Board of Directors

President of the Board of Friends of the Catholic University in Chile, Inc., is a lawyer in Chile as well as the United States, where she received a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law. She has broad-based experience in the corporate area in the United States.

Provost for Institutional Managerial Affairs at the Catholic University. He graduated in Civil Engineering in this University and received his MSc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Senior Counsel at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, resident in the New York office. He is engaged in the general practice of law, with particular emphasis on international financial matters.

Fernando Burgos is a financial advisor in both the US and Chile, with a successful career in the banking industry in those countries.

Journalist and businessman, is the Chairman and CEO of Contemporanea LLC, and an editorial board member of Americas Quarterly.

Executive chairman of True Office, a start-up technology company that uses gamification for regulatory compliance training.

Andres Echeverría is founder, partner and portfolio manager of Frontal Trust, an investment fund manager specialized in alternative assets, and has extensive experience in the financial services industry.

Senior Vice President and Director of Client Services at EFG Capital.

Founding Partner of Neorentas, a Fund Management Company specializing in Real Estate Investments. CEO of ALB Investments, Briones Family Office.

Mario Kreutzberger, better known as “Don Francisco,” is the creator and host of “Sábado Gigante”..

Head of the Santiago office of Goldman Sachs and senior advisor for Latin America.

Vice Chairman of The Georgetown Company, a privately held real estate and financial services company with interests in real estate development, ownership, financing, and asset management.

Loreto Massanés is the Vice-President for Economic Affairs of the Catholic University, position she has held since 2015.

Roberto Méndez is a professor at Catholic University’s School of Government. He holds a Ph.D and an MBA from Stanford University with a specialization in Consumer Research.

Pura Ortiz Borda received a BA degree in Sociology at the Catholic University of Chile and did postgraduate studies in Urban Planning at the Interdisciplinary Center of Urban Development.

During all of her professional carreer, she has dedicated significant time to social work. She has focused her initiatives working with low income people helping them acquiring different skills so they can make a living out of them.

Former President of the Catholic University and currently President of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Catholic Universities.

Sebastiano Scarampi is a retired business executive and international management consultant living in San Francisco. He holds Commercial Engineer and Magister (maximum honors) degrees from Universidad Catolica de Chile and an MBA from Stanford University.

Mario has earned degrees from Universidad Católica de Chile (Civil Engineer), U. of Chicago (MBA), and Harvard (MPA). He started his professional career in Chile. In 1991 he co-founded “Excel Chile Servicios Financieros S.A.”.

Portfolio Manager in global Emerging Markets (EM) in Millennium Management, LLC, and co-owner in Nolita Wine Merchants.

Benjamin D. Wolf is a Senior Vice President at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., where he oversees the firm’s wealth management business in the Southern Cone of Latin America (Chile, Argentina and Uruguay).