About

Mario Martínez is legal director at Grupo Roble, the real estate division of Grupo Poma, a prominent El Salvador-based conglomerate. He has worked for the Poma Group for nearly 40 years, serving as legal director of the Latin American region (which, at Grupo Roble, covers 10 countries) for the last 17 years. Martínez has 30 people that report into him, covering all areas within Grupo Roble including administrative, financial, architecture, engineering and marketing. Martínez retains a very close relationship with other senior members of the company, and acts as a board member. Martínez has taken a guiding role in creating a model that can be replicated throughout the region, so that the same rules can be applied across each country with minor modifications. He has always been passionate about refining his legal skillset: ‘During my studies I joined a court of civil and commercial working for space and more than three years later concluded with my learning cycle in the courts, I joined Grupo Poma to assist in legal claims and all divisions of the Group’. In January 2017 Martínez left Grupo Roble to became a partner at Benjamín Valdez & Asociados, a law firm that specialises in corporate-financial legal services in El Salvador.