Our Team
A well-balanced team of professionals with solid experience in the Australian mining sector and a track record of delivering business growth
Mark Stephenson (Executive Director)
Mark has over 30 years’ experience of working for stockbrokers in the City of London including Panmure Gordon, West LB, Blue Oar Securities and NCL Investments – now a Smith & Williamson group company. With the development of the AIM market, Mark has utilised his experience in equity, debt, and convertibles to develop innovative financing solutions, for small and mid-size companies. In the last three years he has built a liquidity platform in conjunction with several hedge funds, private client brokers and a syndicate of high-net-worth investors, which has successfully funded smaller companies during this difficult period.
Lee Daniels (Executive Director)
Lee is an experienced qualified accountant (Australian Certified Practicing Accountant). He has worked in London over the last two decades and has held senior finance roles with HSBC (Global Markets), Credit Suisse, ABN AMRO (Wholesale Markets) and LTSB(Group) (Distressed Debt Division). He has an established track record in Finance and Accounting, Change Management, Project Evaluation & Financial Modelling. Most recently, in the last few years, he has been working in the Oil and Gas industry for a public E&P company.
Neil Hutchison (Chief Technical Officer)
Neil has more than 25 years’ experience in the mining industry, working throughout Australia and overseas. He has a track record of mineral discovery, resource and reserve definition, project development, evaluations, and acquisitions. Neil was Exploration Superintendent at the Cosmos Nickel Project with Jubilee Mines and was part of the team that discovered the Alec Mairs, Prospero and Tapinos deposits which led to the AUD$3.1 billion takeover of Jubilee Mines by Xstrata in 2007. Neil graduated with First Class Honours in Geology from the University of Southern Queensland and is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG). He is also a non-executive director of ASX listed Kairos Minerals, a company with a gold project in Western Australia, and Estrella Resources Limited.
Lindsay Mair (Non-Executive Director)
Lindsay is an experienced investment banker with a 30-year career in the City. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Touche Ross (now Deloitte) in 1987. He then worked in the corporate finance departments of various City firms, most recently at SP Angel (which has a broad range of clients in the mining sector). From 2017 until 2019, he was a non-executive director of Kin Group plc, which acquired Bidstack Limited in a reverse takeover, where he assisted with the takeover and a number of fundraisings. He is the Chief Financial Officer of Low 6 Limited, which operates a B2B gamification platform for sports franchises.