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I am one of four partners in Plinian Capital, a private equity firm actively managing investments in mining and exploration companies worldwide.

Integrity Leadership Systems implements business operating environments that are whole and complete—providing integrated support for the shifts in “being”, “thinking, and “doing” necessary to deliver breakthrough, intended results. An implementation draws on the individual and group transformational approach of the Vanto Group for the “being” part, and the web-enabled, strategic performance management platform of InPhase for the “thinking” and “doing” part. The deliverable is a strategic performance model that makes visible cause/effect hypotheses leading to organization success and serves as both the strategic plan and the client implementation management system going forward. In addition to leading implementations directly for clients, Integrity Leadership Systems develops branded performance management platforms for sales partners, who then implement their own consulting approaches with their own clients.

Worldwide

Since 2009 I have been engaged in creating and growing Mandalay Resources, a gold-silver mining company with three operations producing an annual 165,000 oz gold equivalent as of 2016. Having raised only $33 million in equity, the market cap has grown to >$350 million while paying cumulative dividends of over $38 million. While I have been at Mandalay, I have led the four acquisitions to form the company, recruited key managers and technical leaders, formed and led the executive team for planning and delivery of operational plans, formed and led the exploration team, and delivered the investor communications.

Implemented Enterprise Performance Management process.* Modeled cause/effect relations of objectives across matrix, product lines, and key initiatives (Product Life Cycle Management, Key Account Management, and Lean Six Sigma) using Balanced Scorecard software. * Critical performance measures improved:o Sales grew at 15% rate to $300M/yr, o Estimated cost savings > $3M first year,o On-time delivery increased from 93 to 95%,o Returns rate halved from 6000 to 3000 PPM,o Scrap rate decreased from >4% to 3%, o Inventory turns increased from <2.5 to >3.5,o Hiring time to fill improved from 1.25 to 1, ando New product idea generation, product pipeline value, and project timeliness became measurable and grew to 100/yr, $20M, and 85% respectively.* As member of Senior Leadership Team, facilitated regular strategic performance reviews, managed issues agenda, and shared project gate keeping.* Championed development of leadership capabilities of top managers.

Designed and led campaign to transform company from successful small business up against limits of its abilities into organization of people, relationships, thinking, and actions delivering sustained profitable growth.* Developed and facilitated executive workshops to assess current state, jointly commit to future state, and design key initiatives to deliver future state, including:o Renewing basic communications and relationships,o Managing product life cycle supported by financial and operational information,o Developing new products and technologies through stage-gated projects and portfolio management,o Shifting revenue-oriented sales force to network of key account managers focused on generating high net present value opportunities for given level of investment,o Improving selected business processes, ando Aligning short and long-term incentive compensation with strategy.* Monitored, integrated, and coached key projects and generated key interventions as needed.

Designed and delivered $5-250K+ strategic planning events to clients of boutique organizational consulting firm dedicated to generating breakthroughs in strategic thinking. Clients included high-tech, health care, manufacturing, multimedia, and governmental organizations (e.g. Hewlett Packard, excite@home, Kaiser Permanente, Knight Ridder, Liberty Corporation).

Formulated strategy for world’s largest private sector copper producer (at that time, $5B in assets producing 2B lbs/yr copper). Directly managed strategic information and planning staff with dotted line to operational planners at operations in US, Chile, Peru, and Papua New Guinea.* Revolutionized BHP’s understanding of copper business, leading to major exit decision with $2B+ balance sheet impact; co-managed resulting asset sale. * Created low-cost, simple, and flexible financial model integrating previous BHP operations with acquired Magma operations to support strategic decision-making. * Implemented portfolio management process for maximizing value of pipeline of growth projects from concept through feasibility stage.* Created new project “radar screen” that ranked all available internal and external growth projects on risk/reward basis to clarify optimum growth portfolio; resulted in obtaining option on key new project (Tenke Fungurume).

Led planning, innovation, and growth management processes. * Accelerated pace of exploration to $25M/year (in US, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Philippines, and Mongolia). Led exploration team to make two world-class discoveries in three years:o Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia, ando Superior (Resolution) in Arizona.* Managed geologic due diligence for acquisition team that won Peruvian government auction of Tintaya Mine. Implemented follow-up exploration program resulting in rapid, significant improvement in reserves.* Created strategic planning and accountability system for goal setting and measurement tied to incentive compensation.* Provided analytic and strategic support of leadership team for overall organizational transformation campaign that shifted union-management relations from adversarial to collaborative, reduced cost of producing copper from >$0.80/lb to <$0.60/lb, and nearly doubled production to 700M lbs/yr.* Facilitated Board of Directors and Executive Committee meetings.

Created initial corporate strategic planning process. Created and managed corporate innovation processes (Exploration and Research & Development programs).* Created cross-functional (engineering, geology, operations, consultants) ore reserve team. Implemented ore reserve management system for reserve planning from grassroots exploration through 10-K reserves and production.* Extended exploration program to greenfields projects in US, Chile, and Mexico. * Evaluated potential acquisitions.

Led Mine Geology function across all mines. Improved geologic input to reserve calculations; optimized mine and smelter operational plans. Formed exploration team and initiated exploration around existing mines.

Generated and tested precious metals exploration projects in Nevada and Utah.

Ph.D., Applied Earth Sciences- Ore Deposits And Exploration

M.S., Applied Earth Sciences-- Geostatistics

B.A., Geology, Economics

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Masquers, Scrutiny