Ronnie has had over 40 years experience in investment banking and mining. He was Head of Investment Banking at Rothchild Australia between 1997 and 2002. Since then he has been Chair or a Non-Executive director of a range of mining companies, both in Australia and internationally.Ronnie is currently Chair of Bannerman Energy Ltd, that is focussed on bringing into production its large-scale Etango uranium project in Namibia. Chair of Felix Gold, which has substantial gold exploration properties around Fairbanks, Alaska on the Tintina Gold Belt. Non-Executive Director of Mont Royal Resources, which has a portfolio of Precious, Base and Battery Metals minerals (including nickel, copper and lithium) in the highly prospective James Bay region of Quebec.Previously he was Chair of AIM listed EMED Mining which acquired, re-developed and operates the original and now 15mtpa Rio Tinto copper mine in southern Spain. Ronnie’s extensive career as a company director included serving on the boards of Riversdale Resources (which proved up the substantial Grassy Mountain metallurgical coal deposit in Alberta, Canada and was taken over by Hancock Prospecting for A$800M in 2019), Talison Lithium (which acquired the Greenbushes lithium mine in WA and was taken over by Tianqi Lithium for C$900M in 2013), Ampella Mining (which was developing a major gold discovery in Burkina Faso, until taken over by Centamin plc in 2014) and Oxiana (which developed the substantial gold and copper operations at Sepon in Laos, acquired the Golden Grove polymetallic mine in WA and developed the Prominent Hill mine in SA, and which in 2008 merged with Zinifex to form OZ Minerals).Ronnie has an Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and qualified as a chartered accountant in London.