Mallén Gajardo

Mallén Gajardo is the global project pursuit manager for Mining & Metals at Emerson, with over 30 years of experience leading automation and instrumentation projects in the mining industry. During his 25-year career at Codelco, Chile's national copper mining company, Gajardo worked across key processing areas, including concentrators, smelters, electrolytic refining, leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning, and sulfuric acid plants. In addition to his industry leadership, Gajardo serves on advisory committees for several international automation congresses, contributing his expertise to the advancement of automation technologies in mining. Gajardo is an automation engineer with a postgraduate degree in Business