Alberto Salas serves as Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Salas is a mining entrepreneur, currently Chairman of Chile’s SQM S.A. and Chairman of the National Institute of Professional Training (INACAP), Chile’s largest higher education and training institute. He is also a director of Minera Valle Central, CAP Mineria and ENAEX S. A.; President of the Mining Engineers Foundation of the University of Chile; President of the Chilean Pacific Foundation; President of the Inter-American Mining Society and President of the Latin American Mining Organization. In Chile, Mr. Salas served as a director of Teck’s Quebrada Blanca Mining Company and Teck’s Carmen de Andacollo Mining Company, the National Mining Company (ENAMI) and the National Petroleum Company (ENAP). He is a former member of the APEC Business Advisory Council.
Mr. Salas is a Mining Civil Engineer from the University of Chile with post-graduate studies in Corporate Finance from the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile.
