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2024-2025
Jose Carlos Santander Palacios
Jose Carlos Santander Palacios
Economist of Universidad America.
Principal Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente as from March 2019. Previously he belonged to the Boards of Directors of Fiduciaria de Occidente, Corficolombiana, Leasing de Occidente, among others.
Ricardo Villaveces Pardo (Independent Member)
Ricardo Villaveces Pardo
Industrial Engineer of Universidad de los Andes.
As from 1991, belongs to the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente.
Ivan Felipe Mejia Cabal (Independent Member)
Ivan Felipe Mejia Cabal
Belongs to the Boards of Directors of Banco de Occidente since 1996 and of the Boards of: Ingenio Providencia, Chamber of Commerce of Palmira and Industrias de Envases.
Felipe Ayerbe Muñoz (Independent Member)
Felipe Ayerbe Muñoz
Lawyer of Universidad de los Andes, with Specializations in Commercial Law of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and in Comparative Law of New York University.
Belongs to the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente since 1993 and of the Boards of: Plásticos Flexibles, Productos Coldecom and Almacenes Éxito.
Mauricio Gutiérrez Vergara
Mauricio Gutiérrez Vergara
Physician of Universidad Javeriana of Bogota, with Specializations in Arthroscopic Surgery of New York University, Orthopedics and Traumatology of Universidad Javeriana and has taken courses and seminars in the same University, of Personalized Coaching, Investment Banking and Entrepreneurial Direction.
Member of the Financial Committee, Credit Committee, and belongs to the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente since 2008.
Currently Director of the Postgraduate Degree in Sports Traumatology of the Imbanaco Medical Center and belongs to the Boards of Directors of the Scott Colombian Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Society of Knee Arthroscopy, Arthromed, of the Latin American Society of Arthroscopy; Knee and Sports. Member of the Financial Committee of the Imbanaco and Promedical Medical Center.
Eduardo Herrera Botta (Independent Member)
Eduardo Herrera Botta
Industrial Engineer of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá, with Masters Degree in Administration and Finance and Specialization in Marketing in EAFIT – Medellin.
Currently belongs to the Board of Directors of: Grupo Fanalca, Alianza Fiduciaria, Imecauca, Zona Franca Palmaseca, Ciudad Limpia, RF Comunicaciones and ANDI.
Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente since December 10, 2015 and currently holds the position as President of SUPERTEX S.A.
Mauricio Iragorri Rizo (Independent Member)
Mauricio Iragorri Rizo
Industrial Engineer of Georgia University, CEO’s Management Program de Kellog School Of Management. He has served as Factory Engineer, Head of Costs, Deputy Manager of Operations, Commercial Manager and nowadays, General Manager of Mayaguez S.A.
Belongs to the Board of Directors of Banco de Occidente in the capacity as Alternate Member since June 18, 2014.
Eduardo Duque Suarez
Eduardo Duque Suarez
Economist from the Universidad de los Andes with more than 27 years of experience in entities in the financial sector regarding risk supervision, adoption of the Basel III principles, complex and transformational episodic transactions in corporate and consumer banking, corporate finance, and investment banking in the Latin American markets.
Maria Fernanda Mejía de Juri (Independent Member)
Maria Fernanda Mejía de Juri
Public Accountant from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with Training in External Auditing, Certified Management Systems, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Family Businesses. She has extensive administrative and commercial experience. She currently serves as president of the Board of Directors of the Casa de Colombia Foundation, Leader of the Association of Consular Ladies of Cali, member of the Financial Committee of the Tobías Emmanuel Institute, member of the Financial Committee of the Casa de Colombia Foundation, and member of the Committee Treasury of the Liceo de La Amistad.
Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo
Gerardo Silva Castro
Gerardo Silva Castro
Civil Engineer of Universidad Javeriana of Bogota, with Master Degree in Business Management of Babson College, Wellesley, United States; has attended programs at Universidad Icesi as High Executive of the Municipal Government and at the Leadership Center and Transformative Management Business Leadership, in addition he has attended different seminars and courses in strategy, finance, marketing, innovation and processes.
Has broad experience in the financial sector in different positions for over 25 years; works with the Bank since 1994 as Entrepreneurial Vice President, Official and Intermediate, in April 2014 he was appointed Companies Vice President, and in august 2023 was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Banco de Occidente.
Douglas Berrío Zapata – Legal Vice-President
Douglas Berrío Zapata
Lawyer of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota, with specialization of the same University in Socioeconomics and Commercial Law.
Has been professor of different universities in Commercial Law, Introduction to Law, Banking Legislation, Introduction to Banking, among others.
