solis, 45, who moved to the association from the economy ministry.

Flores, who had directed the association for all but seven of the previous 27 years, has become an automotive industry consultant.

Earlier this month, Ramon Suarez, 36, left the national automotive parts suppliers association (INA) after a 10-year stint. He spent the first eight years as managing director and the last two as president.

Suarez resigned to accept a job as managing director in Mexico of insurance claims software company Audatex. He is responsible for Mexico and eight other Latin American markets.

Audatex is a unit of Solera Holdings Inc. Solera was founded in 2005.

Agustin Rios, former coordinator of INA's annual international automotive congress, was named interim president, effective April 15, the day Suarez left.