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• Octavio Cortes Pereira Lopes and Luiz Gustavo Perrotti Rossato have resigned from their positions as CEO and chief operating officer. Pereira Lopes will continue to lead the Magnesita Group as chairman of the board of the directors, but will no longer hold an officer position in the company. Luis Rodolfo Mariani Bittencourt was appointed as the new CEO and Francisco Jose Carrara Fava the new director. Fersen Lamas Lambranho has been appointed vice president of the board of directors.

  A number of changes have been made following the appointment of Jean-Sebastien Jacques as CEO in July. Andrew Harding, head of Rio's iron ore division for the past three years, has been replaced by Chris Salisbury, who was running the company's copper and coal business. Chris Lynch, chief financial officer, will remain in the same post under Jacques. Alan Davies will head a restructured energy and minerals business, which no longer includes diamonds but includes Rio's coal and uranium operations, as well as Rio's iron ore operations in Canada, which are much smaller and less profitable than its western Australian mines. Arnaud Soirat is now in charge of a reconfigured copper and diamonds business. Eleanor Evans, group company secretary, has left the business. Victoria Hames, previously deputy company secretary, will act as company secretary in her place.

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