Soledad Saieh

[1] She studied commercial engineering [es] at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[2] She began her career working in various executive positions in her father's companies, serving as director at Clínica Las Condes [es], executive president of the CorpVida group, and director of corporate social responsibility at CorpGroup Inmobiliaria.

[3] In 2002 she co-founded the CorpArtes Foundation, devoting herself fully to cultural management and serving as its executive director for seven years.

She spearheaded the creation of the Santiago International Film Festival (where she acted as a patron for debuting directors such as filmmaker Pablo Larraín, whom she supported to finance and disseminate his film Fuga) and the Chile Arte Contemporáneo international art fair (Ch.ACO), which launched in 2009 in Santiago, along with gallery owners Irene Abujatum, Elodie Fulton, and Florencia Loewenthal.

[5] Soledad Saieh died on 29 August 2017, her 45th birthday, due to acute pulmonary edema that caused an infarction.