Iván is one of the founding members of IGAN in 2012. As well as managing the delivery of projects, Iván undertakes mine planning, financial modelling and mine services engineering tasks. Iván is based in Oviedo at the head office of IGAN.

Prior to founding IGAN, Iván worked in Spain, Portugal and West Africa in roles of increasing responsibility for Rio Narcea Gold Mines (Planning engineer and Lead Operations Engineer), Redback Mining (Lead Operations Engineer), MATSA (Technical Services Superintendent) and Orvana Minerals (Mine Manager).

Iván has a solid background in mining operations, technical services and site management. With 25 years of experience, he has been involved in early mine development and management of mining projects, reserve and resource estimation, feasibility studies, basic and detailed engineering, mine commissioning and operations.