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Leading a team of three at Petra responsible for IR, PR engagement and ESG reporting in this London-listed diamond miner. A key focus has been to reinvigorate the IR franchise, to rebuild trust and broaden the share register. Against a backdrop of increasingly challenging markets, this has involved redefining the investment case to appeal to generalist and retail investors while ensuring a successful refinancing with bondholders. Focus on constantly refining the investor relations strategy and educating markets to broaden the shareholder base and grow into new UK regional and overseas markets plus UK retail.

London, England, United Kingdom

Investor Relations Adviser to the Board

Headed a team of three in this FTSE 250 Russian gold miner, acting as the company’s interface with equity and debt investors and analysts. Responsible for ensuring market knowledge and understanding of company strategy, operations and financial performance. Interaction with multiple internal functions: finance, technical, communications and the Board. Ensuring regulatory compliance and delivering the annual report.• Continuous improvement with direct targeted investor engagement has resulted in share price outperformance and a re-rating vs. peers, increase of research and new investors.

London Area, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the $300M+ structured project financing strategy in this private UK-based coking coal company, including financing strategy, exit strategy options for its private equity owner, running corporate model, capital raisings and engagement with debt and equity markets.

London, United Kingdom

A key member of the London Metals & Mining investment banking team responsible for corporate finance and capital markets advisory services to UK mining sector: origination, M&A, debt & equity advisory, fundraising, corporate strategy and communications.• Raised Cantor’s profile with corporates and investors, delivered new corporate clients and undertook capital raises in tough market conditions.

Geneva, Switzerland

Co-managed and grew several 'highly-rated' equity and commodity funds totalling US$600m+ invested across Global Metals & Mining, Gold, Critical Metals, Energy and Commodity verticals.• Led financial analysis and investment due-diligence of equities, incorporating top-down fundamental macro-economic & commodity research with rigorous bottom-up quantitative & qualitative evaluation.• Achieved exceptional track record, averaging 10%+ per annum on risk-adjusted basis vs. benchmark. • Awarded prestigious Citywire AAA rating. Rated top European Gold Fund by Lipper in 2009 and 2010. Citywire’s top performing Gold Equity Fund globally over 5 years (2011).• Conceived and implemented innovative new funds, including Beyond Carbon Metals to focus on critical metals.

Geneva, Switzerland

Employed as financial analyst for independent asset manager with US$5bn in Assets Under Management and rapidly promoted to Fund Manager for US$120m IAM Gold & Metals Fund;• Led analysis and forecasting of equities, incorporating top-down fundamental macro-economic and commodity research with rigorous bottom-up quantitative & qualitative evaluation.• Increased firm’s revenues through consistent outperformance and accurate trading recommendations.

London, United Kingdom

Co-coverage of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Xstrata, Norddeutsche Affinerie and Lonmin as part of European Metals & Mining team. Increased ranking to second place with institutional investor.

London, Royaume-Uni

Delivered sector expertise to corporate finance function in close collaboration with M&A teams guiding them through to execution with focus on UK and South African miners.

Burkina Faso

Advanced exploration of Perkoa zinc deposit in Burkina Faso and scouted for base metals in Morocco.

Executive Mba With Distinction (Graduated In Top 10% Of Class), Finance Specialism

Dissertation used an entirely new approach to understanding commodity cycles and their impact on equities by using algorithms to extract.

Msc, Royal School Of Mines - Mineral Project Appraisal

Activities and Societies: Member of Imperial College Boat Club

Bsc Hons, Geology, 2.1

3Rd Year Studying With World Class Experts In Gold, Diamonds, Geochemistry

Education record