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Corporate Governance

Integrity is key to Ternium’s long term success. The
Company has appointed a business conduct compliance
officer, who reports to the CEO.

Ternium has mandatory training programs on the Company’s
Policy on Business Conduct and has adopted several policies,
codes and procedures to ensure transparency and ethical
behavior. 

In addition, the Company has put in place a Compliance
Line to report violations to its code of conduct and
principles.

Our compliance department oversees SOX certifications
and related party transactions. The Company’s board of
directors has an audit committee solely composed of
independent directors.

The internal audit department, which meets organizational
independence and objectivity standards, reports to the
chairman of the Company’s board of directors and, with
respect to internal control over financial reporting, to its
audit committee.

Corporate Governance

To report possible irregularities, go to Compliance Line .

Board of Directors

Paolo Rocca, Chairman

Mr. Rocca is the chairman of the Company’s board of directors. He is a grandson of Agostino Rocca, founder of the Techint Group, a group of companies controlled by San Faustin. He is also chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Tenaris, and director and president of San Faustin. He is a member of the executive committee of the World Steel Association. Mr. Rocca is an Italian citizen.

Daniel Agustín Novegil, Vice Chairman

Mr. Novegil is a member of the Company’s board of directors and holds the position of its vice-chairman. He served as chief executive officer of the Company from 2005 to 2018. With more than 40 years of experience in the steelmaking industry, in 1993 he was appointed managing director (CEO) of Ternium Argentina S.A. and was on the board of directors of Usiminas from 2013 until 2015. From 1993 he has also been a member of the board of directors of the World Steel Association and is currently a fellow of the Nominating Committee and former president of Alacero (Latin American Steel Association). Since 1999 to 2014 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Sloan Masters Program at Stanford University, where he graduated as Master of Science in Management. Mr. Novegil is an Argentine citizen.

Roberto Bonatti

Mr. Bonatti is a member of the Company’s board of directors. He is a grandson of Agostino Rocca. Throughout his career in the Techint Group he has been involved specifically in the engineering and construction and corporate sectors. He was first employed by the Techint Group in 1976, as deputy resident engineer in Venezuela. In 1984, he became a director of San Faustin and from 2001 to 2020 he served as its president. He is also a member of the board of directors of Tenaris. Mr. Bonatti is an Italian citizen.

Carlos Alberto Condorelli

Mr. Condorelli is a member of the Company’s board of directors. He is also a member of the board of directors of Tenaris. He served as Tenaris’ Chief Financial Officer from October 2002 until September 2007. He has held several positions within Tenaris, including also the Chief Financial Officer position in some of the principal Tenaris Group companies and member of the Company’s audit committee between November 1, 2017 and May 2, 2018. He also served as president of the board of directors of Empresa Distribuidora La Plata S.A. (“Edelap”), an Argentine utilities company. Mr. Condorelli is an Argentine citizen.

Gioia Ghezzi, Audit Committee Member

Mrs. Ghezzi serves as member of the Company’s board of directors since 2020. She currently serves as Chairwoman of ATM S.p.A. (an Italian transport company). Mrs. Ghezzi was a member of the Board of Ferrovie dello Stato (Italy) from May 2014 and its Chairwoman from December 2015 until July 2018. She served as a Board Member of the Humanitas Group from 2017 to 2022, and in different companies of the Insurance, Infrastructure and Innovation and Technology areas, in and out of Italy. Mrs. Ghezzi has held executive roles in the Zurich Insurance Group, Willis Group Holdings, McKinsey & Co. and IBM Research, among others. She is a theoretical physicist, with a London Business School Executive MBA. Mrs. Ghezzi is a British and Italian citizen.

Vincent Robert Gilles Decalf, Audit Committee Chairman

Mr. Decalf has served as a director of the Company since September 2015 and the Audit Committee’s Chairman since 2020. Since 2012, he acts as an independent non-executive director of various financial, insurance or commercial companies such as Bankinter Luxembourg, Covea Luxembourg or Kredietrust S.A. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Luxembourg Institute for Directors and Managers (Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs). Mr. Decalf is a certified independent director since 2014. From 1989 to 2008, Mr. Decalf held executive positions in different countries within Société Générale and has extensive experience in the financial industry. From 2008 to 2012, he was member of the executive committee of the Foyer Group, a Luxembourg-based insurer. For more than twenty five years, he has been an authorized director for Insurance, Bank or Financial companies under Luxembourg regulation. Mr. Decalf is French and Luxemburgish citizen.

