Chile’s Salmon Council has reported that Guillermo Turner will head up the organization beginning in December, replacing Executive President Loreto Seguel who announced in August she will be stepping down after four years at the helm.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Turner is a journalist and business advisor on strategy, communications, sustainability, and community relations.
Between 2016 and 2025, he was in charge of the corporate affairs and sustainability management of Empresas CMPC – one of the world's leading forestry, pulp, and paper companies with operations across Latin America and the U.S.
Turner also has more than 25 years of experience working for various media outlets, having served as director of La Tercera, Diario Financiero, Capital magazine, and a newspaper called Pulso he founded in 2011. Further, he is the former president of the National Press Association (ANP) and the Federation of Social Communication Media of Chile.
The Salmon Council said that challenges Turner will face in the role include continuing to develop strategies aimed at strengthening a sector agenda focused on competitiveness, sustainability, and regulatory modernization, with an emphasis on conditions to drive investment, employment, and salmon-farming expansion.
The council’s board of directors thanked Seguel for her commitment and leadership during a stage of strategic definition and institutional consolidation of the council.
It recognized that during Seguel's administration, the council strengthened dialogue with authorities, including parliamentarians and representatives of different political and productive sectors.
Among the initiatives undertaken by the council during Seguel’s leadership, the board particularly recognized the AgroSalmon Alliance, under which the Salmon Council aims to strengthen the relationship between agriculture and salmon-farming operations in the country by sourcing local agriculture products for salmon feed.
Turner now heads an organization that represents six salmon-farming firms – AquaChile, Australis, Cermaq, Mowi, Ventisqueros, and Salmones Aysén – which together produce more than half of Chile’s farmed salmon.
