Get to know us.
Our beginnings.
Our Success Story: The Genesis of Ferroland Connex Corp - January 2024.
In the early days of January 2024, Ferroland Connex Corp emerged as a dynamic force in the business world, driven by a seasoned leader whose career spanned civil engineering, investment fund management, and entrepreneurship.
The founder, with a keen eye for strategic opportunities, envisioned a groundbreaking venture: the export of iron ore on a global scale. Recognizing the increasing demand for this crucial resource, especially in emerging markets like China, Ferroland Connex Corp was established as a collaborative working group.
The team assembled was a diverse and skilled group of professionals, including mining engineers, logistics experts, and business strategists. Their collective goal was to establish a streamlined connection between iron ore mines and international markets.
Ferroland Connex Corp swiftly became a key player in the international iron ore trade, thanks to its clear vision for the future and adaptability to global trends. The company's strategic approach and meticulous focus on logistics and ore quality allowed it to quickly establish itself as a reliable intermediary in the global iron ore market.
As the success in iron ore trading unfolded, Ferroland Connex Corp showcased its ability to anticipate and seize new opportunities. With foresight and an entrepreneurial spirit, the company successfully diversified its operations into the lucrative trade of precious gemstones.
The focus on emeralds, alexandrites, and pearls was grounded in a profound understanding of the gemstone market and leveraged the founder's international connections. Establishing strategic partnerships with renowned mines and producers, Ferroland Connex Corp ensured the authenticity and quality of its gemstone products, solidifying its position as a comprehensive player in both mineral and gemstone sectors.
The story of Ferroland Connex Corp is a testament to vision, determination, and success. From its inception in January 2024 as an iron ore exporter to its successful expansion into the trade of precious gemstones, the company has left an indelible mark on the industry. With an unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence, Ferroland Connex Corp continues to explore new horizons for growth and prosperity.
Living our purpose.
At Ferroland Connex Corp we strive to live our purpose every day. It guides our thinking, our decisions and our impact on people and society.
In a rapidly changing world, fulfilling our purpose to help people and planet has never been more important.
One of the many urgent issues the climate crisis has raised is the growing evidence of the connection between the mining sector and the health of our planet.
Driving transformation to meet customers' needs.
Our strategy is made up of our 6 strategic pillars.
Our ambition is "to be the world’s most centric mining consulting company".
This means a commitment to excellent customer experience, through great service and value, frictionless access and quality consulting service.
Customers-Obsession with our customers' experience.
Growth-Strong performance and governance.
Transformation-Continuous innovation and preparation for tomorrow.
Sustainability-Making a positive impact on the world.
Data-Enhanced data driven decision making.
Agile culture-The best, most diverse people and a great place to work.
People and culture.
Creating an agile culture.
Our people are what make us unique.
We believe in the importance of building an inclusive and agile culture that encourages diverse perspectives and inspires people to make new possibilities happen. It underpins our strategy and the success of our business depends on it. This means promoting a culture that encourages our employees to feel empowered to create, innovate and be the best they can be.
Through our values, leadership, communications, ways of working and processes we are embedding an agile culture that seeks to make a positive difference.
We’re excited that teams from our eco-disruptive talent programme are putting agile into practice to accelerate our sustainability agenda. We are strong believers in giving our employees a voice.
Driving inclusion together for a better world.
We embrace our differences knowing they make us stronger and help better reflect the needs of our customers and communities. This means creating and sustaining an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong.
Our approach encompasses diversity in its broadest sense, from gender, sexuality and race, to social, educational and professional backgrounds, disability, religion, age, learning styles and personalities.
We believe that having varied perspectives promotes understanding and helps generate innovative ideas to solve the complex problems of a diverse and fast-changing world.
Our ambition.
We embrace our differences knowing they make us stronger and help better reflect the needs of our customers and communities. This means creating and sustaining an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong.
Our approach encompasses diversity in its broadest sense, from gender, sexuality and race, to social, educational and professional backgrounds, disability, religion, age, learning styles and personalities.
We believe that having varied perspectives promotes understanding and helps generate innovative ideas to solve the complex problems of a diverse and fast-changing world.
Inclusive culture.
By fostering an inclusive culture, we create greater diversity among our workforce, which inspires innovation and creates products, services and frictionless experiences for our customers.
We are clear that no one should be excluded because of their age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage, pregnancy, and maternity, or other factors such as social background.
We recognise the importance of having an open dialogue with our people and we actively listen to questions, concerns, and ideas to foster an inclusive culture.
Through living our values, brave, caring, and responsible, we create an environment of psychological safety so our people have a voice, feel valued, and can be their true selves.
Inclusive culture.
We expect leaders to role-model and champion diversity and have explicitly built this into our leadership imperatives - the standards we hire leaders for, develop them to, and assess their performance against.
We encourage leaders to create and enable high-performing teams from diverse backgrounds and have mechanisms in place to support this from talent acquisition to succession planning to mentoring.
We recognise the need to continue to build a strong pipeline of female leaders, so we ensure leadership development is gender-balanced to support this aim.
We believe in women empowering other women with mentoring and sponsorship programs in place to support women in their leadership journey.
Inclusive culture.
We ensure we have fair hiring methods that eliminate any potential for bias.
We have policies and hybrid working to support our people to balance additional responsibilities and have a work-life balance they can thrive on.
We have programmes that bring in early career talent. We measure our progress and use data to support our drive.
Meet our CEO.
Learn more about José MAría Zapata, our Group CEO, and his role in leading the business.
He is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management, driving performance, and setting the strategic agenda.
Aitor Valle
Group Chief Operations Officer
Carlos Valentín
Group Chief Financial Officer
José María Pino
Chief Risk Officer
Amaya Gómez
Chief Brand & External Communications Officer.
In this role, she is responsible for establishing the global brand narrative for Bupa that supports our purpose, generating understanding, interest and engagement with customers and other key global stakeholders including colleagues, the media and policymakers.
Meet the members of our board.
The Board is responsible for the long-term success and sustainability of Ferroland Connex Corp for the benefit of its customers and wider stakeholders, now and in the future. It does this by:
providing clear leadership in setting strategy and risk appetite
overseeing management's implementation of strategy within a prudent and effective governance structure
ensuring that FCC's culture is aligned to our purpose, values and strategy