Lorenza Martinez Trigueros, Audit Committee Member

Mrs. Martinez Trigueros currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Mexican Financial group bank Intercam. From 2021 to 2023 she was CEO of the Mexican bank Actinver. Mrs. Martinez Trigueros was the managing director of the payments, finance & risk of Accenture Mexico from 2019 to 2021, former Director of Banco de Mexico’s payments and corporate services arm until 2018 and was undersecretary of Industry and Commerce of Mexico from 2008 and 2012. Mrs. Martinez Trigueros has a degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and doctorate degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mrs. Martinez Trigueros is a Mexican citizen.

Gianfelice Mario Rocca

Mr. Rocca is a member of the Company’s board of directors. He is a grandson of Agostino Rocca. He is chairman of the board of directors of San Faustin, member of the board of directors of Tenaris, president of the Humanitas Group and president of the board of directors of Tenova S.p.A. Moreover, in Italy, he is member of the Board of Bocconi University and member of the advisory board of Politecnico di Milano. At international level, he is member of the Harvard Business School Advisory Board and member of ERT (European Round Table of Industrialists). Mr. Rocca is an Italian citizen.

Executive Officers

Máximo Vedoya, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Vedoya currently serves as our Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, he served as President of Ternium Mexico. He has held several other executive positions since joining the Techint Group in 1992, such as chief executive officer of Ferrasa, director of Ternium Mexico’s international and steel purchase operations, commercial director and export manager of Sidor and commercial planning manager of Ternium Argentina. He was also director of Fedemetal (the Colombian Federation of Metallurgical Industries) and AIMM (Venezuelan Association of Metallurgical and Mining Industry). He was also chairman of the Economics Committee of World Steel Association. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero), of which he served as President from 2019 to 2021. He is also president of Caintra (Nuevo Leon Industrial Chamber), vicepresident of Canacero (Mexican steel association) and Concamin (Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico), member of the Executive Commission of CCE (Mexican Business Coordinating Council) and General and Executive Board Member of UDEM (University of Monterrey, Mexico). Mr. Vedoya graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires and he holds a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University (USA). Mr. Vedoya is an Argentine citizen.

Pablo Brizzio, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Brizzio currently serves as our Chief Financial Officer, a position he assumed in 2010. He began his career in 1993 in Ternium Argentina. Since then, he has held several positions within the Company, such as finance director of Ternium from 2005 to 2007 and in 2009, and chief financial officer of Sidor in 2008. Mr. Brizzio holds a degree in industrial engineering from ITBA (Buenos Aires Institute of Technology) and a Master on Business Administration from Duke University. Mr. Brizzio is an Argentine citizen.

César A. Jiménez Flores, Ternium México President

Mr. Jiménez currently serves as President of Ternium Mexico. He assumed the position in 2018. Prior to that, he served as commercial vice president of Ternium Mexico since 2014. He has held other executive positions since joining the Company in 2007, such as CEO of Tenigal (2010-2014) and industrial sales director of Ternium Mexico (2008-2009). In addition, he is member of the board of directors of Tenigal. He holds a BS in computer science from UANL (Autonomous University of Nuevo León), a master degree in information systems management from ITESM (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) and general management program studies at Harvard Business School. Mr. Jiménez is a Mexican citizen.

Martín Berardi, Ternium Argentina President

Mr. Berardi currently serves as President of Ternium Argentina. In addition, he is the Chairman of the board of directors of Ternium Argentina. He began his career in the Techint Group in 1980 as a trainee in Propulsora Siderúrgica. He has held several positions within the Techint Group including Propulsora Siderúrgica, Siat S.A., or Siat (an Argentine welded steel pipe manufacturer which is a Tenaris’s subsidiary), and Siderca S.A.I.C., or Siderca (Argentine producer of seamless steel pipe products, which is a Tenaris’s subsidiary). He served as managing director of Siat (1992-1995), managing director of Mexican steel company Tubos de Acero de México S.A., or Tamsa (1995-2000), president and chief executive officer of Venezuelan steel company Sidor (2000-2004) and became managing director (October 2004), executive vice president and President of Ternium Argentina. He was president of the IVES (Venezuelan Steel Institute) between 2002 and 2004, president of Alacero between 2013 and 2015, and alternated the presidency and vice presidency of CAA (Argentine Steel Chamber) between 2012 and 2024. He is currently president of CAA, a member of the board of directors of Alacero and a member of the board of directors of ITBA. Mr. Berardi holds an industrial engineering degree from ITBA and a M.S. in Management from Stanford University. Mr. Berardi is an Argentine citizen.

