Career Biography

Alex has served as director of legal and corporate affairs for Microsoft Chile and Perú since 2006. He leads all legal, regulatory and corporate affairs strategy across both markets, overseeing commercial transactions, compliance and corporate governance, government relations, philanthropy and public communications.

He began his career in private practice at Rosenberg & Breitling, Abogados, advising corporate clients on labor, commercial and consumer protection matters and representing leading Chilean retailers in litigation. From 1999 to 2006 he served as Senior Attorney and Deputy Director of ChileCompra, the national public procurement agency, where he co-authored Public Procurement Law No. 19,886 and its implementing regulations, the foundation of the country’s electronic government purchasing system, and served as Legislative Advisor to the Ministry of Finance before Congress from 2000 to 2002.

Among his principal achievements, Alex played a pivotal role in the launch of Chile Central, Microsoft’s first cloud data center region in the country, inaugurated in June 2025. He coordinated government engagement, regulatory alignment and stakeholder messaging for a USD 3.3 billion, four-year investment, the largest in Chile’s technology history, now positioned as a strategic national asset for data residency and digital sovereignty.

He has had a sustained influence on Chile’s technology legislation, contributing to the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Law and the Cybersecurity Framework Law, appearing before congressional committees on behalf of ACTI, and leading Microsoft Chile’s accreditation as an Operator of Vital Importance, including incident-reporting protocols. He also secured Microsoft’s inclusion in Chile’s national framework agreements for software licensing and cloud services, enabling broad public sector adoption of Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot and Teams.

Alex is a recognised voice on artificial intelligence governance in Latin America. He has advised on Chile’s AI bill, participated in APEC Lima 2024, and led Microsoft’s digital justice agenda with courts and academic institutions across the region, work for which he received Microsoft Global Affairs’ Pathfinder Award in January 2026. He was a finalist for The Legal 500 In-House Lawyer of the Year (Chile) in 2025. As Regional Cybersecurity Champion for Latin America he has driven initiatives on cyber defense, digital safety, election integrity and child protection, and has designed digital skills programs with government partners, including training for 2,000 underserved individuals through Chile’s FOSIS agency.

He has served on the legal group of the Chilean Association of Information Technology Companies (ACTI) since 2013 and is engaged in AmCham Perú’s regulatory affairs work. He is an adjunct professor in the graduate diploma program on personal data protection and artificial intelligence at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and was Academic Coordinator of the Technology and Law Center at Universidad de Chile from 2011 to 2016. He holds an LL.M. in Constitutional Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1999) and an LL.B. from Universidad de Chile (1995), and is admitted to the Chilean Bar.