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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

Chairman

Civil Engineer, Universidad de Chile. Board member at Grupo Consorcio, and part of the Board of directors of Pucobre, among others. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 23 years.

Luis Felipe Gazitúa Achondo

Vice-chairman

BA, Universidad de Chile. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors of CMPC, and participates in the Board of directors of Softys S.A., a subsidiary of the CMPC. He is also part of the Risk Committee, Audit Committee, and IT Committee, of CMPC. He is a board member at Minera Valparaíso S.A., Pasur S.A., and Compañia Leasing Tattersal. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 20 years. He has executive expertise as CEO of Forestal O’Higgins and exporting company Gnarl OPS. He has academic experience, having taught financial accounting at Universidad de Chile and marketing-related courses at Universidad de los Andes.

Richard Büchi Buc

Director

Civil Mining Engineer from Universidad de Chile, MBA from Wharton School of Business. Board member of Sociedad Punta del Cobre. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 12 years. He boasts a 30-year career in telecommunications. He held the post of CEO at Entel between 1994 and 2011. He was also the CEO of Chilquinta. Consultancy experience in strategy, management and finances, and in digital technology research through his participation in País Digital.

Bernardo Matte Larraín

Director

BA, Universidad de Chile. He is a Board member of Compañía Industrial El Volcán S.A. He also chairs the Board of directors of Banco BICE. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 15 years.

Andrés Echeverría Salas

Director

BA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile MBA from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently does not hold a post in any other boards of directors. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 11 years. He is a partner at Frontal Trust S.A., and has investment fund administration experience in Latin America and the U.S.A.

Juan José Mac-Auliffe Granello

Director

BA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He currently participates in the boards of directors of Cimenta S.A., Parques S.A., Huingan S.A., and Consorcio Seguros de Vida S.A. At Consorcio, he is also part of the Operational Risk Committee. He has been part of the Board of directors of Entel for the past 28 years. He has executive expertise as CEO of Forestal S.A., where he also held the post of Head of the Studies Department. He has academic experience, having taught at the School of Business Administration of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Carla Brusoni Silvani

Director

B.S.B.A. with a Major in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Currently Head of the Financial Studies Division at Compañía de Seguros de Vida Consorcio Nacional de Seguros S.A., company for which she has worked for the past 29 years; she is part of the Investments Committee of the Company. She has a lengthy career in the financial sector and is part of the BTG Pactual investment fund Supervisory Committee. She had previously performed as Board member at companies BioBio Cales and Multicaja.

Luz Granier Bulnes

Independent Director

B.S.B.A. with a major in Economics from Universidad de Chile. She chairs the Board of Directors of Desarrollo País (formerly Fondo de Infraestructura S.A.,) board member at Grupo Saesa, and member of the Governing Board of Universidad Andrés Bello. She held the office of Undersecretary of Social Services and performed as Chief of Cabinet in the Ministries of Public Works, Mining, and Energy. At the beginning of her professional career, she worked for more than 10 years for company AES Gener, and has taken part, as well, in boards of directors of the transports, health, and energy industries; in Chile and overseas.

Enrique Gundermann Wylie

Independent Director

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%.