Dr Julian Stephens – Geologist, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAIGI have extensive experience in the resources sector having spent in excess of 20 years in board, executive management, senior operational, and economic geology research roles for private and public companies. I began my career in the Eastern Goldfields of WA, and between 1995 and 1999 worked as a mine and exploration geologist at a number of operations. From 1999 to 2003 I completed my PhD on Canadian intrusion-related gold deposits at James Cook University in Queensland and then worked as a consulting geologist in western Canada between 2003 and 2004. I was employed as a senior structural/economic geology consultant for mining consultancy RSG Global between 2004 and 2006 and then held the position of Exploration Manager and Exploration Director at Globe Metals and Mining from 2006 to 2010.I identified the ground in Malawi now held by Sovereign Metals and as Managing Director I led the team that discovered the world-class Kasiya rutile-graphite deposit. Kasiya at 18Mt contained rutile is the largest rutile deposit in the world whilst also being the second largest flake graphite deposit in globally.