Ignacio joined Hochschild in 1992 and, prior to his appointment as CEO in April 2010, he served as General Manager of the Peruvian operations and as the Group's Chief Operating Officer from January 2008. Between 1998 and 2003 Ignacio worked as Chief Financial Officer of Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A., a company he subsequently became a Director of between 2003 and 2007. Subsequently, Ignacio worked for Zemex Corporation, a subsidiary of Cementos Pacasmayo, based in Atlanta, Georgia, serving first as CFO and Vice President of Business Development and later as its President. Ignacio holds a BSc in Business and a BSc in Accounting from Universidad del Pacifico in Peru and an MBA from Stanford University.
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