{"url_path":"/sec/scco/10-k/2026/item-10","section_key":"item-10","section_title":"Item 10 , 11, 12, 13 AND 14**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"10-K","doc_date":"2026-02-27","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/0001104659-26-021492-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-021492","cik":"0001001838","ticker":"SCCO","issuer_name":"SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/0001104659-26-021492-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001001838","primary_entity_name":"SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/"},"word_count":2124,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**ITEM 10, 11, 12, 13 AND 14**\n\n​\n\n**INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS**\n\n​\n\nSet forth below are the executive officers of the Company, their ages as of February 27, 2026 and their positions.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**Name**\n\n**  ​ ​ ​**\n\n**Age**\n\n**  ​ ​ ​**\n\n**Position**\n\nGerman Larrea Mota‑Velasco\n\n \n\n72\n\n \n\nChairman of the Board and Director\n\nOscar Gonzalez Rocha\n\n \n\n87\n\n \n\nPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Director\n\nRaul Jacob Ruisanchez\n\n \n\n67\n\n \n\nVice President, Finance, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer\n\nJulian Jorge Lazalde Psihas\n\n \n\n57\n\n \n\nSecretary\n\nAndres Carlos Ferrero Ghislieri\n\n \n\n57\n\n \n\nGeneral Counsel\n\nLina Vingerhoets Vilca\n\n \n\n64\n\n \n\nComptroller\n\nJuan Fernando Nuñez Chávez\n\n \n\n68\n\n \n\nVice President, Exploration\n\nPatricio Ovejas Simon\n\n​\n\n38\n\n​\n\nExecutive Vice President\n\nRaul Vaca Castro\n\n \n\n66\n\n \n\nGeneral Auditor\n\n​\n\n**German Larrea Mota-Velasco** has been our Chairman of the Board of Directors since December 1999 and was Chief Executive Officer from December 1999 to October 2004. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (“Grupo Mexico”) (holding) since 1994. Mr. Larrea has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Ferroviario Mexicano S.A. de C.V (railroad company) since 1997. Mr. Larrea was previously Executive Vice Chairman of Grupo Mexico and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1981. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Empresarios Industriales de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“EIM”) (holding) and Fondo Inmobiliario (real estate company), since 1992.\n\n​\n\nMr. Larrea presides over every Board meeting and since 1999 has been contributing to the Company his education, leadership skills, industry knowledge, strategic vision, informed judgement and over 20 year of business experience, especially in the mining sector. As Chairman and Executive Officer of Grupo Mexico, of Grupo Ferroviario Mexicano, S.A. de C.V. and of EIM, a holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, including mining, construction, railways, real estate, and drilling. Mr. Larrea brings a wealth of cross-industry business experience to the Company, offering a unique and valuable perspective across multiple sectors.\n\n​\n\n**Oscar Gonzalez Rocha** has served as our President since December 1999 and our President and Chief Executive Officer since October 21, 2004. He has been our Director since November 1999. Mr. Gonzalez Rocha has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Americas Mining Corporation since November 1, 2014 and the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Asarco LLC (integrated U.S. copper producer), an affiliate of the Company, since August 2010. Previously, he was our President and General Director and Chief Operating Officer from December 1999 to October 20, 2004. He has been a Director of Grupo Mexico since 2002. He was General Director of Mexicana de Cobre, S.A. de C.V. from 1986 to 1999 and of Buenavista del Cobre S.A. de C.V. (formerly Mexicana de Cananea, S.A. de C.V.) from 1990 to 1999. He was an alternate Director of Grupo Mexico from 1988 to April 2002. Mr. Gonzalez Rocha is a civil engineer with a degree from the Autonomous National University of Mexico (“UNAM”) in Mexico City, Mexico. Mr. Gonzalez Rocha has been recognized as Copper man of the year 2015 and was inducted into the American Mining Hall of Fame in December 2016 in Tucson, Arizona and into the Mexican Mining Hall of Fame in October 2017 in Guadalajara, Mexico.