Rene Bustamante joins The Doe Run
Company as veteran Louis Magdits IV
announces retirement. Bustamante will lead metal and concentrate
sales, customer service, transportation, raw materials, and
production planning in this role.
ST.
LOUIS, Mo., July 19,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Doe Run Company
(Doe Run) is pleased to
announce that copper industry expert Rene Bustamante has joined the company to
succeed Lou Magdits as vice president of sales and
marketing. In this role, Bustamante will lead metal
and concentrate sales, customer service, transportation, raw
materials, and production planning.
"Rene's industry expertise and strategic
mindset make him a good fit to lead our sales and marketing
team."
Throughout his career, Bustamante has held positions of
successive responsibility with high-profile mining companies, such
as Phelps Dodge Corporation, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold,
and ASARCO. Most recently, Bustamante served as deputy commercial
director of Americas Mining Corporation, Grupo Mexico, where he led
the global copper corporate commercial team with operations in
North America, South America and Europe.
"Rene's industry expertise and strategic mindset make him a good
fit to lead our sales and marketing team," stated Matthew Wohl, president and CEO of Doe Run. "His global experience complements
our commercial footprint as a global supplier of lead, copper and
zinc concentrates and a leading domestic supplier of metal alloys
to the battery industry."
A native of Chile, Bustamante
holds an industrial engineering degree and bachelor's degree in
industrial and business administration from the University of
Chile, a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) from Grand Canyon
University – Business School in Phoenix, and post-graduate certifications from
Thunderbird School of Global Management and the University of Arizona.
Bustamante will work alongside industry veteran Lou Magdits until Magdits retires later this
year, after serving 45 years in the metals industry.
Magdits joined Doe Run's
predecessor in 1991 while the company was converting a primary
smelter in Boss, Missouri, into a
secondary smelter to recycle lead batteries and other lead scrap
into lead metal. During his tenure, Magdits established
Doe Run's supply base for all
lead-bearing materials from a wide variety of sources and
maintained customer relationships with the battery industry and
other lead customers.
About The Doe Run Company
Doe Run is a global supplier
and industry leader providing responsible mining and metal
production in a sustainable and safe manner. Operating one of the
world's largest lead mining districts and one of the largest
single-site lead battery recycling centers, Doe Run's minerals and metals resources
include lead, copper, zinc, cobalt, nickel, antimony, and tin – all
essential in the production of battery energy solutions.
Doe Run has operations in
Missouri, Washington, and Arizona. For more information, visit
www.doerun.com.
Media Contact
Tiffany Leong, The Doe Run
Company, 1 3142109511, tleong@standingpartnership.com,
https://doerun.com/
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