CEO MONTHLY / AUGUST 2026 9 AIM-May26322 peaking of her success as CEO and President, Pilar told us: “I continue to inject Grupo CORIS Latam with projects, possibilities, and opportunities through a career that, although full of great challenges and efforts, has also had great achievements.” However, Pilar’s career is rich in experience, change, and opportunity. She added: “My business, corporate, and personal experience began from a very young age.” As an entrepreneur from the age of 13, Pilar is no stranger to working hard or starting new endeavours. Over the years, she experienced various sales and improvised businesses, some of which were successful and others somewhat unsuccessful, that eventually led her to solidifying her working life at 16 years old. She took this initial leap into full-time employment at her mother’s insurance brokerage office, just a day after finishing school, where she remained for a few months. Once Pilar had turned 17 years old, her mother secured a role for her as a receptionist which officially marked the beginning of Pilar’s corporate life within insurance companies. Over time, she worked her way through different multinational insurance companies, such as ACE Insurance where she transitioned into commercial activity as an insurance sales representative, dedicating herself to consistent professional and personal development each day. From there, Pilar was assigned a commercial management role at ACE Insurance before taking on a commercial area manager role at one of the largest insurance companies in the world, American International Group (AIG). Following these stepping stones, in 2001 and at the age of 23, Pilar became National Director of Personal Insurance. She ended up holding this position for four years before she “felt a call to rest and went on a sabbatical year to open a beach bar in Mexico.” Although this was something Pilar thoroughly enjoyed exploring at the time, she began feeling her professional career in the corporate landscape wasn’t complete. “It wasn’t long until I realised that I still had a few decades before living that lifestyle, so I returned to corporate life the following year,” said Pilar. This break came to an end when she was rehired by AIG, and 2006 saw her expatriated to Argentina, where she held highly respected executive positions. Pilar added: “I became the first woman in 60 years to be part of the executive committee, going through many adversities in a world traditionally led by men.” Although the Grupo CORIS Latam is a pioneering travel assistance company with an unwavering presence in more than six countries in its region. Pilar Lozano has stood at the helm of the business since 2012, working tirelessly as CEO and President to guide the organisation to even higher levels of success. We learn more from Pilar as she is bestowed with these monumental accolades in our Most Influential CEO Awards 2026. S insurance and tourism sector has historically been male dominated, over the years this landscape has been shifting, and Pilar’s catalytic contributions those years ago continue to have an impact on the sphere. This doesn’t just mean progression for Pilar herself, but it has also made it easier for other women to carve out a path for themselves in what was once seen as a male-led sector. Speaking of her work over these critical moments in her career, Pilar enthused: “In these companies I had the opportunity to receive many and diverse highperformance trainings directly at their headquarters in New York and in different parts of the world, which provided me with the strategic and business vision I have today. There I had matrix reporting lines to regional and global structures.” Atop Pilar’s experience within the world of work, she has also completed different postgraduate degrees, master’s degrees, and courses at various universities, feeding herself with all the technical knowledge necessary for a highly successful corporate life in strategy and business. She has a professional degree in Marketing with a Concentration in Financial Project Evaluation; Postgraduate Degree in Senior Management with a Concentration in Financial Project Evaluation; and a Postgraduate Degree in PyMEs Senior Management, finance, digital technologies and databases, AI and Quantum Management. Moreover, equipped with experience from a humanistic perspective, Pilar has undergone courses in Business Anthropology, holds a Master’s Degree in Intelligence for Happiness, she is a certified coach and with a Holistic Master’s Degree which also allows her to deliver Family Constellations services. Throughout her years of dedication to personal and professional development, Pilar has also participated in ½ Ironman and 100K cycling competitions as a passionate advocate of high performance, but also continues to reach higher year upon year. She added: “Recently I have written my first book, which is currently in the process of publication, ‘The Journey of Being: Tools to Design and Enjoy the Present You Have, Manifest the Future You Desire, Healing the Past, and Elevating Your Level of Consciousness,’ which provides different tools for human evolution, from healing one’s personal and family history, to finding and defining a life purpose, being able to manifest it, and finding tools for a good life with oneself and with those around them, contributing empathy for others to the world.” Linking Pilar’s own personal and professional growth to this award-winning business, Grupo CORIS Latam, we are delighted to explore exactly what is on offer from this leading Latin American company. Pilar commented: “our mission is to provide peace of mind, protection, and confidence to travelers throughout the region by maintaining the highest Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards for passengers, with worldwide medical coverage and 24/7 personalized assistance, fulfilling the promise of loyalty and a permanent value proposition to the B2B distribution channel and travel agencies. “Our mantra is to maintain a strong, proprietary, and personalized service offering, generating well-being within the channel and serving as a benchmark for tourism with ongoing support to the industry, with resources inspired to achieve personal and professional growth.” “We simultaneously and actively contribute to the strengthening and technological transformation of the entire tourism industry value chain in every country where we operate, understanding what the sector represents in terms of
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