Executive Management
Ángel Mafucci Solimano
General Manager
Business Administrator, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. For more than 30 years, he has served in various executive positions in commercial and distribution areas, in Chile as well as in Peru. Between 2001 and 2007 he was Commercial Manager of Empresas Lipigas S.A. and in 2007 he takes on the position of General Manager, until today.
José Miguel Bambach Salvatore
Legal Manager
Attorney at Law, Universidad de Chile and SPIM, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne. He is and has been a director of regulated open and closed stock corporations, in Chile and abroad. Currently a partner at the law offices of Bambach & Campos.
Luis Alberto Orlandi Arrate
Retail Business Manager
Business Administrator and MBA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has vast experience in the development of new products and new models for commercialization and consumer communication. He takes on his position at Lipigas in 2014 with the mission of increasing sales of bottled product and residential networks along with strengthening the company’s commercial and marketing development.
Esteban Rodríguez Bravo
Large Clients Business Manager
Civil Industrial Engineer, Universidad de Concepción, and a master’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing from ESEM Business School in Madrid. He attended the Integral Management Program (PIM for its acronym in Spanish) at the IAE Business School, Universidad Austral de Buenos Aires. In the last 15 years he has been linked to the market expansion of LPG and LNG for industrial, commercial and vehicular customers.
Valerie Barnich
Electric Business Manager
Civil Industrial Engineer from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, with vast experience in the energy and financial sector in Chile and abroad. Before joining Lipigas in 2020, Valerie Barnich was VP of Business Development for AES Gener and VP of Acquisitions, Investments and Financial Consulting for Engie, both in Chile and Australia. He began his career in corporate banking in Belgium and Chile.
Morris Pessó Olcese
Business Transformation Manager
Industrial Civil Engineer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has more than 20 years of experience and previously he served as Logistics and Operations Manager of the Company.
María Josefa Ayarza León
Digital Factory Manager
Execution Engineer in Computer Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Diploma in Management Development, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and Advanced Management Program, CIO Institute, of the University of Berkeley. She is also an active member of the Centro Tecnológico from Universidad Católica de Chile (CETIUC).
Jesús Rodríguez Valiña
Logistics and Operations Manager
Civil Engineer from Universidad Santa María and MBA from Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela). With almost 20 years of experience in planning, organization and management of industrial activities, production, quality, R&D and logistics, he has developed as a leader in infrastructure projects and in the business of construction materials.
Mylene Iribarne Friedmann
People Manager
Psychologist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has a diploma in People Management and graduated from the AMP program of the Universidad de Los Andes. She is currently Director of the Human Resources Executive Circle (CERH for its acronym in Spanish) and an active member of the Sustainability Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago.
Mariela González Palacios
General Manager Trading de Gas SpA.
Industrial Civil Engineer, Universidad de Concepción, Global MBA from Universidad de Chile and University of Queensland, Australia and Master in Management Control. She has extensive experience in commercial and operations areas of national and multinational companies. With 10 years at Lipigas, the last 5 he led the Supply Logistics area, assuming this management in April 2021.
Jorge Avilán Aristizábal
General Manager Chilco Colombia
Industrial Engineer of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Cali, Colombia. He has extensive experience in managerial positions in multinational corporations. He joins Chilco in July 2012.
Patricio Mura Escobar
General Manager Lima Gas S.A
Accountant Auditor DuocUC, Master in Business Administration UDD and Diploma in Management of Human Capital UAI. With 15 years of experience in the gas industry, he has worked mainly in the commercial area and in the development of digital transformation projects, last mile efficiency and, in recent years, in the implementation of the natural gas business in the South of Chile.
