He has over 20 years' experience in the mining industry, with the last 11 spent at Kinross Gold, where he was most recently director of commercial and supply chain management operations and part of the leadership team at the Kupol mine in Far East Russia.

He previously worked at Berma Gold, before it was acquired by Kinross, where he was director of finance, and before that also held managerial positions at Teck Resources in Canada.