About

Jorge M. Meneses is a corporate lawyer with more than 14 years of experience in leading international companies in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region with multidisciplinary knowledge focused on risk prevention and creation of competitive advantages. He started his career at Liberty Seguros and Liberty Seguros de Vida, where he developed in different roles in the legal department. He served as corporate governance director and compliance officer from 2003 to 2010 before assuming the role of legal head of Delima Marsh Colombia heading its legal and risk department, including the other subsidiaries of the group. Versed in corporate, commercial, insurance and reinsurance law and a leader of legal and compliance matters in the LAC region, Meneses is able to work with diverse functional areas by leading innovative processes, acquisitions, divestments and restructures on a local and international level. As part of his role, he leads the legal teams in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami at Guy Carpenter. Meneses is also responsible for the direction of business critical legal and compliance priorities, and strategies related to data privacy, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, trade sanctions, trademarks and licenses among other matters, including the implementation of new laws and regulations. He has also directed the implementation and standardisation of the corporate governance model across the region. Meneses also provides and identifies liability exposure assessments and functional solutions to manage and reduce risk, and is responsible for the direction and implementation of the corporate governance structure across the LAC region as well as the legal representative for jurisdictional matters of the company across the region. Meneses has deep knowledge of the insurance industry, due to his experience working at insurance companies and insurance and reinsurance Brokers. He has also participated as a speaker in seminaries organised by the Association Colombiana de Derecho de Seguros (ACOLDESE) and the Association Colombiana de Aseguradoras (FASECOLDA). From the corporate compliance perspective, he has more than 10 years of experience working as a compliance officer, leading the development and implementation of anti-money laundering compliance programs. Furthermore, as part of his role as corporate lawyer, he has provided direction to high-level executives with respect to the participation at critical shareholder and board of directors meetings. He says that he ‘defines himself as a proactive professional, focused on the optimisation of processes across the company. As a manager, I encourage my team to pursue the excellence in terms on engagement, operational excellence, quality and ethics’.