Keep up with the latest executive movements across the mining sector, featuring Mineral Resources, Fortescue Future Industries, Matador Mining and more.
Mineral Resources (MRL) has added Santos managing director and chief executive officer Kevin Gallagher to its board as an independent non-executive director.
Gallagher played an important role in the recent merger between Oil Search and Santos and earlier in his career served as the CEO of Woodside Petroleum’s North West Shelf venture.
MRL has also established a sustainability committee which will support and advise the board on its sustainability strategy. This will be chaired by Susie Corlett and include committee members, Xi Xi and James McClements.
“MRL is committed to continually improving its sustainability performance to provide the metals and minerals which the world needs to transition to a low-carbon future,” MRL chair Peter Wade said.
“As part of our commitment, we are delighted to welcome Kevin to the MRL family. His extensive corporate background and knowledge of the Australian energy market will be of great value to MRL.”
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Stan Knez has joined Fortescue Metals Group’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) as its chief technology officer.
Knez was most recently chief technology officer at Technip Energies and has 30 years’ experience in alliance technology partnerships and global technology portfolios.
FFI chief executive officer Julie Shuttleworth said Knez will play an important role in FFI’s continued advancement.
“Innovation and world-leading technology are key to tackling global warming. FFI’s chief technology officer will be a key contributor to FFI cementing itself as a technology leader,” she said.
“We are looking forward to Stan joining the FFI team. He brings proven leadership skills and a strong track record in identifying early phase energy transition technologies for potential strategic positioning or investment.”
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Matador Mining has appointed respected Canada-based mining professional Sam Pazuki as its chief executive officer.
Commencing as CEO in May, Pazuki’s extensive gold industry and global capital markets network experience will assist Matador as it advances its Cape Ray gold project in Newfoundland, Canada.
Pazuki joins Matador after almost ten years at OceanaGold Corporation, where he was influential in the company’s expansion into North America.
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Justin Richard is the new chief executive officer and managing director of Oar Resources, bringing with him more than 15 years’ experience in senior international and resource sector roles.
Richard most recently served managing director of Alara Resources, and was instrumental in the execution of multiple capital raisings, a maiden ore reserve, a bankable feasibility study and offtake agreement.
An initial focus of Richard’s role at Oar will be to complete a thorough review of the company’s projects and strategy, with an eye to the continued development of Oar’s Crown nickel-copper-platinum group elements (PGE) project and Nevada gold assets.
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Future Metals has welcomed Jardee Kininmonth as chief executive officer and Brian Talbot as operational and technical lead advisor.
In their previous roles, both Kininmonth and Talbot held senior management positions at Galaxy Resources. Kininmonth was corporate development manager at Galaxy while Talbot served as the company’s head of Australian operations.
Coinciding with Kininmonth and Talbot’s appointments, existing non-executive director Justin Tremain will assume the role of non-executive chair with executive chair Greg Bandy announcing his retirement.
Future Metals is currently developing its Panton PGE project in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, which comprises three granted mining leases across approximately 23 square kilometres.