Board of Directors
Victor Matta Curotto
Chairman
Businessman with over 35 years of experience in fishery, food processing and services. Founding partner of Pesquera María del Carmen, Pesquera Alfa and Exalmar (companies that merged giving origin to Pesquera Exalmar S.A.), Complejo Agroindustrial Beta and Empacadora Beta (companies currently merged into Complejo Agroindustrial Beta S.A.), Agrocítricos S.A., Alpine Perú S.A., and Compañía Hotelera El Sausal. Chairman of Pesquera Exalmar S.A., Complejo Agroindustrial Beta S.A., and Corporación Exalmar S.A.
- Name: Víctor Manuel Matta Curotto.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: director titular, dependiente.
- Year of birth: 1943.
Víctor S. Matta Dall’Orso
Vice Chairman
Business Manager graduated from the University of Lima. He worked as Corporate Banking Assistant at Banco de Credito del Peru from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he entered Pesquera Exalmar S.A.A. as Deputy Controller General until 2008. He works as Deputy General Manager since 2010, with functions related to the areas of Fleet Operations, Acquisition of Third-Parties Fishing, and Legal affairs. He is a member of the Board of Pesquera Exalmar since 2015.
- Name: Víctor Santiago Matta DallOrso.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: titular, dependent director.
- Year of birth: 1980.
Cecilia Blume Cillóniz
Director
Lawyer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with studies on Political Science and Public Services Regulation. During her career she has served the State of Peru in the Ministries of Energy and Mines, Economy and Finance, and in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, being Chief of Staff three times. She has been director of several public companies from the electricity sector, Legal Manager of Osinergmin, member of the Indecopi Market Access Commission, director of CONITE, Chairman of the Electricity Legal Committee of SNMPE, and member of the Board of Directors of ProInversion. She worked as a lawyer in the Estudio Echecopar, professor of Business Law and teacher in the Energy Seminar at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, member of the Advisory Board for the Master in Public Management at ESAN university, Universidad Peruana del Norte, member of the Alumni Association Board of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, and Transparencia Civil Association. She is director of several national private companies, and columnist of papers such as El Comercio and Correo. She has been New Zealand Consul in Peru since 2010. Nowadays, she manages CB Consult S.A.C., a firm giving legal and economic consultancy services. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Pesquera Exalmar since 2010.
- Name: María Cecilia Blume Cilloniz.
- Gender: Female.
- Qualification: titular, independent director.
- Year of birth: 1958.
Sergio Rodrigo Sarquis Said
Director
Graduated of commercial engineering from the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez de Chile in 1985. Currently, he is the Executive Chairman of BlumarSeafood. Previously, he was Chairman of Pesquera ITATA S.A., a company specialized in extractive fishing and salmon farming, which merged with Golfo in 2011 giving origin to BlumarSeafood. He is director of the Association of Fishing Industrialists ASIPES A.G. Region VIII, director of Sinergia Inmobiliaria S.A., and director of Agroindustrial Siracusa S.A. He also was Chairman of the Sociedad Nacional de Pesca de Chile – SONAPESCA (National Fisheries Society of Chile) and chief advisor of the National Council of Fisheries (business sector). He has participated in other businesses, such as olive oil industry, in Villa Prat, located in Maule Region – Chile. Likewise, he is also a member of the group of thirty businessmen of the first Business Advisory Council formed by the Universidad del Desarrollo (University for Development) in Chile. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Pesquera Exalmar since 2011.
- Name: Sergio Rodrigo Sarquis Said.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: titular, independent director.
- Year of birth: 1963.
Andrés Muñoz Ramirez
Director
Commercial Engineer in Business Administration from the University of Santiago de Chile in 1986, post-graduated in Administration and Business Management from the University for Development of Chile in 1995. Currently, he is Chairman of Financiera TFC. He worked since 1999 to 2011 at Interbank, being Executive Commercial Vice-President, responsible for opening the Representative Office in China. He developed the Corporate Finance area (Capital Markets and M&A) and was Executive Vice-president of Risks, being responsible for the acquisition of Banco Latino and restructuring the Loan Portfolio of the bank. He has experience in Housing Mortgage area at Interbank and was Director of URBI (Interbank Real Estate Group). Previously, he worked as Risk Manager – Company Admission, at Grupo Santander Peru. In 2008, he participated in KELLOG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, The CEO’S Management (Illinois, July 2008). He was a visiting professor at the School of Economics for the course “Topics on Applied Economy”, at the University of Lima. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Pesquera Exalmar since 2013.
- Name: Andrés Mauricio Muñoz Ramirez.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: titular, independent director.
- Year of birth: 1962.
Martín Ramos Rizo Patrón
Director
Graduated of Science and Electrical Engineering, and Management Science focused on Finance, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also has a Master degree in Electrical and Computing Engineering at that centre of studies. Since 2012 he has worked as investment professional with the international assets manager “The Rohatyn Group (TRG)”, managing the Private Equity Fund LAPEF, and participating in the strategic direction of the companies in his investment portfolio. Previously he was in the team of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking for Latin America Region at the Investment Bank Morgan Stanley, based in New York. Before he belonged to the group of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance, focusing on Technology Sector customers in the American market. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Pesquera Exalmar since December 2015.
