Conferences

Global Mining Finance Spring Conference 2012

Speakers

Biographies of all speakers will be posted here closer to the conference.

 

Elena Clarici

Dr Elena Clarici is currently Portfolio Manager of Scipion Mining and Resources Fund, one of funds within Scipion Capital, a frontier market specialist and investment manager focused on two distinctive themes: commodities and Africa. Prior to joining Scipion Capital, Elena was a Senior Investment Analyst with Geneva-based Ocean Finance SA, a natural resources investment firm and advisor to Africa Energy Resources Fund. Elena was founder and Managing Partner of London-based Commodity Energy Capital - CeCap LLP, a specialist investment boutique, providing analysis and due diligence to investment funds and family offices looking to enter the natural resources sector. Originally, Elena was trained as a mining equity analyst and natural resources investment banker at various institutions in the City of London. Elena studied mining and earned her PhD from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. She is also the Chairman of a company focused on farming and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and the Chairman of the Association of Mining Analysts in London.

 

David Halkyard
David co-heads up the Mining Finance team in London, specialising in the mining with 10 years experience in the sector. David has been a member of Société Générale's Mining Finance team since 2005 and has been co-head of the team since 2011. He is responsible for arranging, providing and advising on debt finance for the mining and metals sector and has worked on numerous project financings both as an arranger and advisor. Prior to joining SG, David worked as an exploration geologist for a Rio Tinto and as a precious metals analyst at GFMS. He has a BSc (Hons) in Exploration Geology from Cardiff University, Wales and an MSc and DIC in Mineral Project Evaluation from the Royal School of Mines, London, England.

 

Mark Learmonth
Mark has been with Caledonia Mining since July 2008 and is responsible for Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Prior to joining Caledonia, Mark was an investment banker for 17 years in London and Johannesburg with various banks. Most recently he was a director at Macquarie in Johannesburg with responsibility for their African resources investment banking business. Mark is a graduate of Oxford University, he is a Chartered Accountant and he is also an Member of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe.

 

Joe Nally
Joe gained a B.Sc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Joe joined Williams de Broë in 1976 as an investment analyst covering property and insurance companies. He went on to become an institutional salesman covering a wide range of institutions in the UK and Europe. In 1992 he was the founder of the institutional corporate finance department at Williams de Broë where he gained extensive experience across a broad range of sectors in IPOs, secondary fundraising and takeovers and mergers, particularly in natural resources. Over the past three years, he has brought a considerable number of mining and oil and gas companies to the market.

 

David Russell.
David is currently Director, Global Resources, Metals and Mining in Ernst & Young's Transaction Advisory Services in London. He has over 30 years of experience in the resources sector including roles as CEO and Executive Director of resource companies listed on AIM, ASX, TSX-V and JSE. He is a qualified Geologist and has worked in the exploration and mining sectors in Southern Africa, Canada and Australasia. He completed Financial Management studies and Advanced and Strategic Management programmes at the University of Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Business. His experience in the global resources sector includes investment banking and financial services, where he was a top rated mining investment analyst for over 10 years in both South Africa and Australia . David has worked on a range of commodities in various geographies. He has experience in all aspects of the resources sector from exploration in remote African sites through to fund raisings in London, Australia and Canada, conducted international road-shows and has addressed many resource conferences around the world. . He has significant experience in resource corporate advisory and business development roles, and worked on some of largest mining IPOs in South Africa and Australia. He has been responsible for project identification and evaluation, due diligence and review of feasibility studies on a range of projects globally. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metals, the Geological Society of South Africa, the Association of London Mining Analysts and a Fellow of Financial Securities Institute of Australasia. He is an Australian and UK citizen.

 

Kerim Sener
Kerim graduated from the University of Southampton with a first-class BSc (Hons) degree in Geology in 1997 and from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, with an MSc in Mineral Exploration in 1998. After working for Independence Gold Mining Pvt. Ltd. (Lonmin Zimbabwe) he completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia. During his PhD, in 2000-2003, he worked with ASX-listed Northern Gold NL in the Northern Territory and on a variety of exploration consultancy projects in Western Australia. In 2009, he completed his military service in Turkey. He is a Fellow of The Geological Society of London, Member of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Member of the Chamber of Geological Engineers in Turkey and a member of the Society of Economic Geologists. He is a non-executive director of ASX-listed Genesis Resources Limited in Australia.

Bob Thompson
Chief Geologist Bob Thompson has more than 35 years experience as a field geologist. In the course of managing major multi-parameter geological programs for the geological Survey of Canada, he has mapped extensively in the Yukon, northeastern British Columbia, the Queen Charlotte Islands, south central British Columbia and the Kootenays. From each project came innovative ideas that underscored geological understanding, new models, and resource potential. Mr. Thompson has served as a consultant to the mining industry for the past five years. He is a Queen's grad, having obtained a BSc (hons) in 1968 and a PhD in 1972. The Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists awarded him the R.J.W. Douglas medal in 1998.

Martin Walter
Mr. Walter is the President and Chief Executive Officer and Director at Treasury Metals Inc. He brings more than 20 years of operational and international mineral and mine development experience to Treasury Metals' senior management team. He has worked on numerous precious metals projects worldwide as a consulting geologist and has held a number of executive management positions, including Executive Vice President and Director at Aquiline Resources Inc. He is a director of Crown Point Ventures Ltd. where he has been instrumental in building the assets of the company and the production team in Argentina. Mr. Walter holds a degree in geology from Ballarat University, Australia as well as an MBA from the University of Toronto.