LATAM
The Mining Innovation Network is pleased to have such an accomplished list of Advisory Board members, including:
Carmen Vega Cancino
Operational Excellence Manager
Minera Los Pelambres
Ingeniera Civil Industrial con más de 12 años de experiencia en grandes empresas mineras, nacionales y multinacionales. Liderazgo de equipos de trabajo interdisciplinarios y multiculturales, en proyectos estratégicos con foco en mejoramiento, captura y sostenibilidad de valor para el negocio. Experiencia en excelencia operacional, estrategia, gestión del cambio, desarrollo organizacional, entre otros.
Javier Ruiz del Solar
Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering
Universidad de Chile
He is an electrical engineer graduated from Federico Santa María University. He also has a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Federico Santa María University and a PH.D. in engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. His areas of expertise and research interests are robotics, automation, computer vision, and mining technologies.
Gonzalo Montes-Atenas
Associate Professor/Head of the Department of Mining Engineering
Universidad de Chile
Gonzalo Montes-Atenas es Ingeniero Civil Químico de la Universidad de Chile. Obtuvo un Ph.D. en Geociencias en el Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Francia (2004). Actualmente es director del Departamento de Ingeniería de Minas. El área de investigación incluye todo lo relativo a química y física de superficies. Ha trabajado en la industria de surfactantes en Chile. Realizó 2 postdoctorados en The University of Manchester, Inglaterra (2006-2008) en el área de espumas y operación de reactores nucleares. Trabajó también en Julius Kruttschitts Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC), Australia, en el área de flotación, participando en numerosas campañas a sitios mineros dentro y fuera de Australia. Autor y co-autor de publicaciones científicas en revistas nacionales, internacionales y congresos.
Sandrine Moura
Sr Global Manager of Change Management and Digital Transformation
Vale
I am constantly curious about innovation, transformation and new technologies applied to the organizational context and I chose to help build better businesses through innovation and positively impact the people while doing so. I have a Business Management and Software development background, specialize in Innovation Management and Strategic Planning. I have been working for over 10 years in organizational transformations, managing and supporting transformation through complex programs and projects in the following areas of technology – people and processes, transformation projects, Lean leadership and innovation management.
Dr. Cristián Carrasco
Regional Manager Operational Excellence and Technology Transformation, Americas
Glencore Copper
+10 years leading transformation through applied R&D, Operational Excellence and Technology. Currently leading, mining autonomy and electrification, digital and Analytics and resource engineering technologies. Cristián, has a PhD in Mineral Resource optimization, Mphil in Geometallurgy and MSc mineral processing. He is regarded as subject matter expert in Mine to mill optimization and coarse preconcentration technologies.
Carlos Cotera Avellaneda
General Manager
Compañía Minera Antapaccay, Glencore
Carlos Cotera Avellaneda – CIP 187120 is the General Manager of Compañía Minera Antapaccay S. A., great mining company, copper concentrate producer, which has its operations in the southern region of Peru, being responsible of 8% of the national copper production in 2021.
Carlos is a mining engineer, with wide experience leading important mining-metalurgical complexes at the national and international levels, with focus on developing the maximum potential of people and mining assets under his responsibility, permanently looking for the construction of sustainable mining businesses.