Meet Our Team
Over 150 years of exploration & mining experience across multiple commodities & varying stages of development
Brett is an experienced mining and technology executive with expertise in project development and mining technology commercialisation. Brett has co-founded and capitalised a number of UK and Australian resource companies including DEI Ltd, Signature Gold Ltd, Chrysos Corporation Limited, Tellus Holdings Ltd . Brett is currently founder and CEO of DryFlow Magnetics Pty Ltd, a mining technology company focused on green steel and also heads the joint venture partner of Agripower Australia Limited, a private equity backed industrial minerals company focused on silicon products.
Brett holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from Duke University and is a CFA charterholder. Brett has international finance experience as a senior investment banker with UBS (and Credit Suisse ) in London, New York and Sydney. He was appointed as a Director of the Company on 26 May 2015.
Mark is a highly experienced trader in metal derivatives and physical commodities, mining investor and entrepreneur. He has founded (and listed) several mineral exploration companies in the natural resources sector and he has also acted as an expert witness in high-profile metals and mining related commercial disputes.
He is the former Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Galena Asset Management Ltd, the fund management arm of Trafigura, and then latterly a partner at Apollo Management, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers.
He holds an B.A. in Physics from Oxford University, is married with two children and lives just outside of London.
Sam is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years’ worth of experience in the natural resources sector, in both legal counsel and executive management positions. Mr. Quinn is currently a partner of Silvertree Partners, a London-based corporate services company dedicated to the natural resources sector and holds various other positions in both listed and private natural resource companies.
Prior to this, Sam worked as the legal counsel to the Dragon Group, a London-based mining venture capital firm, as a corporate lawyer for Jackson McDonald Barristers & Solicitors in Perth, Western Australia and for Nabarro LLP in London.
Sam graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts and is a qualified lawyer in Western Australia and in England & Wales.
Andrew is the founder and director of Stellium, a company providing business development, communication, investor access, and corporate advisory services to growth companies. Prior to founding Stellium, Andrew spent 14 years working in capital markets roles focused primarily on growth companies and natural resources. He has extensive experience in capital raising for mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy businesses both privately and also listed on public exchanges (AIM, TSX and ASX).
Andew is a past Chairman of the Audit Finance and Governance committee for Wealden Council, in the UK and also sits on the board of a UK based pension fund managing £5bn and previously chaired the Council’s private arms-length property development company.