Eulalio B. Austin Jr.

Non-Executive Director

AGE: 61
CITIZENSHIP: Filipino
FIRST ELECTED DIRECTOR: May 18, 2010
LAST RE-ELECTED DIRECTOR: June 25, 2023

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Mr. Austin graduated from the St. Louis University in Baguio City, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering, and placed eighth in the 1982 Licensure Examination for Mining Engineers. He took his Management Development Program at the Asian Institute of Management in 2005 and his Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 2013.

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND/ EXPERIENCE
Mr. Austin is a Director of Philex Mining Corporation and Philex Gold Philippines, Inc. since June 29, 2011. He became President and Chief Operating Officer of Philex Mining on January 01, 2012, and President and Chief Executive Officer on April 03, 2013.

He previously served Philex Mining as its Senior Vice President for Operations and Padcal Resident Manager in 2011, Vice President and Resident Manager for Padcal Operations from 2004 to 2010, Mine Division Manager (Padcal) from 1999 to 2003, Engineering Group Manager in 1998 and Mine Engineering & Draw Control Department Manager from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Austin concurrently serves as President & CEO and Director of Silangan Mindanao Mining Co., Inc.

Outside of Philex Mining, he is a member of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines’ Board of Trustees. Mr. Austin also sits as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and serves as the Chairman of the Membership Committee as well as the Towards Sustainable Mining Initiative Committee. He is a Competent Person (CP) for Copper and Gold Deposit by the Philippine Society of Mining Engineers under the PMRC guidelines. He was awarded 2021 Outstanding Professional of the Year in the Field of Mining Engineering by the Professional Regulation Commission of the Philippines. Also in 2016, he was awarded Most Outstanding Engineer of the Philippine Society of Mining Engineers (PSEM), aside from being the Founding President of PSEM’s Philex Chapter. He was also recognized as the CEO of the Year on Mining by The Asset last December 14, 2015 in Hong Kong and was recently an Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awardee by the Enterprise Asia, awarded November 2016.

1. PXP Energy Corporation
2. Philex Mining Corporation