Our Team

General Outline

Susana Sierra is a Chilean businesswoman and entrepreneur, recognized in the compliance industry for her work and professional experience in integrity, anti-corruption, transparency, development of organizational culture, and implementation and the promotion of good practices within companies.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) recognized her as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2020.

Professional Career

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree as a Commercial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she also obtained her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

She is a partner and CEO of BH Compliance, a pioneering firm that uses a technological platform to measure the effectiveness of corporate crime prevention programs. Her experience and knowledge are vast and diverse, having worked with companies in virtually every market, regulated or not, both in Chile and abroad, successfully promoting the value of a culture of doing things right.

Currently, she is Director of the Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Chile), where she is also Chair of the Corporate Governance and Compliance Committee; Director of the Financial & International Business Association (FIBA), an international banking association that includes prominent companies in the financial world; and member of Forbes Business Council, one of the most important networking organizations for entrepreneurs and leaders. Regarding the latter, she serves as a columnist for Forbes.

Between 2016 and 2022, she was a member of the board of the Chilean chapter of Transparency International, Chile Transparente, serving as President between 2020 and 2022, and Co-Chair of a high-level commission responsible for defining Transparency International’s strategy for 2030.

In addition, from May 2018 to May 2022, she was a member of the board of Correos de Chile S.A., putting into practice her knowledge of Corporate Governance and highlighting the importance of integrity as a fundamental value.

She also has interesting experience in the field of entrepreneurship. She is a director and founder of the Independízate Foundation, a civil society organization whose objective is to provide methodological support to entrepreneurs in various fields, mostly professionals who have decided to work for themselves and require support in their business models in a competitive environment and demanding market.

Throughout her professional career, she has received numerous awards, such as being one of the “100 Women Leaders” of El Mercurio and Women Entrepreneurs in 2015 and 2022; being the first Latin American woman to win the “Women in Compliance Awards” 2018, in the “Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Compliance Industry” category; and being chosen in March 2020 as one of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum (WEF), whose objective is to work on the leadership of these young people to advance towards a sustainable future.

In the academic world, from 2014 to 2020, she was co-director of the Compliance and Corporate Best Practices Diploma at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), where she continues to teach today. In addition, she is a part-time professor of Commercial Engineering at PUC, the MBA UC, the University of Los Andes, and the Fraud Diploma at the University of Chile.

At the same time, she is an academic in the Master in Compliance at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain, the Executive Program in Ethics and Compliance LATAM 2021 in Argentina, and a professor at the Pacific University and Catholic University in Peru.

She regularly participates in seminars, congresses, and talks related to the topic of compliance, organizational culture, and good practices within companies, both in Chile and abroad. She is also a regular columnist in Voces de La Tercera and El Mostrador in Chile, and in Forbes and Daily Business Review, through which she disseminates her opinion on current issues related to corruption and organizational culture.

Currently, she is based in the United States, leading the expansion of BH Compliance, in order to offer diagnostic and monitoring services for compliance programs in transnational companies with subsidiaries in Latin America.