Marcela Vaca, new president of the Board of Directors of the ACP

The Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) welcomes Marcela Vaca, General Director of GeoPark, who was unanimously elected as president of the Board of Directors for the 2021-2022 term.

The new Board of the ACP, which begins operations this April 1, is also made up of Fernando Sarria, president of ExxonMobil Colombia; and Óscar Bravo, president of Terpel; as vice presidents.

Marcela has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Additionally, as General Director of GeoPark, she is responsible for all the company's assets in Latin America. Furthermore, she is one of five women presidents among the 100 largest companies in Colombia; and in 2020, she was recognized by the Oil & Gas Council as one of the 275 most influential women in the mining-energy sector worldwide and one of the 50 most influential women in Colombia according to Forbes.

“It is an honor to have Marcela presiding over the Board of Directors of the ACP, we are confident that with her leadership, training, and experience, she will make a substantial contribution to the work of the guild for the benefit of the hydrocarbons sector; moreover, her appointment will help promote the oil and gas industry's efforts to close gender gaps and create equal participation spaces and conditions in the sector,” said Francisco José Lloreda Mera, Executive President of the ACP.

Marcela Vaca, Fernando Sarria, and Óscar Bravo replace Manuel Buitrago, Juan Carlos Ucrós, and Yuri Proaño in the Board's management group, presidents of Gran Tierra Energy, Sierracol, and Primax, to whom we express our recognition and gratitude for their management.

Thus, the Board of Directors 2021-2023 is made up of the following companies: GeoPark, Frontera, Parex Resources, Sierracol, ExxonMobil Colombia, Hocol, Canacol, Gran Tierra Energy, Terpel, Primax, Tecpetrol, Drummond, Cepsa, Shell, Noble Energy, Mansarovar, Repsol, and PetroSantander.

The ACP congratulates the presidents of the companies that will make up the new Board of Directors.