GREAT SOUTHERN COPPER - Key Persons
Charles is a corporate finance lawyer with over 25 years of experience and has worked with mining companies for the last 15 years. He is a partner in the London office of international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP where he leads the UK firm's Natural Resources group and Equity Capital Markets team. He practises in equity capital markets and public and private M&A for mining clients in developed and emerging markets, helping to develop their business using his wide international network of contacts in the sector. He has acted as lead counsel for numerous mining companies and financial advisers, advising on flotations on the London and Toronto stock exchanges, on secondary fundraises, public and private M&A, corporate governance, joint ventures and earn-ins. He is named as one of the four leading mining lawyers in England in the most recent International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers.
Martin is an experienced CFO, predominantly in the natural resources sector, with exposure to all elements of the value cycle including exploration and operating assets. He has extensive experience of capital and debt markets, statutory and management reporting requirements and detailed tax and treasury planning.
Martin was previously CFO at Trident Royalties plc, an AIM quoted junior mining royalty company, where he presided over an increase in the company's market cap from c.$40 million to c.$200m. In this role, Martin was responsible for oversight and management of the Group's finances, negotiation of debt financing and the deployment of over US$100m in capital across several large deals. Prior to that he held the position of CFO at Toro Gold, a group that owned and operated the Mako Gold mine in Senegal, which was sold to Resolute Mining for in excess of US$300m in 2019.
Nick holds a BSc. Hons. Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London. He has over 25 years of experience in financial markets heading up Exchange Traded Derivatives sales desks at a number of tier 1 broking houses, most recently at Tullett Prebon, now TPICAP, the worlds largest Inter Dealer Broker. Nick was formerly a Non-Executive Director of AMTE Power. Nick is a currently a Director of Corporate Broking at SI Capital.
Sam is a geologist with over 30 years of exploration management, project assessment and operational experience working for large multi-national and junior mining and exploration companies in eleven countries and covering a broad range of geological environments. He is a specialist in copper and gold exploration with additional experience in iron ore, base metals and other specialist commodities. Highlights of Mr Garrett's career include discovery credits for the Mt. Elliot Cu-Au mine (Qld), Dinkidi Cu-Au mine (Philippines), Tujuh Bukit Au-Ag-Cu mine (Indonesia) and the Havieron Au-Cu project (WA). Sam is an executive director of ASX-listed Flynn Gold Ltd and he holds non-executive positions in various public, private resource and consulting companies. Sam holds a BSc. Hons. in Geology and a Master of Economic Geology degree, both from the University of Tasmania. He also holds a Master of Applied Finance degree from Macquarie University in Australia. Mr. Garrett is a resident of Australia and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG).
Stuart is a geologist with sixteen years' experience working in southern Africa as a mine geologist and geological consultant with Western Areas gold mine, SRK Consulting, Knight Piesold, Venmyn Rand and others. Stuart is also a former Director of RMB Resources, the resource investment arm of First Rand Bank, where he spent 14 years as a mining financier with RMB Resources providing equity and debt finance to junior mining companies. He is currently a founding partner and director of Tanjun Capital Limited, the investment advisor to a credit fund investing in junior and mid-tier mining companies.