\n\n​\n\n**Raul Jacob Ruisanchez** has served as our Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer since April 18, 2013. He was appointed Treasurer of the Company on April 28, 2016. He was our Comptroller from October 27, 2011 to April 18, 2013. He has held various positions focused primarily on financial planning, treasury, corporate finance, investor relations and project evaluation with the Company since 1992. In September 2011, he was appointed Director of Controller and Finance of the Company’s Peruvian Branch and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Southern Peru Limited, one of our subsidiaries. In 2021, Mr. Jacob was ranked by Institutional Investor as the top Chief Financial Officer in the Latin America mining industry and from 2014 to 2020, he was ranked four times among the top three CFOs in Latin America. Mr. Jacob was President of the Peruvian National Mining, Oil and Energy Association from\n\n194\n\n[Table of Contents](#TOC)\n\nJanuary 2021 to January 2023 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of this Association. Mr. Jacob is a member of the Consulting Board of the MBA program of the Universidad del Pacifico at Lima, Peru. He was President of the Strategic Studies Center of IPAE, an entrepreneurial association from February 2007 to March 2010. From 2004 to 2006, he was the President of the Finance Affairs Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru. Mr. Jacob holds an economics degree from Universidad del Pacifico at Lima, Peru, a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, a Degree in International Business Management from the Stockholm School of Economics at Stockholm, Sweden and a Senior Manager Degree from the Instituto de Empresa Business School (IE) at Madrid, Spain.\n\n​\n\n**Julian Jorge Lazalde Psihas**, our Secretary, has been a Director, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Asarco LLC since December 2009. Since October 2015 he is also General Counsel of Americas Mining Corporation, both subsidiaries of Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V., the parent company of the Company. Mr. Lazalde was General Counsel of Asarco Inc., the predecessor of Asarco LLC, from September 2006 until December 2009. Mr. Lazalde holds a law degree from the Autonomous Institute of Mexico, known as ITAM, and has degrees from the Panamerican University in two special areas, tax law and commercial law.\n\n​\n\n**Andres Carlos Ferrero Ghislieri**, our General Counsel, has been a member of the Legal Department of our Peruvian Branch since December 1995. He was appointed Legal Manager of the Peruvian Branch and General Counsel of the Company in 2016. Previously he served as the Superintendent of Legal Affairs of the Peruvian Branch from March 2008 to June 2016. From February to October 1995, he served as a Technical Advisor to the World Bank’s Energy and Mines Technical Assistance Loan Project (EMTAL) assigned to the National Society of Mining, Energy and Petroleum. He has also worked as a mining law consultant for the South African Government from May to October 2001. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Compañía Minera Los Tolmos, S.A., Secretary of the Board of Directors of Ocoña Hydro, S.A. and General Counsel of Southern Peru Limited, which are all subsidiaries of the Company. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Inversiones Tulipan, S. A., an affiliate of the Company and member of the Board of Directors of Asociación de Empresas Promotoras del Mercado de Capitales (Procapitales), a non-profit organization. He holds a law degree from the University of Lima, Peru and a Master of Law or LLM degree in Resources Law and Policy from Dundee University, in Dundee, Scotland, in the United Kingdom.\n\n​\n\n**Lina Vingerhoets Vilca**, our Comptroller, has been the Assistant Comptroller of the Company since April 2015 and Controller of the Peruvian Branch of the Company since July 2015. Ms. Vingerhoets has worked for the Company’s Peruvian Branch in various capacities since 1991. From 2013 to 2015, she was in charge of Internal Control. From 2006 to 2015, she was in charge of Accounting Quality and SEC reporting. In addition, she has held other positions in Financial Planning, Finance and Accounting with the Company’s Peruvian Branch. Ms. Vingerhoets is a Peruvian certified public accountant and holds Accounting and MBA degrees from the Universidad del Pacifico, in Lima, Peru.\n\n​\n\n**Juan Fernando Nuñez Chávez** has served as the Company’s Vice President, Explorations since April 10, 2025. He is a Geological Engineer by profession and has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry, working primarily as a geologist in the exploration of metallic mineral deposits. He has served as the Explorations Manager of Southern Peru Copper Corporation since 2000. Previously, he worked for different mining companies as an Exploration Advisor Geologist and carried out several mineralogical studies in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. He has been a university professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru and the Universidad San Agustin de Arequipa, in Arequipa, Peru. He has a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, in Arequipa, Peru, He also has a Master of Science and PhD in Geology. He was president of the Lima Chapter of Geological Engineers of the College of Engineers of Peru from 2016 to 2018.