About Us
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Sharples
Experience & expertise:
Matthew Sharples is a mining professional with over 20 years of experience in mine development, investment consulting and M&A. Matthew specialises in the geological evaluation and development of gold projects, with a particular focus on project development from the initial stage to production. Matthew was Co-Founder and CEO of the private mining fund Sycamore Mining. Under his stewardship, the group’s flagship asset, the Kiniero Mine (Guinea), grew from a total resource base of 1.5Moz Au to 3.5Moz Au (JORC) and was sold to Robex Resources in 2022 for a project valuation of US$160m. Matt has worked worldwide in the mining and resources industry, in the UK, Africa, Asia and Australia, with Robex, Sycamore, Wood Mackenzie, Xstrata and BHP Billiton.
Matthew holds an MSc in Basin Evolution and Dynamics, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, and a BSc in Geology, University of Durham, United Kingdom.
Non-Executive Chairman
Brett Montgomery
Experience & expertise:
Brett is well-known and respected in the international mining community with a breadth of experience in the management of public companies as well as equity and debt financing. He has held a number of executive and non-executive roles covering projects in West Africa, Australia, North America, Europe and Indonesia.
He is currently a non-executive director of AIC Mines Limited (ASX: A1M), Tanami Gold NL (ASX:TAM) and Phoenix Gold Fund Ltd.
Executive Director – Corporate & Strategy
BSc (Hons) Applied Geology, MBA International Mineral Resources Management, MIMMM, RSci, ACSM
Tim Strong
Experience & expertise:
Tim Strong is an economic geologist with over 13 years of experience on six continents. Tim’s commodity experience includes gold, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead, and zinc, with a focus on West African shear hosted orogenic gold. Over his career, he has worked with major mining companies, junior exploration companies, and capital markets professionals on a range of projects from target generation through to exploration planning & strategy, resource estimation and feasibility level studies. Work highlights include the resource drill out of the Yaouré gold deposit in Cote d’Ivoire (Amara Mining/Perseus Mining) as well as running near mine exploration for Resolute Mining in Mali.
Tim has been involved with the raising of seed capital and pre-IPO financing for private companies through an extensive network of European and North American investors. Through his work with public-listed junior exploration companies, Tim has additionally been involved with joint venture negotiation, investor relations and capital raisings.
Non-Executive Director
B Sc, PhD, MAusIMM, AIG, SEG
Doug Jones
Experience & expertise:
Dr Doug Jones is a geologist with 45 years’ experience in international technical, commercial, corporate, and project management gained in Sub Saharan and North Africa, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
He is a PhD qualified JORC ‘competent person’ with experience ranging from project generation and grass roots exploration to resource definition and feasibility studies, with extensive recent involvement in M&A project assessment and due diligence studies.
Doug has a track record of discovery, including the +10Moz Siguiri gold deposit in Guinea and the 1.3Moz Saramacca deposit in Suriname. Most recently, as General Manager, Exploration at Perseus Mining, he led teams that added significant new gold reserves to Perseus Mining’s Yaouré project in Côte d’Ivoire and Edikan project in Ghana.
Doug’s executive experience includes senior roles with ASX and TSX-listed public companies and board positions with a number of ASX, AIM and TSX-listed companies.
Consultant
Daniel Tucker
Experience & expertise:
Daniel Tucker is a geologist and mining engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the mining industry having completed work in Mineral and Ore estimation, geological modelling, mine design, optimisation and scheduling in base metal, industrial minerals and gold deposits across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Daniel is the founding director of Athelney Limited, a mining consultancy based in the United Kingdom. Prior to this, Daniel formed and managed the MENA region for an international consultancy firm. Most recently Daniel was part of the team that completed the feasibility study for Robex Resources on the Kiniero project in Guinea.
Daniel is a chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
