Achievements Club 30% Chile & Mexico
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
“More voices need to be heard at
the boardroom table, especially in
challenging times”
The pandemic has impacted the female talent
pipeline which in combination with global social
disruption is forcing diversity to be at the top of
the boardroom agenda.
It is under this context, that the Chilean and
Mexican chapters have joined efforts to adapt
and present alternatives to continue promoting
talent and diversity to strengthen our position
across boundaries.
In our local markets, we recognize that there is
still a long journey before we reach at least 30% of
female participation at boards. This is the reason
why we are taking advantage of the window
of opportunities that markets abroad open for
Latinas, which are considered minorities.
We want to share the achievements along the
past months as well as to announce that, both
chapters recently consolidated a partnership
with theBoardlist and Cornerstone Group. The
first, is a unique dynamic platform based in San
Francisco, California, that has placed over 10,000
high caliber female candidates in US Boards. This
relationship provides a robust visibility with their
partners which include among others, Nasdaq.
The second one is a highly recognized Global
Executive Search Firm that will assess participants
to ensure their board readiness skills, so that our
members can endorse the candidates to the
type of board that matches their profile.
This effort is currently led by María Pía Aqueveque
from Chile and Claudia Corona from Mexico. We
expect to have our first list of candidates during
the first half of 2022.
María Pía Aqueveque
Chair of the 30% Club Chile & Member
of the Global Advisory Board at WISeKey.
CHILE CHAPTER
The 30% Club Chile was launched in
September 2019, supported by Antofagasta
Minerals and EY Chile with the aim to
facilitate a collaborative platform of local
and international best practices that could
support Chairs and CEOs, in particular at IPSA
and IGPA companies, to accelerate in the
incorporation of more women in their boards
and leadership positions. IPSA companies
achieved 14% female participation on
their boards of directors, 4.6% more than
the previous year. Through the Investor
Group, we are working to support the asset
management ecosystem with worldwide
best practices in the importance of diversity
as a ESG investment strategy.
We are proud to announce that through
partnerships we have been able to strengthen
our Board Readiness, MBA Scholarships and
Cross Company Mentoring Program. And we
plan to continue consolidating them from
a local and international scope. In order to
expand our international value proposal, we
have established ties with 30% Club Chapters
in other continents and as a result we hosted
an event with Chairs of the UK and Italian
Chapter. Here below is a summary of some
of our 2021 achievements and more to come.
Inter-Company Mentoring Program Club
30% : in collaboration with WoomUp. The
first version was launched in 2021 with the
participation of 152 participants, 51 mentors
(15 women and 36 men) and 51 mentees in
total from the member companies: Anglo
American, Antofagasta Minerals, Colbún,
MasterCard Chile and Walmart Chile. Chairs
and CEOs of these companies participated
as mentors. This January 14th we are
launching the second version of the program
were four companies participate with their
organizations (Anglo American, Antofagasta
Minerals, MasterCard Chile and Walmart
Chile). Most of the members of these
organisations will participate as mentors.
And in this opportunity our members CEO
of AES Andes, Aguas Andinas, The Coca-
Cola Company and the Managing Director
of Stanton Chase accept the invitation to
participate as mentors.
MBAs Scholarship Program with more than
six half scholarships for MBAs from five
programs (2 local and three international) at
Adolfo Ibañez University and one program
at Diego Portales University, for any woman
who meets the admission process for
each program. This year two women were
beneficiaries of our scholarships and the
program has been operated by Accenture.
For 2022, we are planning to expand the
scholarships to Master on Innovation and
Technology programs.
Board Readiness Scolarship Program we
have provided for one full scholarship for
the program “Effective Boards of Directors”
30%
organized by EY and the Chilean Institute
of Directors. There’s also a seventy five
percent scholarship for the program “Board
of Women” run by Women Entrepreneur
(Mujeres Empresarias) in alliance with
Cambridge Business Association. Ten
women were awarded scholarship under this
program.
