Chairman
Pablo Granifo Lavín
Chairman
Degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is the Chairman of the Board of Banco de Chile, Viña San Pedro Tarapacá S.A. and Quiñenco S.A. He is a member of the Board of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada, Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A. and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas Argentina S.A.
Additionally, he is Chairman of the Board of Banchile Asesorías Financieras S.A., Socofin S.A., and Banchile Administradora General de Fondos S.A. Also, he is a member the Board of Empresa Nacional de Energía Enex S.A. and Vice Chairman of the Board of Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores S.A.
Vice Chairman
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Houston, USA, and MBA from the University of Texas, USA.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of several of Companía Cervecerías Unidas S.A.’s subsidiaries, including Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada, Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A., Compañía Cervecerías Unidas Argentina S.A., Viña San Pedro Tarapacá S.A. and Compañía Pisquera de Chile S.A.
He has over 30 years of management and strategic consulting experience in multiple industries, especially in beverages and consumer goods across the Americas. In beverages, his roles have included business development for Heineken Americas, planning and strategy for Femsa Cerveza S.A. de C.V. and Board member of Kaiser in Brazil.
Prior to these roles, he was a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a global business consulting firm. In that role, he led strategy and supply chain efforts in supermarkets, food companies, high-end beverage companies and other consumer goods companies.
Director
Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is a member of the Board of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada, Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A. and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas Argentina S.A.
He serves as a Board member of Inversiones y Rentas S.A., Empresa Nacional de Energía Enex S.A., Enex Corp. (UK), Enex CL Ltd. (UK), Invexans S.A., Invexans Limited (UK), Tech Pack S.A. and LQ Inversiones Financieras S.A. Through these positions, he has acquired experience in the energy, commercial and manufacturing sectors.
He has been the Chief Legal Officer at Quiñenco S.A. since 2014 and a member of the Board of Directors of SOFOFA since 2017, where he is Chairman of the Chile-Argentina Chapter, Chairman of the Chile-Paraguay Chapter and Chairman of the Security Commission, all of which are trade associations. Previously, he served as Minister of the Interior (2010-2013) and then Minister of Defense (2013-2014) of the Government of Chile.
Director
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada and Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A.
He has vast experience across different countries and industries, working in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He held multiple executive positions at the Royal Bank of Scotland (“RBS”), including Executive Officer of Investment Banking and Non-Core Banking. At RBS, he helped design and execute the bank-wide restructuring during the 2008 financial crisis, working with HM Treasury and the Bank of England. Prior to that, he worked as an executive in private equity in Europe and Russia and in industrial chemicals and banking in Africa and the USA. As a non-executive, he has served as a Board member and/or Chairman of the Board in water utilities, chemicals, retail, agriculture, private investment and aviation leasing. He is currently the senior independent Board member of Acuren Corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Director
Engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers Paris, France, and from Technical University Aachen, Germany.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada, Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A. and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas Argentina S.A.
Previously, he worked for Danone Group and Sara Lee. In 1995, he joined Heineken and worked in Greece as plant director. In 1999, he became Regional Manager of Operations & Supply Chain for Europe and took over the position of Chief Executive Officer of Heineken Netherlands in 2002. In June 2005, he was appointed Chief Supply Chain Officer and member of the Global Executive Team of Heineken. In this position, he was responsible for the global supply chain, including manufacturing, as well as for R&D. From 2010 until 2015, he also was the Chairman of the Board of Empaque Mexico.
Director
Degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada and Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A.
He has been Chief Executive Officer of Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores S.A. since 2012 and a Board member of Hapag-Lloyd AG and the Chairman of its Audit Committee since 2014. He has been a Board member of Sociedad Matriz SAAM S.A. since 2015 and the Chairman of its Board of Directors since August 2017. He is also a Board member of Invexans S.A., a Board member and Chairman of the Strategic and Sustainability Committee of Nexans S.A. (France) and Board member of SOFOFA since 2017, of which he has been Vice Chairman since 2023. In 2002, he joined the Quiñenco Group, where he managed the Luksic family’s investments, mainly in tourism and real estate, in Croatia until 2011. Previously, he was part of the executive area of Michelin in France and Chile.
Director
Law degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil, and a Master of Laws from New York University School of Law, USA.
Currently serves as Legal Director for the Americas Region at The Heineken Company, where he has worked in different legal roles for more than fifteen years. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of Cervecera CCU Chile Limitada, Embotelladoras Chilenas Unidas S.A., and other beverage companies across the Americas Region.
A legal executive with approximately thirty years of experience, he combines expertise gained in private practice – as a partner in the corporate department of a major Brazilian law firm – with various in-house positions at The Heineken Company. These include serving as General Counsel of Heineken Brasil for ten years, during which time he was part of the management team of the company.
Alongside his deep knowledge of the beverage industry, his practice demonstrates a strong track record in corporate finance, risk management and controls, mergers and acquisitions, business integration and transformation. He has been recognized for two consecutive years by the Legal 500 as an in-house counsel highly specialized in Latin America
Director
He was appointed as a member of the Board of CCU S.A. on February 1, 2026. Mr. Valdés is a Director of SM SAAM and Chief Executive Officer of Quiñenco S.A. since February 1, 2026. Previously, he served as CEO of SM SAAM for 10 years and, prior to that, led the Development Division at the same company. He also held the position of Deputy Development Manager at Quiñenco. Since 2023, he has been a council member of Sofofa and serves on the board of Fundación Luksic. Mr. Valdés holds a degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Directora
Was appointed as independent director of the board of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on April 15th, 2026. She is an executive director with over 30 years of experience. Currently, she is a member of the boards of BNP Paribas Cardif, Institute of Directors (IoD) Chile, Instituto Chileno de Administración Racional de Empresas (ICARE), in Chile. Recognized as Executive of the Year in 2016, she is a prominent leader in corporate strategy and marketing. Previously, she served for 6 years as executive president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO) Chile and, previously for more than 20 years, its affiliates under Omnicom Inc. (Rapp Collins and Proximity). She received a Master of Science in Engineering Degree, (Business, Economy, Finance, Information Science) from CY Tech, France, a Senior Management Program at Babson College, a International Certification in Corporate Governance and Company Direction from Institute of Directors (IoD) and a Certificate in Digital Transformation from University of California, Berkeley. She was admitted as a Chartered Director from the IoD on 31 January 2025.