AmCham partners choose board members for their new leaders: EY Chile, Oracle and Walmart

Roberto Walker, President of Principal Financial Group; Macarena Navarrete, Senior Partner (National Managing Partner) of EY Chile; Sandra Guazzotti, General Manager of Oracle Chile; and Gonzalo Gebara, vice president of sales at Walmart Chile, have been elected to the board of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce, AmCham Chile.

This new board of directors is composed of recognized professionals in their respective fields and in the private sector. , at the same time it is integrated by people who for years have contributed to trade and investment relations between Chile and the United States. The above, always keeping in mind the new trends and good practices that are essential to the competitiveness of our country. The new members of the Board of Directors are also distinguished by their diversity of economic sectors, genders, nationalities and the fact that they all belong to organizations with US capital.

AmCham Chile's president, Guillermo Carey, stressed that "the current board of the chamber is composed of a multidisciplinary team, also permanently linked to artificial intelligence, to cybersecurity , the collaborative economy, financial markets and government issues, business transformation tools and digital, among others.The board of directors of the House includes representatives of industries, industries, companies and organizations that have contributed to the growth of the country on the basis of a vision of the future related to the interests and concerns of all our partners and the keys to development of the country. "

New members The main functions of the Board of Directors for the 2019-2021 period will be to further promote integration between Chile and the United States, as well as to create opportunities for dialogue between the United States and the United States. between the private sector, authorities, academics, civil society representatives and governments. opinion leaders. The above comes from a vision that aims to generate actions aimed at strengthening the links between the public and private sectors in a permanent, modern way and in accordance with the needs of a business world confronted with new paradigms.

The electoral process was conducted through e-voting, in which partner companies expressed their preferences. This process corresponds to the annual renewal of one-third of the repertoire established by the statutes of the House.

The newly elected members will join the Board on January 1, 2019 and remain in office until December 2021. The current Board will also consist of the following members: the current Speaker of the House, Guillermo Carey; Janet Awad, Regional President of Sodexo Latam; the national manager of Microsoft Chile, Sergio Rademacher; the Director of Corporate and Commercial Affairs of Arauco, Charles Kimber; the Director General of Fundación Chile, Marcos Kulka; the Director of the Columbia University Global Center, Karen Poniachik; the president of Provida AFP, Víctor Hbadi; and Francisco Costabal, Vice President, Business Development and Administration of Freeport-McMoRan, for South America. The Commercial Counselor of the United States Embbady in Chile, James McCarthy, is joined to them.