Titus Schaar, Ternium Brasil President

Mr. Schaar currently serves as Ternium Brasil President. He joined the Company in 2014 as chief operating officer of Ternium Brasil, a position that he held until he assumed his current position in 2023. Mr. Schaar holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in economics from RWTH Aachen University. He is a board member of IABr (Brazil Steel Institute) and ABM (Brazil Material Institute). Mr. Schaar is a German citizen.

Héctor Obeso Zunzunegui, International Business Unit President

Mr. Obeso Zunzunegui currently serves as our International Business Unit President. He assumed his current position in 2012, then named international area manager. He has held several other executive positions since joining the Company in the year 2007, such as quality & product director of Ternium Argentina, industrial sales director of Ternium Mexico and commercial director of Ternium Mexico. He is member of the board of directors of Alacero. Mr. Obeso is a Mexican citizen.

Pablo Hernán Bassi, Chief Industrial & Engineering Officer

Mr. Bassi currently serves as our Chief Industrial & Engineering Officer. He began his career in the Techint Group in 1987 holding several positions in the engineering departments of Siderca, Techint-Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale S.p.A. and Ternium Argentina. He served as engineering and environment director of Ternium Mexico (2005-2017) and assumed his current position in November 2017. Mr. Bassi holds a degree in engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires. Mr. Bassi is an Argentine citizen.

Oscar Montero Martínez, Chief Planning Officer

Mr. Montero Martínez currently serves as our Chief Planning Officer. He began his career within the Company in 1984 as a commercial analyst in Ternium Argentina. Since then, he has held several positions within Ternium Argentina in the planning, commercial and procurement areas. In 1998 he assumed the position of strategic planning director in Sidor and in 2005 he assumed the position of planning and operations general director of the Company. He assumed his current position in 2017. Mr. Montero is an Argentine citizen.

Rodrigo Piña, Chief Human Resources Officer

Mr. Piña currently serves as our Chief Human Resources Officer. He assumed his current position in January 2013. Prior to that, he served as human resources director of Ternium Argentina. He has held several other executive positions since joining the Company in 2004, such as commercial planning, CEO assistant and human resources director assistant. Mr. Piña is an Argentine citizen.

Marina Valeria Chiesa, Chief Environment, Health and Safety Officer

Ms. Chiesa currently serves as our Chief Environmental, Health & Safety Officer. She began her career at the Company in 2004, and since then she has held several leadership positions and roles in the industrial engineering area, in the analysis of capital expenditure projects and in the planning of Ternium’s expansion. She has also served as Chief of Staff of the Company’s CEO. She assumed her current position in 2023. Ms. Chiesa holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. Ms. Chiesa is an Argentine citizen.

Carlos Polidori, Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Polidori currently serves as our Chief Technology Officer, a position he assumed in January 2023. He began his career in 1997 in Ternium Argentina. Since then, he has held several executive positions within the Company. He served in different quality departments and was director of operations and maintenance of the coating and service centers operations area in Argentina from 2013 to 2018. Subsequently, he served as quality director of Ternium Argentina until June 2021, and then he became quality director of Ternium Mexico. Mr. Polidori holds a degree in chemistry engineering from Universidad de Río Cuarto. Mr. Polidori is an Argentine citizen.

Fernando Duelo, General Counsel

Mr. Duelo currently serves as our General Counsel, a position he assumed in 2005. He joined the Techint Group in 1991 and has served as a lawyer in its legal department. Mr. Duelo holds a degree in law from the University of Buenos Aires. Mr. Duelo is an Argentine citizen.

Shareholders' Compliance Line

Ternium has a web-based confidential channel for investors to communicate their concerns directly to the company's Audit Committee, which is composed of independent directors.

All communications received through the Shareholders' Compliance Line are reviewed by our Internal Audit Director. The status of all concerns received through the Shareholders' Compliance Line is reported to the company's Audit Committee.

You may contact our Shareholders' Compliance Line by completing an online form

To report other possible irregularities unrelated to shareholders, Ternium has another confidential communication channel

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