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| Pablo Orsolani Position: Director Mr. Orsolani has 28 years experience in international business, spanning the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America. Mr. Orsolani started his career as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc. U.S.A., later taking positions in marketing, planning, finance and general management in several industries, including commodities (aluminum, nickel and oil) and specialty chemicals (industrial gases, paint). Mr. Orsolani was the Chief Financial Officer of a nickel project owned by Jordex Resources, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company, which was sold to Anglo American for $65 million. The project is now a producing nickel mine in Venezuela. Mr. Orsolani was also the President of an industrial gas company that had over 400 employees and had an investment program in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Orsolani has served as a member of the board of directors of a United States based aluminum extrusion company (with sales of $250 million), and a primary aluminum company with sales of $400 million. He was also a board member of an electric utility with 13,000 MW of installed capacity. Mr. Orsolani holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; he also holds two masters' degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an MBA from the Sloan School and also a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Orsolani is fluent in English and Spanish. |
