Marco Orellana Email & Phone Number

Marco Antonio Orellana Silva was born in 1958.. He received the Information Processing Engineering degree from the University of Chile, later obtaining a diploma in Information Management from the University of Santiago. He is married and has 3 children. From 2003 and currently, he is "CIO" of Codelco-Chile, the world’s largest copper producerIn 2003 he was promoted to the Corporate Executive Manager of Information and Communication Technology (CIO), where he is responsible to create maximum value to Codelco-Chile, through use of ICT&A. In this responsibility, his main accomplishment has been to create and implement a new ICT&A-based vision of the mining industry, with high levels of automation, a strategy known as DIGITAL CODELCO.He is an active member of several users groups, such as SAP for Mining, the associations of CIOs of large organizations in Chile and of CIOs of mining companies based in Chile and Peru. At the same time, he is in close contact with ICT industry leaders worldwide, sharing and discussing frontier topics related to DIGITAL CODELCO. For this role, in 2007 he was awarded the recognition of “Manager of the Year” in Chile by CETIUC. In 2010 the Chilean technology community recognized the DIGITAL CODELCO strategy, honoring Codelco-Chile with the prize of “CIO of the Year” and in 2011 he wins the MIT CIO Award for Innovation and Leadership. In 2012 is incorporated in Computerworld Global 100 Award, in 2013-2015 is incorporated in HITEC 50 ranking for Hispanic IT Community in USA, in 2016 was honored for the Community IT/Mining in Lima Perú, in 2016 is incorporated in ranking Global 50 Smart Industry.CODELCO DIGITAL strategy is elevated in paper: Codelco Copper Mines, developed by Harvard University in 2007 and for the books: “Leading Digital Transformation” for George Westerman of MIT, and “Only Humans need apply” for Tom Davenport 2016 and different newspaper like Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Listed skills include Strategy, Erp, Business Strategy, Change Management, and 46 others.