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Ramey Peru has been named Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and member of the board of directors beginning June 2007. Mr. Peru completed a 28-year career at Phelps Dodge Corporation, the largest publicly traded copper producer in the world, in March 2007 when it was sold to Freeport-McMoRan for $26 billion. During his last eight years with Phelps Dodge, he served as Chief Financial Officer, including, from October 2004- March 2007, as Executive Vice President and member of the three-person Office of the Chairman. Mr. Peru had direct management responsibility for all financial and many other functions at Phelps Dodge. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (1978) while majoring in accounting, and has attended executive development or advanced management programs at several universities. Mr. Peru is a member of the Boards of Directors of Wellpoint, Inc. and the University of Arizona Foundation, the National Board of Advisors of the Eller Graduate School of Management-University of Arizona, and is a life member of Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
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