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André Gailey

André Gailey became Chief Executive Officer of Itaú Chile on October 1, 2024. He has been over 26 years at the Itaú group and became a partner in 2010. Between 2021 and 2024, Mr. Gailey has served as Regional CEO for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay as well as CEO of Itaú Uruguay; he has also held the position of CEO of Itaú Paraguay (2019 – 2021). Previously, Mr. Gailey has served as head of the Corporate Segment of Itau BBA (2017 – 2019), covering clients of different industries from all regions of Brazil. He has also held the position of head of Planning and Global Head of Products of the corporate banking for Itaú BBA, covering Brazil, Latin America and the North Hemisphere. Mr. Gailey holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from the University of Stanford, and an Executive MBA in Finance from INSPER, São Paulo.

Sebastián Romero

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Sebastián Romero became Corporate Director of Wholesale and Investment Banking on September 20, 2021. Mr. Romero has extensive experience leading teams that serve global corporations, financial institutions and financial sponsors. Prior to joining us, Mr. Romero held a wide range of executive roles at Santander Group in Chile, Spain and London. He served as Global Head of Multinational Corporations based in London, being member of the Global Executive Committee of Banking & Corporate Finance. Previously, he led the Corporate and Investment Banking unit in Chile. In March 2009, Mr. Romero was appointed Managing Director and Global Head of Export & Agency Finance based in Madrid, with global responsibilities to oversee all structured export finance activities of the Santander Group. Mr. Romero received a B.A. in Business and Administration from Universidad Gabriela Mistral and a post-degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Universidad de los Andes.

Julián Acuña Moreno

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Julián Acuña Moreno became corporate director of Retail Banking in September 2016. Mr. Acuña has vast experience in both national and international banking, having worked as Commercial Division Manager in Chile and in Colombia in Banco Santander-Chile and in Banco Santander Colombia, respectively. Mr. Acuña holds an Accountant Auditor degree from the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

Daniel Brasil

Daniel Brasil became corporate director of Treasury on January 1, 2023. Mr. Brasil has more than 17 years of experience in the Latin American banking industry in the Treasury area. He began his career at Citibank Brazil as a trader banking, then he joined Itaú Unibanco where for 9 years, he also worked as a trader banking, was in charge of the functions of transfer price, hedge investments abroad and Latam market trader, in addition to participating in the merger of Itaú Unibanco. He has spent the last 6 years of his career at Itaú Chile as Banking Manager and ALM. He also participated in the merger process of Itaú with Corpbanca. Mr. Brasil is Engineer from University of São Paulo.

Jorge Novis Neto

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Jorge Novis Neto became Corporate Director of Digital Business Development in March 2021, leading the digital transformation of Itaú in Chile. Mr. Novis previously served as Corporate Director of Operations between April 2018 and February 2021. He joined Itaú Corpbanca in May 2017 as Head of Strategic Planning and Quality Service. He previously worked at Itaú Unibanco for approximately four years, leading several business transformation programs. He also worked as a management consultant between 2002 and 2014, working in Latin America, the US, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Novis received a Civil Engineer degree from Universidade Federal da Bahia, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Finance from Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Mauricio Baeza Letelier

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Mauricio Baeza Letelier became Chief Risk Officer in September 2016. With more than 33 years of experience in the banking industry, Mr. Baeza Letelier has held diverse executive positions in risk management areas of local banking institutions. He served as Chief Risk Officer of Banco de Chile and is currently the vice president of the Risk Committee of the Bank and Financial institution Association of Chile (Asociación de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras de Chile). Mr. Baeza received an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Eduardo Neves

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Eduardo Neves became Corporate Director of IT on April 2, 2021. Mr. Neves has more than 26 years of experience in technology, working mainly in the financial and telecommunications sectors. Previously, he served as Vice President of Cloud Applications and Innovation for Latin America at IBM, from Brazil, where he led large-scale projects since joining in 2013. He was responsible for the accounts of Bradesco and later Itaú Unibanco, managing most of the IBM Consulting business for Latin America. He studied Engineering in Technology, and has an MBA from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Cristián Toro Cañas

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Cristián Toro Cañas became General Counsel in June 2016. Mr. Toro worked for more than 10 years in Citibank Chile, acting as general counsel since 2004. In 1999 he worked at Shearman & Sterling in New York. In 2008 he joined Lan Airlines as legal vice-president. After the merger of Lan and Tam, he continued to work as legal vice-president and as the secretary of the board of directors of Latam Airlines Group. Mr. Toro received a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad de Católica de Chile and a master of law degree from the New York University School of Law.

Marcela Jiménez Pardo

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Marcela Jiménez Pardo became Corporate Director of Human Resources in April 2016 and since April 2022 also became responsible for Sustainability. She also served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Corpbanca between July 2012 and March 2016. Previously, she served in the Global Banking Consulting Group at Banco de Chile from 2008 to 2012. Mrs. Jiménez received an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a postgraduate degree in Human Resources Management from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.