Volcan is a company committed to the principles of Good Corporate Governance, permanently seeking to raise the professional level of each of its organizational units in order to improve the efficiency of its processes and the transparency of information shared with the Company’s stakeholders.
Volcan began mining operations as Volcan Mines in the heights of the Ticlio pass on January 26th, 1943. In 1975, the Company changed its name to Volcan Compañía Minera S.A. In 1998, after the merger with Empresa Minera Paragsha S.A., the Company’s name changed once again to Volcan Compañía Minera S.A.A.
The Company is engaged in the exploration, production, and processing of its own ore and ore from subsidiaries that carry out extraction, concentration, treatment, and commercialization of all products and concentrates.
Year of birth: 1954
Gender: Male
Director and member of the Executive Committee since March 1996. Vice chairman of the Board of Directors, and chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee since April 2010. Mr. Picasso is also chairman of the Board of Reactivos Nacionales S.A., vice chairman of the Board of Compañía Minera Poderosa, and member of the following boards: Bodegas Vista Alegre and Cemento Polpaico S.A. He previously served as vice chairman of Embotelladora Latinoamericana S.A.A. (Coca-Cola) and member of the boards of Compañía Minera Atacocha S.A., EXSA S.A., Castrovirreyna Compañía Minera, Compañía Molinera del Perú, Compañía de Seguros La Fénix Peruana S.A., Bolsa de Valores de Lima, and Acción Comunitaria.
Year of birth: 1970
Gender: Male
Member of the Board of Directors since 1993 and vice chairman of the Board since September 2014. He is a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. De Romaña worked in the sales division of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura from 1992 to 1999 and was the head of Volcan’s sales division from 2000 to 2010. He also served as member of the boards of Castrovirreyna Compañía Minera S.A. and Corporación Minera Castrovirreyna from 2002 to 2012. Mr. De Romaña holds a business administration degree from Universidad del Pacífico. He is the son of the director Irene Letts Colmenares de De Romaña.
Year of birth: 1960
Gender: Male
Director since July 2020. He has been President and CEO of Compañía Minera Antamina from 2010 to 2020, President and CEO of Compañía Minera Milpo from 2001 to 2010 and President and CEO of Siderperu from 1996 to 2001.
Mr. Chahuan, with 35 years of experience in the metallurgical mining sector, began his career at Southern Peru Copper Corporation, he has been vice president of the Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petroleo y Energía del Perú, director of the Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas del Perú in four periods and president of the Perumin 2013. Mr. Chahuan is candidate for a PhD in international finance from the Universidad de Cataluña, postgraduate at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Metallurgical Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín.
Year of birth: 1985
Gender: Male
Director since July 2020. He is Executive Vice President of Volcan Compañía Minera S.A.A. since 2018. Mr. Fernandez worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays-New York and in 2009 joined Glencore. In the Glencore group he has worked in Sinchi Wayra-Bolivia and Los Quenuales-Peru. In 2013, he was appointed Asset Manager of South America for the Zinc Department and has served as Investor Relations Manager of the Glencore group between 2015 and 2017. Mr. Fernandez has a Bachelor of Mathematics from Yale University of the United States of North America.
Year of birth: 1970
Gender: Male
Director since July 2020. He has worked in the Glencore group since 1992, initially as a trader in the Zinc Department in London, then in Moscow and finally in Switzerland. He was in charge of the purchase of Kazzinc, in Kazakhstan. He was CEO and Chairman of Kazzinc. Today Mr. Popovic leads the commercial and foundries side of the Zinc Department worldwide at Glencore. Mr. Popovic has a Bachelor and Master of Economics from Cambridge University in England.
Year of birth: 1959
Gender: Male
Director since November 2019. Mr. Revoredo is a Business Consultant, with a degree in Business Administration and postgraduate studies in Capital Markets. He has been Manager of Economic Studies of the Bolsa de Valores de Lima S.A. and Director of CAVALI ICLV.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Compañía Minera Poderosa S.A., Compañía Minera San Ignacio de Morococha S.A. and of the Bolsa de Valores de Lima S.A. Additionally, he is Director of Proyectos Médicos S.A. and Member of the Advisory Council of the Facultad de Administración y Finanzas Corporativas of the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola.
Year of birth: 1970
Gender: Female
Director since November 2017. Before joining the Glencore Group in 2010, Mrs. Soyer worked for 7 years at Tyco International in the USA in different positions, the last of them being Director of Finance. She is also a director an Textil del Valle, Perubar and Transportadora Callao. Mrs. Soyer is a Business Administrator from Universidad del Pacífico and has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Management.
These committees are responsible for decision-making and management of the following economic, social, and environmental aspects. There ares two types of strategic committees: Board committees are made up of Company directors, while operational committees are comprised of Company executives.
The Executive Committee studies and resolves matters entrusted to it by the Board of Directors except for the rendering of accounts, awarding provisional dividend distributions, the presentation of financial statements to the anual obligatory General Meeting of Shareholders, and specific powers granted by the General Board to the Board of Directors in compliance with Article 38 of the statute.
The members are:
The Audit Committee supports the management of an adequate compliance with the Company’s standards of Corporate Governance. The committee monitors the Company’s compliance with the strategic management of corporate risks, therefore guaranteeing the existence of an adequate internal control system.
The members are:
The Human Resource Committee ensures that the Company maintains an organizational structure in accordance with the needs of the business, promoting meritocracy and encouraging the professional development of the Company’s executive staff.
The members are:
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The Social Responsibility Committee defines annual objectives and improvement initiatives on community, environment, safety and occupational health issues.
The members are: