CELSIUS RESOURCES LIMITED - Key Persons


Jane Duran

Job Titles:
  • Mining Engineer
  • OIC - Chief Operations Officer
Jane is a licensed Mining Engineer with over eight years of combined experience in various lead roles in government and private sectors of the mining industry in ensuring that projects are managed and implemented in a safe, environmentally sound, and cost-effective manner. These experiences enabled her to hone her skills in mine planning, contracts management, risk assessment and management, monitoring and evaluation, project scheduling, and budgeting.

Julito (Sarge) Sarmiento - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Executive Chairman
Julito is a Philippine national and resident, admitted to the Philippine Bar and New York State Bar, has 30 years' experience as a lawyer in mining, environment, social license, renewable energy, and government relations in the Philippines. He is a strong advocate for the sustainable development and social transformation of local communities, particularly of indigenous cultural communities in resource-dependent industries. He has excellent relationship with the Balatoc ... indigenous cultural community as host community of Makilala Mining Corporation for the Maalinao-Caigutan-Biyog (MCB) Project in Kalinga Province, Northern Luzon. He also played a key role in the successful operations of several significant mining companies throughout the country. He led the acquisition by Glencore of the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining (PASAR) Corporation in Leyte Province, Visayas, where he subsequently served as Board Director, Vice President and General Counsel. He was Senior Partner and Head of Natural Resources, Environment and Social License Practice Group for 16 years of one of the leading law firms in the Philippines. He was CEO, President and co-Founder of WeGen Inc., a renewable distributed energy covering Southeast Asia. He is concurrently the Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Sarmiento Loriega (SL) Law Office and SL & Partners Consultancy Inc. Mr. Sarmiento holds a Master of Laws degree and Doctor of Jurisprudence (Cand.) as a World Bank Scholar from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, an MBA (with highest honors) from a Joint Program of Ateneo School of Business and Colorado-based Regis University, a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Pre-Divinity at the Ateneo de Manila University. He underwent an eight-year formation for the priesthood in the Seminary where he developed very close relationship with the Church. Mr Sarmiento is currently the President of each of Celsius' operating subsidiaries, namely Makilala Mining Company, Inc. (MCB Copper Project), Tambuli Mining Company, Inc. (Sagay Copper Project),and PDEP, Inc. Read More

Kellie Davis - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Secretary
Kellie has over 20 years of experience in accounting and ASX Compliance, predominantly in the resources sector. Beginning her career in Audit with Ernst and Young, she has worked as a Financial Accountant and provided company secretarial compliance services for a number of listed ASX companies in the exploration and resources sectors. She has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) Degree and is a Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand member.

Michael Hulmes

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Mining Engineer
  • Non - Executive Director
Michael is a mining engineer by profession with over 35 years experience in base metal and gold mines in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Spain, China, South Africa, Tanzania, Brazil, US and UK. His career has substantially involved the development and operation of underground mines. These have been mainly modern mechanised operations, employing a variety of mining methods, in a range of geological settings. He was most recently the COO of... Appian Capital - Brazil, overseeing the restart of the Mirabela Nickel Mine and the construction of the greenfields Serrote Copper Mine. Prior to this he was the Managing Director, Iberian Operations for Lundin Mining with responsibility for the Neves-Corvo and Aguablanca base metal mines in Portugal and Spain respectively. He was General Manager of the Ok Tedi Mine which exploits a porphyry copper/gold deposit in Papua New Guinea; and COO of Citadel Resources during the development of the Jabal Sayid Copper/Zinc Mine. In Australia he was the General Manager, Australian Operations for Barrick Gold, with responsibility for five mines, three of which had underground operations. He was the General Manager of the Plutonic Gold Mine and during his tenure there he oversaw the transition of the mine from a predominantly open pit to a predominantly underground operation. Mr Hulmes holds a B.Sc (Eng) in Mining Engineering from Imperial College, London University and an MBA from Deakin University. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is currently a non-executive director of TSX listed Transatlantic Gold Corporation. Read More

Paul Dudley

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Paul has over 25 years' business experience, working across various sectors including within Natural Resources, Corporate Finance, Regulatory and Financial Services. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants of England and Wales and a Member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PwC and whilst at WH Ireland plc,... he worked as a Qualified Executive for the purposes of the AIM Rules, acting as a Nominated Adviser from 2004-2007. Read More

Peter Hume

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Managing Director / BCom, CA
Peter has over 40 years' of substantial and practical experience on major mining and construction development projects on lead roles throughout Australia and internationally. This experience has greatly helped build his proven skills in general management, project management, operation management, construction management, dispute resolution, infrastructure and process design. He has carried out operational assignments in mining, materials ...handling, processing and infrastructure, where he was responsible for a range of roles from concept planning through to commissioning and operations. Within these capacities, he was also responsible for design management, development and implementation of quality, safety and maintenance management systems. These assignments have been demonstrated when he worked with companies such as Porgera Joint Venture, Xstrata Copper, Xstrata Coal, Anglo Coal, Glencore, Newmont Mining Corporation, BMA Coal, Kaltim Prima Coal and Dyno Nobel among others. While working with these companies, he had the opportunity to mentor young and dynamic professionals which has been a key driver in his career, to ensure that knowledge, experience and core values gained through the years is passed on. Read More

Pine Van Wyk

Job Titles:
  • Country Operations Director - Namibia
  • Metallurgical Engineer
Pine is a Metallurgical Engineer by profession, with extensive experience in the mining industry, particularly in developing and operating mines in Namibia. He holds commercial qualifications (B.Com and MBA), with a focus on project management. He spent eight years at Rössing Uranium, where his roles included Superintendent Acid Plant and Metallurgical Services, Superintendent Strategic Projects... and Engineering Manager. In 2005, he joined Paladin Energy Ltd at their Langer Heinrich Uranium project as Operations Manager, taking the project from feasibility to full production. In 2008, he joined Gecko Namibia as Director Projects and in 2014 became Managing Director of the Gecko Namibia group of companies. During 2018, Mr van Wyk also became the CEO and Director of Namibia Critical Metals Inc. Read More

Simon James Farrell

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Non - Executive Director
Simon obtained his Bachelor of Commerce in the University of Western Australia and his Masters in Business Administration at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Simon has more than 40 years' experience in both the finance and mining industries. He was CEO of Consolidated Minerals, where 3 years after he left Consolidated Minerals,... the new controlling entity sold the assets acquired under his management for over $A1 billion. Simon also worked as a consultant to the Minproc Engineering group for a short period before becoming CEO of what became Coal of Africa Limited (CAL). He started CAL with a capitalization of $A3 million and grew it to a company with a market cap in excess of $A 1.5 billion and departed it in 2017 as Deputy Chairman.