Chile:
New Members of the CORFO Council
Source: CORFO (http://www.corfo.cl)
Santiago de Chile, 12 January 1998. Two new private sector representatives, businessman Mariano Pola and economist Pedro Calvo, were appointed by the President of the Republic as advisers to the Chilean Production Development Corporation (Corfo).
Their incorporation is the result of the recent change in the law that governs the council. The President's two representatives from the private sector - one from the technological sector and the other from the financial sector – with experience in productive and business activities, were joined by the Foreign Relations and Agriculture ministers. In this manner they joined the Economy, Finance and Mideplan ministers and the deputy executive president of Corfo, who already belong to the institution's council.
Mariano Pola Matte (aged 41) is a civil electrical engineer who graduated from the University of Chile and who has a graduate degree in Project Preparation and Evaluation. Since 1982, he has been the director, general manager and founding member of Micrological S.A., a technology-based company engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for application in telecommunications, computer science and automatic control. He has also been director of Asexma since 1995.
Pedro Calvo Martinez (aged 46), a civil engineer who graduated from the University of Santiago (UTE), is founder and director of the consulting company Gemines S.A., where his work has involved evaluating dozens of projects for the country's most important companies and directing numerous sector and investment studies. He is the author of "The Social Economy of the Market and the DC," and of many other sector studies and monographs.
