Company Directors
Our company directors knowledge and connections in multiple industries allow a diversity of opportunities. They are savvy and well adapted to provide shareholders with a trusted return on their investment.
Robin Birchall
CEO
Mr. Birchall has more than twenty years of experience in the financing and management of resource companies. Mr. Birchall is currently the Chairman of Evolution Energy Minerals Ltd and was most recently Chairman of Awale Resources Ltd and prior to that Chief Executive Officer & Director at Giyani Metals Corp. Before that he was the Executive Chair of Silver Bear Resources. Mr. Birchall was also a Non-Executive Director of Helium One Global. Previous roles include former Chief Executive Officer of a private oil and gas E&P company as well as Vice President Investment & Corporate Banking with BMO Capital Markets, where he completed a variety of high-profile transactions for resource companies.
Prior to BMO Capital Markets, Mr. Birchall was Vice President Corporate Finance at Canaccord Adams Ltd. Mr. Birchall earned an MBA from the University of Cape Town, a MSc in European and International Politics from Edinburgh University, a Première Degré en Langues Literature et Civilisation, from Stendahl Université and a BA from Queens University.
John Treacy
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
John Treacy qualified as a solicitor in the London office of a major international law firm where he specialised in Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions. From there he moved on to practice corporate finance in the advisory teams of several prominent UK brokerages where he acted as an adviser on numerous initial public offerings, acquisitions, debt restructurings and placings. He is an experienced London-based financier who specialises in working with growing companies.
Max Denning
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Max Denning is a mining executive with over a decade’s experience in the natural resources sector covering Europe, South America and Africa with a keen focus on future metals. Most recently, Max was CEO of Tungsten West plc, a company which he co-founded in 2019. During his tenure, Max bought the Hemerdon Tungsten and Tin Mine out of receivership, published the company’s Definitive Feasibility Study, secured all key offtake agreements and successfully raised >$100m project finance facility by way of debt, royalty and equity, the latter of which was achieved via an AIM IPO. Prior to Tungsten West plc, Max was GM Commercial and Finance at Pan African Minerals Ltd. Max holds a degree in Economics and Politics and an MSc in Accounting & Financial Management.
