I am Principal of Northshore Capital Advisors Pty Ltd.Northshore Capital Advisors Pty Ltd specialises in providing resource sector consulting in financial modelling, target generation, commercial services, due diligence across all stages of mining projects. As such I have been building financial models of mining projects for 10 years both for clients and for my own portfolio analysis. Prior to this I spent 18 years in international commercial and strategic management in various industries. My client work on mining assignments has encompassed projects in Australia, Africa, South America and Europe.I have worked on the following commodities: gold, copper, tantalum, niobium, zinc/lead/silver, phosphates, potash, lithium. I have worked on both open pit and underground assignments.I am an Australian qualified accountant (CPA) and have been professionally trained in financial modelling, valuation and hedging. In 2009 I completed the Kaplan / Finsia Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance as National Dux and was awarded state prizes in Mining Investment Analysis and Foreign Exchange Trading.My degree is in modern languages from Oxford University and I am fluent in English, French and German and speak some Spanish and Italian.