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In 2015 Alfonso Buenaventura Aguilar Calvo assumed the position of corporate legal manager and secretary of the board of Banco Azteca del Perú, the general secretariat of the Fundación Azteca del Perú and the Executive Secretariat of the Salinas Group in Peru. As a testament of his excellent leadership qualities, within the first year of assuming this position, the legal team that he managed obtained second place in Latin America in an internal customer satisfaction survey. ‘This fills me with satisfaction because it means that with the right leadership all teams are able to achieve and improve their results and at the same time satisfy their internal clients’, he says of the achievement. Since then Aguilar has participated in the renegotiation of the insurance commercialisation contracts that Banco Azteca and Elektra had with insurance company RIMAC Seguros and also the elaboration of the first monthly credit contract with special characteristics in Peru for clients with limited economic resources. Approved by the SBS (Superintendency of Banking and Insurance), this is the first time that Banco Azteca has managed to have a contract of this type in all of its operations. Aguilar started his professional career at Wiese Sudameris Bank, which later became Scotiabank Perú. Starting as judicial recovery counsel, he was promoted on several occasions during his 13 years there holding positions such as senior legal counsel, deputy legal manager and finally head of compliance. For four consecutive years at Scotiabank Perú, he obtained along with his team, the Scotia Excellence Awards between 2009 and 2012 for “Best Support Team”. Amongst his most notable achievements, Aguilar takes pride in being selected as a consultant reviewer of reports for World Bank on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) in order to identify opportunities to improve principles and guidelines for effective insolvency and creditor rights systems. ‘This experience allowed me to have contact with highly qualified professionals from different parts of the world, which contributed to enrich my professional experience in multidisciplinary teams’, says Aguilar.