Manuel EchevarrÍa is a professional engineer with 34 years’ of experience in the mining industry, fluent in both English and Spanish, and has many years of career history throughout Latin America. Mr. EchevarrÍa worked as a project engineer from 1983 to 1989 for P&V Engineers on a major underground mine expansion for Milpo in Peru, then moved to Fima SA where he designed plant equipment until 1992. Subsequently, he was the Engineering Manager for SNC Lavalin, and held project management roles in Bechtel, Svedala, Requisite Technology, Pan American, Fluor and Ausenco until 2010, working on large mine and plant projects such as Tamboraque, Tintaya, Pierina, Santa Luisa, Cajamarquilla, Iscaycruz, Ares, Antamina, Morococha, Cerro Verde, Oyu Tolgoi, Fort Hills, Escondida and others. From 2010 to 2015, Manuel was the Project Manager of the Toromocho project for Chinalco and General Manager of Cal del Centro (Chinalco’s subsidiary) and since 2013, he has been Director of Gold Projects for Ma’aden in charge of developing the Mansorah Mansourah and Ad Duwayhi gold mine projects in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. EchevarrÍa graduated with a B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering in 1984 from the National University of Engineering in Lima Peru and received an MBA from IE Business School in Spain in 2007.