Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) ("Ecopetrol" or the "Company", and Ecopetrol and its subsidiaries, the "Ecopetrol Group") informs that the following changes will be made in its senior management:
- Walter Fabián Canova, who has been serving as Vice President of Refining and Industrial Processes, will perform his duties until January 15, 2025 and will terminate his employment contract by mutual agreement, after working at the Company for more than seven years.
- Felipe Trujillo López, current Vice President of Commercial and Marketing, will serve as Vice President of Refining and Industrial Processes until a permanent appointment is made.
Felipe is an Industrial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a Specialist in Strategic Marketing from CESA and holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Los Andes. He has 25 years of experience in commercial and marketing positions, of which 20 years have been in the oil and gas industry in the areas of marketing, commercialization, evaluation and structuring of new businesses.
He has held different positions in Ecopetrol, including Commercial and Marketing Vice President, National Marketing Manager, Petrochemicals and Industrials Manager, New Business Manager, Gas Manager and Products and Petrochemicals Manager. In this last role, he was in charge of the marketing and trading of the fuels and petrochemicals and industrial products that Ecopetrol produces in its refineries and that it commercializes in the national and international markets.
Julio César Herrera will serve as Vice President of Commercial and Marketing in charge as of January 15, 2025 and until a permanent appointment is made.
Julio has more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry as a leader of transformation and growth strategies. He holds an accounting degree from Javeriana University, has studied marketing and sales at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his different roles at ExxonMobile, BP and Ecopetrol, he has participated in various international businesses in the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. In recent years, he has focused in the marketing of crude oil and products in the Americas as General Manager of Ecopetrol US Trading.
Ecopetrol express its gratitude to Walter Fabián Canova for his years of service, his valuable management, the contributions made to the Ecopetrol Group, and wishes him much success in his new professional affairs.