Julian Bennett is a widely experienced mining professional with over 40 years in the industry. His career has covered the following: mining engineering, mine design, mine planning, mine operations, mine construction, mining consultancy and mine management. He has worked in bauxite, copper, cobalt, gold, chrome, iron ore, nickel, and lead and zinc. He has experience of open pit and underground mining. His career has taken him to Europe, West, Central and Southern Africa, North, Central and South America, Central Asia and Australia. Specific countries include Angola, Australia, Canada, Chile, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Macedonia, Peru, Republic of South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Benjamin Cebrian Romo graduated as a mining engineer from the Polytecnical University of Madrid (UPM). Benjamin started his mining career working as an engineer at technical services at Union Espa�ola de Explosivos (UEE now MAXAM). In 2004 he became the manager of subsidiaries of UEE-Europe Technical Services (Servicio Plus). The four main activities at that department were consultancy in drilling and blasting, training of engineers and technicians, research and publication of innovations in explosives and rock fragmentation and development of new, safer, explosives and blasting techniques. He was a founder member of the ISEE Chapter at the Colorado School of Mines. His Masters focused on mining engineering and mineral economics, mixing both concepts for a better, more complete focus of drilling and blasting efficiency and downstream implications (mine-to-mill approach).He worked as part of the Spanish team of the European Union research program called "less fines", for better control of fines production on the aggregate industries. Since 2006 he created BLAST CONSULT S.L, performing works worldwide of consultancy and training. He also is contributing to the mining industry by writing the SME 2009 book chapter on drilling and blasting.

Sanet completed her N4 to N6 certificates in Applied Management, Entrepreneurship and Business, Management, Communication and Human Relations and Computer Practice in 1998. Before joining LQS, she worked at numerous companies as administrator and personal assistant. Sanet joined LQS in 2005 to take care of the administration and accounts.

Alicia Sierra obtained her degree in advertising at the Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia in 2001. She also obtained her masters degree in Consumer's Behaviour at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile.

She started working with small companies' management, assisting them in developing marketing strategies for their products.

She then worked with a public company called CVC, coordinating their promotional activities. Arriving in Chile she worked at a retail magazine called "Al Detalle". Here, Alicia was responsible for co-ordinating the marketing strategies for this new magazine and developed sales strategies for potential advertisers. Here at LQS, Alicia works as marketing manager for LQS Latin America, in charge of the promotional activities of the company and of the training business area.