Ecopetrol Board of Directors Appoints Juan Carlos Echeverry as New CEO and Camilo Marulanda as Executive Vice President

Ecopetrol (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC; TSX: ECP) announced last week that its board of directors appointed Juan Carlos Echeverry as the new CEO of the company, effective April 6, 2015.

Incoming Ecopetrol CEO Juan Carlos Echeverry

With extensive knowledge of economics, the ability to lead processes of change, experience in public administration and prior experience as member of the Board of the Company, Mr. Echeverry meets all the conditions to carry out the reforms that the current price environment demands and execute the institutional strategy re-alignment in which the company has been engaged in recent months.

Born in 1962, Juan Carlos Echeverry is an economist  from the Universidad de los Andes, and holds degrees in International Economy from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a PhD in Economics from New York University. He was Dean of the faculty of Economy at Universidad de los Andes and Head of the National Planning Department as well as Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. He has also been a consultant and commentator in economics and has advised several governments and companies. Until a few months ago he was Executive Director for Colombia and Ecuador at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Ecopetrol’s new Executive Vice President, Camilo Marulanda

The process of selection and appointment of the new CEO took place in three stages. The first involved the identification by a competent international executive search firm of candidates who fulfill the conditions consistent with the profile defined by the board. The second stage was the selection by the firm of a small number of candidates, two of whom the board decided to interview and the third stage included the election of the new CEO, who counted on the affirmative vote of six out of the nine members of the board. Following the decision, the board endorsed the appointment by consensus and instructed the management of Ecopetrol to carry out the corresponding splicing at the earliest.

The Board of Directors also appointed Camilo Marulanda as Executive Vice President. Born in 1978, Mr. Marulanda is an economist from the Universidad de los Andes, with Marketing studies and a MBA from this university. Prior to join to Ecopetrol´s Group in 2003, he worked at International Investment Intelligence and Procter Gamble.

Ecopetrol´s Board of Directors is comprised by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Head of the National Planning Department and six independent members of which one is appointed by the producing regions in Colombia and other by the minority shareholders.