Columbia Alumni Club of Chile

We are very pleased to share with the community the composition of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Columbia Alumni Association of Chile, valid until June 2027.

New Board of Directors:

Juan Somavía ’98SIPA - President
Naisa Gormaz ’14TC - Vice President
Manuel Blanco ’96LAW - Secretary
Alexander Hazbún ’14SIPA - Treasurer
Pablo Gazzolo ’05SIPA
Valentina Lagos ’15SIPA
Dan Poniachik ’20SIPA
Eliana Chamizo ’02SIPA

Also, we want to thank the outgoing directors Graciela Ibañez, Pablo Cassorla and Thomas Dinges, for their great contribution during these years. Specially for being part of the first board that created the Association.

For more details, please visit: https://chile.alumni.columbia.edu/club_leadership

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Columbia undergrads organize a tech trek to Santiago

Columbia undergraduate students visited Santiago during the Thanksgiving break. They visited Fundación Chile, Betterfly, Nubox, ACU Abogados, NotCo, Zeppelin, BCI and Daedalus Ventures as part of a tech trek. The Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs organized the trip to expose the students to Chilean entrepreneurship and technological advancements. Student Hassane Fiteni contacted the Columbia Alumni Association of Chile to ask for help with the trip organization. Board members Jorge Domínguez Cruzat and Alex Hazbún organized them some site visits. During their time in Santiago, students met with alumni living in Chile to celebrate Thanksgiving at La Resistencia Café in Providencia.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR MENTORS!

Emprende tu Mente, the organizers of EtMday, International Meeting of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Investment, invite the Columbia alumni community in Chile to participate in the 2023 edition of this event, which will take place next week on Thursday, November 16, and Friday, November 17, at Parque Bicentenario in Vitacura.

Emprende tu Mente is a non-profit that connects entrepreneurs and startups with corporate leaders to promote economic and social development in Chile and the LATAM region.

This will be the third edition of EtMday. The organization is working with a significant portion of the Chilean and regional entrepreneurship, innovation and investment ecosystem. The goal is to to repeat this event annually, position Chile as the regional hub of innovation, entrepreneurship and investment, making EtMday the main event of this kind in Latin America.

The invitation to Columbia alumni is to participate in one-on-one mentoring. These are personalized advisory sessions where experts share their knowledge to provide support to early-stage entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses or facing specific challenges. The idea is to do this through close, one-on-one conversations where they can offer advice, share experiences, make connections, and more.

The mentoring categories include sales strategy, marketing, branding & storytelling, business model, finance & accounting, legal, sustainability, financing, digital transition & e-commerce. Each mentoring session lasts one hour and advises two entrepreneurs. As you can see, it does not require an extensive commitment, just one hour of your time. Each mentor can sign up for their preferred theme and time slot that is available. There is no need to prepare a presentation or follow a fixed methodology; it's more about listening to the entrepreneur.

We are looking to contribute with at least five mentors in a Global Center - Columbia Alumni stand, providing more people with access to knowledge and development.

Mentors who register will receive a complimentary ticket to the event, which will also feature various interesting activities such as business meetings, panel discussions, entrepreneur stands, and more.

You can review the complete schedule here: https://www.etmday.org/programa

Additionally, here you can see a summary of EtMday 2022 to get excited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua8hsrFQZPI

To address questions and register, please write to María Ignacia Comminetti, Content and Ecosystem Leader at Emprende tu Mente ([email protected]).

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Chileans who are traveling to New York City to start their studies at Columbia University attended a farewell lunch in Santiago. It was great to meet students who are going to different schools such as Law, Journalism, Business, Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Professional Studies, Social Work, Arts and Engineering and one student who's going to Columbia College. We welcome them to the Columbia community!

Sign up for this SIPA event about minerals in Latin America. Chile's former energy minister Juan Carlos Jobet, who joined Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow, is among the participants.

Dear members,



As agreed by the Board of Directors, all members are called to the General Meeting of Members of the Asociación Chilena de Ex alumnos de la Universidad de Columbia (Columbia Alumni Association of Chile), which shall take place online on Monday, June 5, at 7 pm through the following Google Meet link https://meet.google.com/zsp-kkpy-zkw in order to discuss and agree on matters of interest to the Association that are typical of a general meeting.

We look forward to your presence.

Regards,

Graciela Ibáñez

President

Asociación Chilena de Ex alumnos de la Universidad de Columbia (Columbia Alumni Association of Chile)

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Citación a asamblea general ordinaria de socios de la Asociación Chilena de Ex alumnos de la Universidad de Columbia



Estimados socios:



Por acuerdo del directorio, se cita a todos los socios a asamblea general ordinaria de socios de la Asociación Chilena de Ex alumnos de la Universidad de Columbia, la que tendrá lugar el próximo día lunes 5 de junio a las 19:00 horas a realizarse de manera remota a través del siguiente enlace de Google Meet https://meet.google.com/zsp-kkpy-zkw con el objeto de tratar y adoptar acuerdos en relación con asuntos de interés de la Asociación que sean propios de una asamblea ordinaria.

Contamos con su presencia.

Saludos,

Graciela Ibáñez

Presidente

Asociación Chilena de Ex alumnos de la Universidad de Columbia

Columbia Alumni Association of Chile
http://chile.alumni.columbia.edu/

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The Columbia Alumni Association of Chile and the Harvard Club de Chile organized a visit to the port city of Valparaíso on May 13. Alumni and their families went to the Museo Marítimo Nacional, where Professor Marco Fernández offered a guided tour of part of the museum's collection and the Antarctic Room.

Following the visit to the museum, alumni had lunch at the historic Navy Club and visited the 19th-century house of cultural heritage advocate and porteño Gonzalo Ibáñez Santa María on the Paseo Atkinson in Cerro Concepción.

More photos here:
https://chile.alumni.columbia.edu/visit_to_the_port_city_of_valpara_so

Our 2022 annual celebration took place at Hotel Cumbres Lastarria on December 6. During the reception, Alfredo Etcheberry ’55LAW received the Outstanding Columbia University Alumnus Award. The pandemic had forced us to suspend this ceremony in 2020 and 2021. The event was an opportunity for alumni to catch up before the year ended.

In memory of Karen Poniachik ’90SIPA, our friend, mentor and driving force behind the CAA Chile, the Santiago Global Center launched the Memory Album, a book featuring anecdotes and stories describing the experiences of more than 200 Chilean alumni while at Columbia.

As 2023 begins, we wish you all the best for this year.

We look forward to seeing all alumni at our Columbia community's annual celebration in Santiago on December 6th, 2022. Please, register in the link below:

https://chile.alumni.columbia.edu/columbia_community_s_annual_celebration_in_santiago

Juan Somavía '98SIPA is looking to fill this position at AngloAmerican in Santiago. Columbia alumni are encouraged to apply.

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