“Diversity in the digital era: Breaking
paradigms” in collaboration with MasterCard
Chile, in which we talked about the
opportunities and challenges that currently
exist to advance on diversity and gender
inclusion issues within companies. The
event was hosted by our member Patricio
Sandoval, Country Manager MasterCard
Chile & Paraguay and as panelist the Chairs
of the 30% Club in different countries. Ann
Cairns, Global Chair 30% Club & Vice Chair
MasterCard; Stefano Rebattoni, President
30% Club Italy & CEO IBM Italy; and María
Pía Aqueveque Jabbaz, Chair 30% Club
Chile & Global Advisory Board WISeKey SA
participated in the activity.
CEOs Event “Collaborate to move forward”.
The event was hosted by our member,
Gonzalo Gebara, CEO of Walmart Chile. Other
participants in the conversation were Roberta
Valenca, Multi Country CEO for Chile, Bolivia
& Paraguay of The Coca-Cola Company;
Thomas Keller, CEO of Colbún; Nicolás
Goldstein, Managing Director of Accenture;
and Marta Colet, CEO of Aguas Andinas.
MEXICO CHAPTER
The Mexican chapter is in its early stages. It
launched in December 2020 and has set a solid
footprint with members, reaching around 50
companies to promote female talent within
and outside their own organization. We have
also strengthened our partnerships with
Women Economic Forum, Ipade, Egade,
Dalia Empower, Mercer, theBoardlist to offer
tools for enabling future women leaders.
We are proud to mention that the new Stock
Exchange BIVA, together with BMV are now
participating in our statistics, Women On
Board’s participation has increased to nearly
10% from 6.5% of previous year. We plan to
continue consolidating our presence locally
and internationally to present joint efforts
and also to enrich teams diversity across our
nearby chapters.
Finally, we are honoured to announce that
Mr. José Octavio Reyes Lagunes, a high
calibre member, accepted our invitation to
participate as Chair to continue this advocacy
role. Here below is a summary of our 2021
achievements and more to come.
Claudia Corona
Co-Chair of the 30% Club Mexico & Board Member
at AEM (The Mexican Entrepreneur Association)
Intercompany Cross Mentoring Program:
This is led in conjunction with Moving Ahead,
and has had a very positive impact with over
190 participants and 17 companies. This
is the first time that 2/3 of our mentors are
male. Our first cohort will end on Feb’22 and
we plan to continue providing this program
during the 2H’22.
Investor Group: Head Pablo Casaux.
We are currently onboarding investors into
the group and plan to formally activate
the investor group once we have 5 formal
confirmations.
Our potential key partners include the
Interamerican Development Bank and the
two stock exchanges BIVA and BMV. We
have co- organized with the latter, webinars
targeted to listed companies to promote: (i)
The case for diversity as a business case,
(ii) The building blocks for developing
corporate purpose on gender equality and
(iii) Disclosure.
We have also pitched the 30% Club campaign
at meetings with the Mexican Pension Funds
Association (both at high level as well as to
their Sustainability committee) and the funds
associations.
HR Best Practices Group: Head Sandrine
Dupriez
The group is founded under three main
pillars: Corporate, Professional and Personal
to attend to specific needs at diverse levels.
In the 2Q’21, we invited our members to an
onboarding session with Bloomberg’s Gender
Equality Index (GEI) Team. As a result, this year
Mexican companies ranked second globally
(after the US) in number of new companies
that have started reporting to this Index.
Also, during this period, Mexico delivered a
pilot program of the I am remarkable Course,
an original Google initiative, led by Gemma
Godoy, where Chile’s Chair also participated.
We partnered with Mercer to present
a study regarding the gender pay gap
and the differences between companies’
pledges and their actions to establish six
recommendations. These have already been
circulated with our members to work on the
2022 agenda as well as on the toolkits that will
be developed accordingly. This is an effort
led by Pilar Brogeras from Stanton Chase
and Sandrine Dupriez from Expanscience.
