Board
Inside Ownership Ordinary Shares %C79 Issued Net Value at $5.70
Rob Adamson 7,586,500 6.60% $43.243m
Ivan Mellado 200,000 0.17% $1.140m
Brett Boynton 207,820 0.18% $1.184m
Eric Ford 148,000 0.13% $843.6K
Kerry Gleeson 8,193 0.01% $46.7K
Greg Holt 0 0 0
Dirk Treasure 896,911 0.79% $5.112m
Total 9,047,424 7.87% $51.570m
Board Bio's
Rob Adamson - Chairman
Mr Rob Adamson spent the early part of his career as an engineer on mine sites working for Anglo American, before moving into a corporate advisory and investment role at RFC Ambrian Group where he is currently Executive Chairman. Longevity, transactional experience, due diligence exercises, strategic reviews, and experience developing commercial operating plans for large resources businesses, has given him a deep understanding of the resources sector. He has used this deep industry knowledge and commercial nous and combined it with the outstanding technology developed by the CSIRO to co-found Chrysos Corporation.
Rob also serves as Chairman of NextOre, Conveyor Manufacturers Australia and RFC Ambrian’s ESVCLP Basic Industries Venture Fund 1, an RFC Ambrian Impact Fund, and is passionate about supporting Australia’s emerging technologies in heavy industries. Rob has made it RFC Ambrian Group’s mission to continue investing in disruptive technologies, and to be an Impact Investor making a difference on a global scale.
Ivan Mellado - Director
Mr Ivan Mellado is a specialist in technology commercialisation, new venture development and strategic intellectual property management. He works with entrepreneurs in high growth companies, universities and scientific institutions to build business opportunities around novel technologies and intellectual property. Mr Mellado is well regarded for negotiating technology licenses, divestitures, and acquisitions, leading and financing early stage commercialisation ventures, and supporting early stage/growth companies with capital raising and M&A expertise.
With 25 years’ experience, Mr Mellado has developed executive and board level expertise across several sectors. He is currently Managing Director of Mellado & Co Pty Limited, Executive Chairman of Nimblic Pty Limited and a senior corporate advisor with Fawkner Capital Management Pty Limited.
Brett Boynton - Director
Mr Brett Boynton is the co-founder and Managing Director of Signature Gold Limited. Highly qualified in the field of finance, Mr Boynton has an international investment banking background with UBS in London and New York, and Credit Suisse in Australia. He has raised capital for a number of energy and resource companies, both at IPO and on the secondary markets, and managed acquisition, joint venture and divestiture of a number of projects and assets. Mr Boynton is currently Chairman of London listed Stratmin Global Holdings Plc and sits of the board of a number of private companies.
Mr Boynton has an undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is also a CFA Charter Holder.
Eric Ford - Director
Mr Eric Ford has led, built, and turned around complex businesses encompassing large workforces in diverse geographies, cultures, currencies, and languages. This has included all lifecycle phases from feasibility through to closure and final rehabilitation in highly regulated and unionized environments across three continents. With a deep passion for mentoring and coaching, his reputation is one of creating high performing businesses founded on a culture of achievement, accountability and trust that span a diversity of cultures, customs, generations, skills, practices and beliefs. He is considered an influential executive team member and thought leader in the global industry with previous participation in the Coal Industry Advisory Board to the International Energy Agency as well as current local industry associations including the Minerals Council of Australia.
Mr Ford’s prior experience includes numerous executive roles within globally recognised mining companies during a career that spans almost 50 years in the industry.
Kerry Gleeson - Director
Ms Kerry Gleeson is an experienced Non-Executive Director with a 30-year career as a senior executive and lawyer, and brings to the Chrysos Board experience in the mining and chemicals industries across both Australia and the UK. She is a Non-Executive Director of St Barbara Limited (ASX: SBM) and of New Century Limited (ASX:NCR) both of which follow her career as a Group Executive member at Incitec Pivot Limited (ASX:IPL) where she was General Counsel and Company Secretary, overseeing its international operations in explosives and chemicals, mining, transport and logistics.
Ms Gleeson also has experience in international governance, mergers and acquisitions, complex corporate finance transactions, and risk and crisis management. She has also led the Corporate Affairs function dealing in government, media and regulatory affairs including in relation to major environmental remediation projects. Earlier in her career, Ms Gleeson practised as a corporate lawyer in both Australia and the UK, where as a partner she focused on corporate M&A transactions, IPOs, plus debt and equity issues; including acting for early-stage technology companies in the areas of technology commercialisation and financing.
Greg Holt - Director
Mr Holt is a senior executive with an international career spanning over 40 years across the logistics, industrial services, mining contracting and engineering industries. He is also an experienced company Director (GAICD) and Board member, having previously held Board positions with Brambles companies in the United Kingdom, and Swire companies in Australia and the United States. Mr Holt’s strong track record includes driving and finalising successful global expansion and business optimisation projects.
Mr Holt is currently the CEO of Swire Water Holdings, which is a member of the Swire Group of Companies, a business with which Mr Holt has held Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer positions since 2010. Prior to Swire, Mr Holt worked within Brambles in senior executive positions across several of its subsidiaries and helped lead the transition of Brambles into BIS as part of the KKR acquisition.
Dirk Treasure - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mr Dirk Treasure is a metallurgist with both technical and corporate experience. He has a Bachelor of Mineral Science from Murdoch University in Perth and has been an active member of the mining industry since 2006. He is a member of AusIMM and AICD and was recently awarded the Komatsu-sponsored Emerging Leader of the Year Award by Australian Mining Monthly. Mr Treasure spent seven years in novel metallurgical process design employed by service providers and mining companies directly. He has designed, built, and managed pilot plants across various deployment scales for hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and electrolytic technologies. His technical experience includes working as the Principle HPAL/Leach Metallurgist for Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations and, during his time as Operations Manager of ABR Process Development, he oversaw development of technology from conceptual design to commercial reality.
Prior to joining Chrysos, Mr Treasure worked within the financial and commercial side of the mining industry. During his time in corporate finance at RFC Ambrian, he oversaw Chrysos’ seed capital raising and company formation. He also managed the transaction for acquisition of the underlying PhotonAssay technology from CSIRO. He has joined Chrysos Corporation as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, a role he has held since the company began operations in January 2017.
