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Rafael Guilisasti has been a director and vice-chairman of the board of Viña Concha y Toro since September 1998. Mr. Guilisasti has a wide and outstanding experience in the Chilean wine industry. He joined Viña Concha y Toro in 1977 and became its Export Director between 1985 and 1998, a period of great expansion for the Company in the international markets.
He was chairman of Viñas de Chile between 1986 and 2003, an industry association bringing together approximately 85% of the Chilean wine-producers and whose object is to promote Chilean wines in the international markets and review political and legal matters affecting the Chilean wine industry. At the present time, Rafael Guilisasti is a director of Vinos de Chile.
His experience in the financial area includes the position of chief executive officer of Viñedos Emiliana S.A., a company mainly focused on wine exports, director of Frutícola Viconto, a fruit exporting company and director of Viña Almaviva.
In April 2005, he was elected as First Vice-President of the Elective Council of Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (the Chilean manufacturers’ association). | 