TORONTO, Jan. 19, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Collective Mining Ltd. (NYSE: CNL) (TSX: CNL) has appointed Carlos Andrés Santos as Executive Vice President, effective immediately.
Santos brings over two decades of senior leadership experience in strategy, operations, transformation, and corporate services across the Americas. He has a strong track record in Colombia’s resource sector. Most recently, he was CEO of Americas Business Services at Holcim / Amrize, where he led the region’s growth and cash-generation strategy across markets from Canada to Argentina. In this role, he led over 1,400 employees and was responsible for finance, procurement, sales, human resources, and data management.
Before Holcim / Amrize, Santos held executive positions at Ecopetrol S.A., Colombia’s largest integrated energy company, including Vice President of Supply Chain & Shared Services. He directed large-scale strategic organizations with substantial budgets, driving efficiency, transparency, and sustainability initiatives.
Santos holds an economics degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia and has completed postgraduate studies in international economics.
Ned Jalil, CEO of Collective, said that they are delighted to welcome Santos to the Collective team. He added that his deep operational expertise, proven leadership in Colombia, and extensive background in managing large-scale transformations in resource-intensive industries make him an outstanding addition as they enter an exciting growth phase. He also said that strengthening their management team is a top priority as they launch major technical studies, their largest-ever drill program and advance key discoveries at the Guayabales Project — anchored by the high-grade Apollo system — and continue to unlock significant value across their portfolio in Colombia’s prolific Middle Cauca belt.
Collective is a gold, silver, copper, and tungsten exploration company with projects in Caldas, Colombia. The Company’s two projects are located directly within an established mining camp with ten fully permitted and operating mines. Its flagship project, Guayabales, is anchored by the Apollo system, which hosts the large-scale, bulk-tonnage and high-grade gold-silver-copper-tungsten Apollo system. The Company’s objectives at the Guayabales Project are to expand the newly discovered high-grade Ramp Zone along strike and to depth and drill a series of greenfield generated targets on the property.
Additionally, the Company has launched its largest drilling campaign in history at its optioned San Antonio Project (100% potential interest) as it hunts for new discoveries and looks to expand upon the newly discovered porphyry system at the Pound target. The San Antonio Project is located between two to five kilometers east-northeast of the Guayabales Project and could potentially share infrastructure given their proximity to each other.
Management, insiders, a strategic investor and close family and friends own 45.3% of the outstanding shares of the Company and as a result, are fully aligned with shareholders.
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