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Alberto joined the group in February 2006 as President Diamonds and Specialty Products and has served as a member of the Executive Committee. He has played a key role in developing our diamonds business and titanium businesses and putting in place the foundations for a potential future potash business.
His early career was spent in various roles in investment banking, the power sector and in the Colombian Government. In 1999, he was appointed President of Ecopetrol where he spent three years. From July 2002 until joining BHP Billiton, he was President of Cerrejon Coal Company (33 per cent owned by BHP Billiton). During this period production grew by 40 per cent and the cash costs were lowered from the third quartile to the lowest quartile of the world�s coal export mines. | 