During his professional career, has performed in various positions in the Legal Area; in 1988 he joined Banco de Occidente and in 1992 he was appointed Legal Vice President.
Currently he belongs to the following Boards of Directors: Fiduciaria de Occidente, Concesionaria Vial de los Andes, Fondo de Pensiones Porvenir, Banco de Occidente (Panama) and Occidental Bank and Trust Barbados.
Ivan Mauricio Ricardo Arias – Companies Vice-President
Ivan Mauricio Ricardo Arias
Economist and International Negotiator from Icesi University, with a master's degree in Finance from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France; He has completed Senior Management programs with the University of Los Andes and Advanced Management Program with the Instituto de Empresa, Spain.
He has extensive experience in the financial sector in different management positions for more than 20 years. He has worked at the Bank since 2020 as Zonal Manager of Corporate Banking, Vice President of Business and SME Banking. In August 2023 he was appointed Companies Vice President.
Mauricio Maldonado Umaña - Strategy and Financial Vice-President
Mauricio Maldonado Umaña
Mr. Maldonado is an industrial engineer of Universidad de los Andes, with Master Degree in Business Administration of University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Has worked for entities such as McKinsey & Co., Corficolombiana, and recently as Strategy Vice President of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A, position held as from May 2012 to September 2018.
Likewise he has participated as member of the Boards of Directors, highlighting Banco Popular S.A, Promigas S.A. ESP, and Casa de Bolsa S.A.
Mr. Sinisterra is Business Manager of Universidad ICESI.
Has held several positions in the Financial Sector, as Credit Cards Vice President and Channels Vice President of Banco de Bogota. He was also Commercial and Marketing Vice President of Copa Airlines and Cellular Phones Vice President of Samsung Electronics Colombia.
Currently he belongs to the Board of Directors of Ventas y Servicios S.A. and Redeban.
Pedro Luis Villegas Ramirez - Operations and Technology Vice-President
Pedro Luis Villegas Ramirez
Mr. Villegas is an electronic engineer of Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana of Medellin, with a specialization degree in Telematics of Universidad de los Andes and a Master Degree in Business Administration of Universidad de la Sabana.
Has worked for entities such as Organizacion Corona, Banco de Occidente, Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A, Credibanco Visa, Experian Datacredito y Digit. Likewise, he has participated as a member of Boards of Directors, highlighting Servibanca S.A, Ventas y Servicios S.A. and Incocrédito.
Civil Engineer of Universidad de los Andes, with an MBA of the same university.
Has experience in financial, commercial areas, credit granting and risk, obtained through his work in Fiduciaria La Previsora, Corredores Asociados, Banco de Bogotá, Citi Bank and Scotiabank Colpatria S.A.
Johnny Leyton Fernández - Risk and Collection Vice-President
Johnny Leyton Fernández
Civil Engineer of Universidad del Valle, with technical and Project management in-depth studies, with Specialization in Finance of Universidad Icesi. Has also taken seminars relating to Treasury Management, Investment Strategies in Treasury Certificates, Technical and Fundamental Analysis, Liquidity Risk and Transfers, Market Risk and Management and Handling of Operational Risk.
He joined the Bank in 1988 and has held the following positions: Programming and Control Director – Project Banco de Occidente Building, Autonomous Office Project Director, Director of Real Estate, Manager of Real Estate Division among others.
Currently belongs to the Board of Directors of Fiduciaria de Occidente.
Eduardo Alfonso Correa Corrales - Vice-President of Human Talent and Administration
Eduardo Alfonso Correa Corrales
Industrial Engineer of Universidad de los Andes of Bogota.
He joined the bank in 1980, holding the following offices: Subdirector of the Organization and Methods Division, Director of the Projects Department, Director of Banking Engineering, Deputy Manager of the Organization and Methods Division, Operations Support Manager and Human Resources Division Manager.
He currently belongs to the Board of Directors of Sales and Services and of the Fund of Employees of Banco de Occidente.
Ricardo Alberto Virguez García - Auditor
Ricardo Alberto Virguez García
He is an Industrial Engineer with a specialization in finance and capital markets, with more than 22 years of professional experience in the financial sector oriented to the evaluation of risks and controls related to internal control and audit systems (Planning, execution and completion of audit processes).
Over the course of his career, he has been part of the audit team at Banco Santander Colombia S.A., CorpBanca Helm S.A. , Banco Santander de Negocios Colombia S.A. and in the last five years, he has been part of the audit teams of Grupo Aval companies such as Banco de Bogotá. S.A., Almaviva S.A. and Fiduciaria Bogotá S.A. He was also an independent consultant at the organizational, operational and administrative and risk management levels in other companies.
