Andrew Cox
President, CEO & Non-Independent Director
Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for the introduction. This is the cut-down version of the Rio2 corporate presentation. The cover photo you can see there is the Fenix Gold ADR plant during some of the recent storm events that we’ve experienced in Northern Chile. I’ll delve into that a little bit more as we go through the presentation.
Our company disclaimer, you can look that up on the corporate website presentation if you really want to read it, included as needs to be required. I’d just like to start with our team because our team is very important to us, and there’s two aspects to that, that we’d like to reflect the first one is before Rio2 there was a Rio1. Rio1 was Rio Alto Mining, which operated in Peru from 2011 through 2015. We built and operated 2 heap leach gold mines, La Arena and Shahuindo, and that was subsequently purchased or taken out by Tahoe Resources at end of 2015. And effectively, 80% of the people who are now in the Rio2 experience come from that previous history. So there’s an 11-year history of a lot of these people including the directors, most of them were there too.
And the second point, I guess, we’d like to make is that we’re a very Lima-based company. Our management and technical offices are located in Lima, Peru and the management team is pretty much entirely Peruvian. So we’re a little bit different from your average company. The corporate office effectively is in Lima. We have a small presence in Vancouver with our financial team who worked from home. And recently, we’ve transitioned from being a developer into
