About

Formerly a highly successful public sector lawyer within the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru from 2006 to 2012, Kristiam Martin Veliz Soto took on the position of chief legal officer for Consorcio Minero Horizonte. He was quickly in the thick of things, explaining how he was first tasked with oversight of the ‘expansions of the Parcoy, Los Zambos and Untuca Mining Units, as well as the company’s new mining projects, such as Santo Domingo, Romerillo, Palcawanka, Millo, Loma Linda, Pachaconas and Valetita’. Veliz Soto has since been at the forefront of Consorcio Minero Horizonte’s major projects. ‘In July 2017’, he explains, ‘we concluded the formalisation process with the legal entities of four peoples (Curaubamba Peasant Community, La Campesino Community Soledad, Artesanales Miners United of Huariracra Esperanza Parcoy and Sociedad Minera Retamas Parcoy) with whom we signed mining contracts in the area of the Mining Unit Parcoy’. This success has been due in no small part to Veliz Soto’s talent for management, which has allowed him to marshal the legal function of the company effectively. He goes into some of his techniques for this: ‘I believe that the important thing in management is to have a team that is committed to the company, which has passion for what it does and assumes each project or controversy as a family problem. My team has understood this and addresses each assignment in a comprehensive manner from beginning to end, some fruits of this work philosophy are evident in the success we have had with company projects’.