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Directors

The Board of directors is the highest governing body for corporate governance at Entel, representing shareholders. It directors are individually elected at the AGM for a 3-year period, with re-election allowed indefinitely.

Juan José Hurtado Vicuña

Chair

Civil Engineer, Universidad de Chile. Member of the Boards of Directors of Grupo Consorcio, Pucobre S.A., Universidad Santo Tomás and Previsa S.A.

Luis Felipe Gazitúa Achondo

Vice-chairman

Commercial Engineer, Universidad de Chile. Chair of the Board of Almendral, Chair of the Board of CMPC S.A. and a member of the Board of Softys S.A., an affiliate of the same group. He is also a member of CMPC’s Risk, Audit and IT committees. Member of the Board of Minera Valparaiso S.A., Pasur S.A. and Entel. He has been a Board member of Colbún and Cruzados SADP. He has executive experience as CEO of Forestal O’Higgins and of exporter Gnarl OPS. He has academic experience in financial accounting at Universidad de Chile, and in marketing at Universidad de los Andes.

Richard Büchi Buc

Board member

Civil Engineer, Universidad de Chile. MBA, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Member of the Board of Directors of Sociedad Punta del Cobre, Sociedad Agrícola Los Manquis S.A., Fundación País Digital and Entel Peru. He has more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications, including the position of Entel CEO between 1994 and 2011. Former CEO of Chilquinta. He has experience in strategy, management and finance consulting, and in digital technology research through his participation in País Digital.

Bernardo Matte Larraín

Board member

Commercial Engineer, Universidad de Chile. Chair of the Board of Directors of Banco Bice, Bicecorp S.A. and Compañía Industrial el Volcán S.A.

Juan José Mac-Auliffe Granello

Board member

Commercial Engineer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Member of the Board of Directors of Cimenta S.A., Parques S.A. and Huingan S.A. Former Board member of Ebema S.A., Fundación Banmédica and Vidaintegra S.A. and Compañía de Seguros Consorcio Seguros de Vida S.A. He has executive experience as CEO of Forestal S.A., where he was also head of the Research Department. He was a professor at the School of Administration of Pontificia Universidad Católica.

Carla Brusoni Silvani

Board member

Commercial Engineer specializing in Administration, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Not currently on any other Board of Directors. She is a manager of Financial Studies at Compañía de Seguros de Vida Consorcio Nacional de Seguros S.A., where she has been working for 30 years and where she participates in the Investment Committee. She has a long record in the financial sector and is a member of the Oversight Committee of an investment fund in BTG Pactual. She has served as a Board member of BioBio Cales and Multicaja.

Luz Granier Bulnes

Independent Board member

Commercial Engineer Specializing in Economy, Universidad de Chile. Chair of the Board of Directors of Desarrollo País (formerly Fondo de Infraestructura S.A.). Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee and member of Saesa Group’s Governance Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the University Coexistence Committee of Universidad Andrés Bello. Former Undersecretary of Social Services and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Public Works, Mining and Energy. For more than ten years, she worked at AES Gener and has also served on other Boards in the transportation, health and energy sectors in Chile and abroad.

Enrique Gundermann Wylie

Independent Board member

Civil industrial Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and MBA from that same university. Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ikea for Chile, Peru and Colombia, Director of the Global Home Improvement Network in Belgium, currently Director of Grupo Cochez in Panama and of Implementos S.A., of Grupo Epysa, in Chile, Peru and Spain. He headed the Corporate General Management of Sodimac S.A. for 8 years, after holding various positions in the Falabella group for 21 years. Joined Entel's Board of Directors in 2020.

As set forth by Chilean legislation, two of them are independent. Considering the independence criteria for Directors, included in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment of the Dow Jones index, 8 board members qualify as independent.

  • All board members were appointed to their posts during the past election for the Board of directors, held on April 25th, 2023.
  • The Board of directors of Entel has no alternate directors.
  • There is no restriction on the number of other boards of directors of which Entel board members may be part. It is worth noting, however, that no director currently participates in more than 4 boards in other public corporations.
  • Although there is no requirement for a minimum in attendance to regular meetings, over the past few years attendance has remained above 95%.