Chairman: Segismundo Schulin-Zeuthen Serrano
Vice-Chairman: Roberto Palumbo Ossa
Chief Executive Officer: Pablo Piñera Echenique
It is the body responsible for the Bank's senior management. It is formed by the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
The duties of the Committee include all matters concerning the management and operation of the company. Its role deals with agreeing, performing and signing any act, contract, pact or agreement that leads to accomplishing the objectives of the Bank and may particularly:
- Determine the conditions and methods, such as guarantees, maximum amounts and interest rates, for various Bank operations.
- Oversee the fulfillment of agreements, standards and instructions.
- Approve the annual budget for investments and expenditures, its modification, provisions and write offs relating to any cause, financial statement or Annual Report for a financial year.
- Present an annual report to the Board on company operations and development.
- Agree on investments, acquisitions and disposals of real estate, securities and other movable property.
- Solve credit applications and other operations authorized by the Bank, whatever their nature and amount; internal and external credit through lines of credits, loans or any other form, adjusting to regulations that govern such operations, and decide on granting bonds, sureties and other guarantees.
- Name, remove, transfer, accept resignations, second, sanction with disciplinary measures and terminate employee services that regulations qualify as senior level.
- Know the information that the Chief Executive Officer and the Division General Managers submit for review or resolution, according to the regulations determined by the Committee.
- Directly issue or through Bank authorities or officials appointed, the instructions and recommendations required to efficiently manage and run company operations.
- Confer special powers and delegate in any of the members, in one or various Committees or senior level positions, or in one or several officials expressly specified, the consideration or solution of relevant matters.
- Appoint officials who will act as authenticating officer to bear witness to the truthfulness and authenticity of Bank actions and documents, and also to its own deliberations and agreements.
Chairman: Juan Carlos Méndez González
Roberto Palumbo Ossa
Jorge Rodríguez Grossi
Patricio Meller Bock
Guillermo Ramírez Vilardell
The Audit Committee is an important internal control body; its mission is to strengthen and support corporate governance. Its duties are supplemental to those of the general counsel established by Organic Law.
The Chairman is an official who has the exclusive trust of the President of the Republic and the extrajudicial representation of the Bank, especially before public authorities and banking and finance entities, both national and international. The Chairman also deals with the following:
- Preside over the Board and Committee meetings and call for extraordinary meetings, setting the relevant table of contents.
- Perform senior supervision of the company, and
- Comply with all the duties entrusted by the Board and the Committee.
The Vice Chairman is an official who has the exclusive trust of the President of Republic. In particular the Vice Chairman's has to:
- Subrogate the Chairman in the event of absence, vacancy or any other cause that impedes the latter to perform duties, and does not require authorization by a third party. The subrogation includes all the duties and powers of the Chairman, including those by delegation, and
- Perform the duties and attributions entrusted or delegated by the Committee and Board.
The Chief Executive Officer has the exclusive trust of the President of the Republic and is responsible for the immediate management of the Bank based on the powers conferred and instructions issued by the Committee.
Similarly to the Chairman, the CEO has the extrajudicial representation of the Bank. Furthermore, the CEO has the judicial representation with the powers stated in paragraph one, article 7 under the Civil Proceedings Code, and is served notices of civil actions against the Bank, to validly represent the Bank.
As part of the duties for the immediate management of the Bank, the CEO has to:
- Coordinate the Division General Managers.
- Present before the Committee, personally or by officials appointed by the CEO, statements of condition or detailed information on company operations.
- Attend Board meeting without the right to vote.
- Contract, promote, transfer, second, sanction – pursuant to the disciplinary measures authorized by the internal regulations - Bank officials, except senior level executives, accept resignations, and terminate work contracts of such officials, with the aforementioned exception.
- Propose to the Committee to hire, promote, transfer, second, sanction with disciplinary measures, and accept resignations and termination of employment contracts of senior level officials.
- Submit the Company's Annual Report and Financial Results to be approved by the Committee.
- Delegate certain roles to other Bank officials, except in such cases, due to their nature, the CEO would have to perform personally, and
- Perform all the duties entrusted by the Board and Committee.