Has served as our Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer since April 18, 2013. He was appointed Treasurer of the Company on April 28, 2016. He was our Comptroller from October 27, 2011 to April 18, 2013. He has held various positions focused primarily on financial planning, treasury, corporate finance, investor relations and project evaluation with the Company since 1992. In September 2011, he was appointed Director of Controller and Finance of the Company’s Peruvian Branch and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Southern Peru Limited, one of our subsidiaries. In 2021, Mr. Jacob was ranked by Institutional Investor as the top Chief Financial Officer in the Latin America mining industry and from 2014 to 2020, he was ranked four times among the top three CFOs in Latin America. Mr. Jacob was President of the Peruvian National Mining, Oil and Energy Association from January 2021 to January 2023 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of this Association. Mr. Jacob is a member of the Consulting Board of the MBA program of the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. He was President of the Strategic Studies Center of IPAE, an entrepreneurial association from February 2007 to March 2010. From 2004 to 2006, he was the President of the Finance Affairs Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru. Mr. Jacob holds an economics degree from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, a Degree in International Business Management from the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden and a Senior Manager Degree from the Instituto de Empresa Business School (IE) in Madrid, Spain.