Kalidas Madhavpeddi
Kalidas Madhavpeddi
Director since 2021
Chair of the Human Capital Committee, Member of the Audit Committee and Member of the Sustainability Committee
Mr. Kalidas Madhavpeddi has 40 years of international experience in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, government relations, marketing, mining engineering and capital. He is currently the President of Azteca Consulting LLC, an advisory firm to the metals and mining sector. From 2010 to 2018 he was CEO of China Molybdenum International, a privately held company and global producer of copper, gold, cobalt, phosphates, niobium and molybdenum. His extensive career in the mining industry includes over 25 years at Phelps Dodge Corporation (“Phelps Dodge”), a Fortune 500 company, starting as a Systems Engineer and ultimately becoming Senior Vice President for Phelps Dodge, and contemporaneously the President of Phelps Dodge Wire & Cable. Mr. Madhavpeddi currently serves as a director and Chair of Glencore, and is a director of NovaGold Resources Inc. and Trilogy Metals Inc. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; the University of Iowa and the Harvard Business School.