About

Since 2014 Dionisio Ismael Machuca Massis has worked for two of Bancolombia Group’s subsidiaries in El Salvador in the dual role of vice president (legal) and secretary for Banco Agricola and a judicial legal representative at Conglomerado Financiero Internacional Banagricola. In a short space of time he has already been involved in the opening of a new $55m operations centre for Banco Agricola and provided training courses covering general management skills, ethics and innovative design thinking. After starting his career with a four year stint as a legal counsel at Banco Cuscatlán, Machuca took his first major in-house role in 1997 at Banco de Comercio. After its merger with Scotiabank, in a deal worth $180m, he became legal director of the newly formed Scotiabank El Salvador Group in 2005, spending almost a decade in the role before taking up his current position. He played a key role at Scotiabank El Salvador Group, facilitating its acquisitions of Guatemalan bank Banco de Antigua in 2006 and Costa Rica’s Interfin Financial Group a year later. Other notable roles during Machuca’s career have been spells as: a law professor at José Matías Delgado University (1995-2009); a member of the Board of Directors at the Central Bank of El Salvador (2009-2010); and secretary to the president of El Salvador for legal and legislative matters (2009-2010).