Petroperú confirmed this week the “irrevocable” resignation of its directors José Antonio Olivares Canchari and Brigitt Bruna Bencich Aguilar. Through a fact of high importance before the Superintendence of the Stock Market (SMV), the oil company also announced the appointment of the new general manager, engineer Herbert Manuel Goñas Aguilar.
The president of the Petroperú board of directors, Pedro Chira, had announced this week to La República that the corporate governance agreements for the restructuring of the company were successfully adopted. The two outgoing independent directors were chosen at the time by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
For this reason, the replacements for Olivares Canchari and Bencich Aguilar will be the first in this new stage for the company who will be chosen by competition “in a planned period of between two and three months”, in compliance with DU 023-2022.
“We have made progress in terms of governance in improving how to choose the Board of Directors. Now, it will be with a headhunter and the job profiles that are needed are already in place. The contest will be totally independent and the directors will no longer be chosen by Minem and MEF, like it was before. We will go out to the market to look for the best professionals,” said Chira Fernández.
Petroperú’s objective is to clean up the company for its first public offering of shares around the year 2025. The stake that it plans to give up ranges between 20% and 30%.
In the case of the general management of the state company, Goñas Aguilar replaces Gaspar Díaz Tello, who as of January 3 will return to his previous position as corporate manager of the state company. Talara Refineryas manager.
The data
Parity. Two of the six directors of Petroperu They will be women, according to the new scheme.
Position. Petroperú hopes to recover a 33% market share before the end of the summer of 2024.
Source: Larepublica
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