Jose Merino is a qualified civil engineer with over 15 years of experience in business development and M&A transactions within the natural resources sector.
Mr Merino holds various advisory roles and is a partner of iLiMarkets, an advisory firm specialising in the lithium industry.
He worked at EPG Partners as head of a mining private equity fund for Asset Chile, a Chilean boutique investment bank, and at Santander Investment. He had also led the business development and M&A unit of SQM, one of the world’s largest lithium producers, where he oversaw several M&A transactions involving world-class deposits.
Mr Merino holds a Civil Engineering degree from Pontificia Univiersidad Católica de Chile.