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Management
Sarah Armstrong-Montoya
President & Chief Executive OfficerMs. Armstrong-Montoya has held various senior management positions within the Ivanhoe group of companies since she joined in 2010. She was appointed as Vice President, General Counsel of the Company in 2016 and in June 2018 also appointed as President of subsidiary Minerales Cordoba S.A.S., managing all in-country operations in Colombia. Ms. Armstrong-Montoya has a legal background and previously worked at Xstrata Copper, Linklaters and Corrs Chambers Westgarth. She has extensive experience in emerging markets having directed many transactions throughout Asia-Pacific and Latin America, furthermore, she is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
Peter Portka
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate DevelopmentMr. Portka has extensive experience as a senior financial and corporate development executive, having worked for a variety of organizations in the mining sector, including most recently as Chief Financial Officer at NorZinc Ltd., and Vice President of Finance at Quintana Resources Capital, a streaming and royalty division of a U.S. based multi-billion private equity fund. Mr. Portka holds professional designations in both Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Professional Accountant.
Mark Gibson
Chief Operating OfficerMr. Gibson has more than 31 years' wide-ranging experience as a geoscientist and manager in the natural resources sector. In addition to his role with Cordoba, Mr. Gibson holds the position of Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Electric, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer of Kaizen Discovery, Inc. He previously worked with Anglo American and was the founder of a geophysical service company focused on managing seismic surveys for the mining industry. Mr. Gibson graduated from the University of Southampton in 1990 with a BSc (Hons) in Geology and the University of Leeds in 1997 with a MSc in Geophysics.
Gustavo Zulliger
Vice President of ExplorationMr. Zulliger, who is based in Argentina, specializes in exploration of porphyry copper and epithermal systems in South America's high-Andes region. As an exploration geologist, Mr. Zulliger has more than 22 years of experience in mineral exploration, project generation, and project evaluation in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Russia, and Mongolia. Mr. Zulliger was most recently Chief Geologist, Exploration, South America, for Antofagasta Minerals SA. He previously was Principal Geoscientist for BHP Billiton Minerals Exploration, and Chief Geologist for Resolution Copper. Mr. Zulliger also has worked with Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, and with Osisko Mining. He obtained a B.Sc. in Geology from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina.
Charles Forster
Qualified Person for Perseverance ProjectMr. Forster is a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with more than 45 years of diversified mineral exploration experience in Canada, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Portugal, China, and Mongolia. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Exploration at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia for Ivanhoe Mines (now Turquoise Hill Resources) from early 2001 to June 2008. During this time, he led a team of multi-national and Mongolian geologists in the discovery and delineation of the world-class Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit. The discovery of the massive, high-grade Hugo Dummett underground deposit at Oyu Tolgoi was subsequently recognized by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, which in 2004 named Mr. Forster a co-recipient of the inaugural Thayer Lindsley Medal awarded for the International Discovery of the Year.