- Name: Martín Ramos Rizo Patrón.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: titular, independent director.
- Year of birth: 1980.
Cristian Celis Morgan
Director
Partner and founder of Australis Partners, an independent firm of management of private equity funds, focused on the countries of the Pacific Alliance, México, Colombia, Peru and Chile. Cristián began his career at Citigroup in 1991 as a member of the Corporate Finance team. For 10 years he accumulated valuable experience in M & A transactions and Debt for large Chilean and regional companies, both in local and international capital markets. Since 1998 his career has focused on private equity business. First, he contributed to the development of this business at local level (Chile); then, from 2001, he has been a member of the global private equity platform for emerging markets of Citi -CVCI (Citigroup Venture Capital International). As a part of his professional development in the business of private equity, he has participated in companies from different sectors such as: real-estate and construction, fishmeal and fish oil, non-metallic mining, telecoms and fiber-optic networks, breeding and export of salmon, energy, among others. Cristián is a Commercial Engineer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1991) and obtained a Master in Finance from the London Business School (1996).
- Name: Cristian Celis Morgan.
- Gender: Male.
- Qualification: director titular, independiente.
- Year of birth: 1969.
Board Committees
- OBJECTIVE
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Directors
Víctor Matta Dall’Orso, Cecilia Blume, Rodrigo Sarquis
- President
Rodrigo Sarquis
- OBJECTIVE
Ensure compliance with the principles of Corporate Governance and evaluate actions for the adoption, monitoring and improvement of these practices.
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Evaluation of cases that may cause conflicts with minority shareholders.
- To optimize the strategy for communicating with investors.
- To monitor activities aimed to the dissemination of the standards adopted for Corporate Governance and preparing the Annual Report on Corporate Governance, activities in charge of the responsible of Investor Relations.
- To monitor sources of conflicts of interest among management, directors and shareholders, and to propose mediation actions.
- At least once a year, to validate the condition of independence of the Board members.
- To monitor proper compliance with the Policy of Classification, Management and Dissemination of Information and Internal Rules of Conduct, so that the information is accurate, transparent, equitable, and timely.
- To approve and follow-up the implementation of activities aimed to improve the Corporate Governance of the Company.
- OBJECTIVE
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Directors
Víctor Matta Dall’Orso, Cristian Celis, Martín Ramos
- President
Martín Ramos
- OBJECTIVE
To assist the Board of Directors supervising the compliance with the monitoring responsibilities for:
• Adequate and reliable Financial Statements.
• Audit Process (internal and external).
• Monitoring of Internal control.
• Process of compliance with laws and regulations applicable to the industry.
• Compliance with the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- To support the Board of Directors with an independent report on the audit, both the external and internal.
- To monitor the implementation of the recommendations on the findings identified by the external and internal audit.
- To check the main findings of internal and external audits, and to do recommendations.
- To ensure the independence of judgment for the activity of external and internal audit.
- To monitor the external and internal audit process; to align the work of both to cover all aspects and to avoid duplication.
- To ratify the appointment of the internal auditor annually.
- To select, monitor and dismiss external and internal auditors.
- To monitor the processes of the Company in order to evaluate the inherent business risks.
- To reinforce monitoring processes of the Company.
- OBJECTIVE
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Directors
Víctor Matta Curotto, Víctor Matta Dall’Orso, Cecilia Blume
- President
Cecilia Blume
- OBJECTIVE
Provides support to the Board of Directors in the administration, interpretation and supervision of all remuneration aspects, including compensation, rises, benefits and incentives for key positions and personnel, as well as aspects related to the evaluation of candidates for Board members.
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- To validate the annual analysis of salary structure of the Company versus the market according to the established criteria: sales, sector, industry, etc.
- To monitor the implementation of such policy, salary structure, and compensations.
- To set the profiles required for Board members and Board Committee members.
- Evaluation of candidates for Board members, and designation and remuneration proposal.
- To review and approve the policy, plans and programs of salary structure, as well as compensations and benefits for key positions and personnel.
- OBJECTIVE
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Directors
Víctor Matta Curotto, Rodrigo Sarquis, Andrés Muñoz
- President
Andrés Muñoz
- OBJECTIVE
To do an adequate Integral Risk Management in the Company, ensuring the compliance with risk management initiatives and the construction of an internal environment that facilitates its development.
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- To determine the "risk appetite" and the response to the main risks to which the Company is exposed.
- To review the risk evaluation carried out by the Managers, as well as the management of them.
- To review the evaluation of the Internal Control System of the Company, recommending changes or improvements thereof.
- To evaluate and define the actions to be taken in relation to the recommendations of Internal Control issued by the external auditors as a part of the financial audit.
- To promptly inform the Board on the effectiveness, applicability, and knowledge of the staff about the strategies, policies, processes and procedures established for Integral Risk Management.
- To monitor the implementation of the strategy for Integral Risk Management.
- To define guidelines, policies and structures for Integral Risk Management.
- OBJECTIVE
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- Directors
Martín Ramos, Andrés Muñoz, Cristian Celis
- President
Cristian Celis
- OBJECTIVE
Provides support to the Board in making investment decisions on the financial condition of the company and in compliance with contractual agreements (bonds).
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- To present updated projections of results and their impact on existing contractual arrangements.
- To present proposals and evaluations of investment alternatives.