\n\n​\n\n**Mr. Patricio Ovejas Simon** has served as the Company’s Executive Vice President since July 24, 2025. He has held executive positions in finance, information technology, operations and venture capital. Mr. Ovejas Simon served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Information Technology at Grupo Cinemex, S.A. de C.V., one of the largest entertainment companies in Latin America from January 2022 to April 2025. During his tenure, he led a restructuring debt process, implemented a shared services model supporting U.S. operations, and directed multiple cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He was also responsible for overseeing enterprise-wide financial reporting, treasury, tax, and audit functions, while driving a strategic modernization of the IT organization. Previously, from June 2020 to December 2021, Mr. Ovejas Simon served as Chief Operating Officer of Fitpass, S.A.P.I. de C.V., where he led the company’s\n\n195\n\n[Table of Contents](#TOC)\n\nexpansion into Latin America and executed key operational efficiencies. From January 2019 to December 2019, he held the role of Chief Financial Officer at FreedomPop, S.A. de C.V. in Mexico and from February 2011 to December 2018, he served in key roles at DILA Capital, S.A.P.I. de C.V., a venture capital fund, and Venture Consulting Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a consulting firm in Mexico. He has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Universidad Anahuac and holds a postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico. In addition, he holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the McCombs School of Business in Austin, Texas.\n\n​\n\n**Raul Vaca Castro** was elected as General Auditor, effective July 18, 2019. He has 38 years of experience with Grupo Mexico. Mr. Vaca Castro has been Director of Internal Audit of SCC since 2018. Previously, he was Director of Internal Audit of the infrastructure division of Grupo Mexico, as well as Deputy Director of Internal Control for the mining division of Grupo Mexico. He was also comptroller of Minera Mexico Internacional and before this, he held several positions in different companies of Grupo Mexico. Mr. Vaca holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He holds an MBA from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico, with a specialization in finance, having earned an honorable mention award, when receiving his diplomas in finance and taxes. Mr. Vaca is also an active member of the Colegio de Contadores Publicos de Mexico and the Institute of Internal Auditors of Mexico. He is also President of the Technical Commission of Internal Audit of the Colegio de Contadores Publicos de Mexico. He is a professor at the Facultad de Contaduria y Administracion of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).\n\n​\n\n**Disclosure of Insider Trading Policies and Procedures**\n\nIn compliance with Item 408(b)(1) of Regulation S-K, we have adopted a comprehensive insider trading policy and procedures designed to prevent insider trading and protect the interests of our shareholders and the integrity of our markets. The Company’s “Securities Law Compliance Policy” governs the handling of material non-public information and the purchase, sale, and other dispositions of SCC’s securities, which applies to directors, officers, employees, and other covered individuals. We believe that our Policy is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and listing standards applicable to the Company.\n\n​\n\nA copy of the Securities Law Compliance Policy is filed as Exhibit 19.1 to this Annual Report. The additional disclosure requirements specified by Part III, Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 will be included in our definitive proxy statement for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be filed with the SEC prior to April 30, 2026, pursuant to Regulation 14A of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act, as amended, or will be provided by amendment to this Form 10-K, also to be filed no later than April 30, 2026.\n\n​\n\nThe information contained in such definitive proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference, excluding the information under the caption “Compensation Committee Report,” which shall not be deemed filed.\n\n​\n\n**PART IV.**\n\n​"}