Mexico City, April 15, 2011 – Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV and NYSE: ICA) announced that in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 14, 2011, the shareholders approved the audited financial statements for 2010. The shareholders also approved the maximum amount of Ps. 1 billion as a reserve for share purchase program. Melissa Boisson Portillo, Luis Horcasitas Manjarrez, and Rubén López Barrera were elected as new members of the Board of Directors. The Shareholders’ Meeting also elected Elsa Beatriz Garcia Bojorges the new Chair of the Audit Committee; she is an audit committee financial expert, within the meaning of Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. During the meeting, six independent members of the Board of Directors were ratified.
Melissa Boisson Portillo is currently the Public Affairs Manager for the North Region of Latin American for The Dow Chemical Company based in Mexico City. Prior to her involvement with Dow, she held various public affairs positions in both industry and government institutions as well as in the Inter-American Development Bank. She holds a Master in Science in Sustainable Development from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, including a research exchange and thesis program at Twente University in the Netherlands. She is member of the International Network of Leaders in Environment and Development (LEAD); in addition, she holds a Bachelors degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She participates in various corporate-social-responsibility related groups and is Vice-Chair of the Social Responsibility Committee within the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico and Member of the Board of a non-for-profit organization, INNOVEC, whose main focus is to promote science teaching and learning through innovative methodologies for Mexican children.
Luis Horcasitas Manjarrez is Director for Civil Construction for ICA and a member of ICA’s Executive Committee. In his more than 30 years of experience in ICA, he has held a variety of positions including as divisional director of heavy construction, director of infrastructure operations, and director of international concessions, among others. Mr. Horcasitas was also the director of our El Cajón hydroelectric project. He studied engineering at the Escuela de Ingeniería Municipal and has taken specialized courses in road building. He previously served as the Vice President of Construction for the Mexican Association of Roadways, A.C. (AMIVT) and as alternate representative of the Communications and Transportation sector of the Mexican Construction Industry Chamber of Commerce. He is an active participant in several engineering related associations in Mexico.
Rubén Gerardo López Barrera is Director of Strategic Planning, Business Development, and International for ICA and a member of ICA’s Executive Committee. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of ICA’s airport subsidiary OMA, as also as OMA’s Director for Human Resources, Legal, and Communication, and as ICA’s Business Development Director and Project Finance Director. He has more than 17 years working in ICA. Mr. López received a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford University Sloan Master’s Program, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the joint program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
ICA’s shareholders also accepted the resignations of Luis Fernando Zárate Rocha, Sergio Fernando Montaño León, and Juan Claudio Salles. Bernardo Quintana, ICA’s Chairman, said, “On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to extend my thanks to Sergio, Luis Fernando, and Juan Claudio for their many years of service to ICA, for their counsel, and their friendship.”
The Board of Directors elected at the Shareholders’ Meeting is made up of 18 members, of whom 11 are considered Independent Directors under Mexican law.