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The highly experienced technical and financial team, has overseen 60+ mine builds and over US$200bn of mining sector transactions, and works in a close and collaborative manner with management teams to deliver optimal results

The Appian Team

PAUL HARVEY

Senior Operating Partner

DESCRIPTION

Based in Perth, Western Australia, Paul is a Senior Operating Partner at Appian and is responsible for providing operational oversight with Appian’s portfolio companies and advice with the analysis and evaluation of potential investments.

Paul’s career spans 35 years across a wide spectrum of the global resources sector with the last 20 years in executive, operational and projects leadership.

Prior to joining Appian, he was COO of South32 with accountability for the global manganese business, steelmaking coal, base metals assets and major capital projects across Australia. After 23 years with BHP, Paul moved to join the South32 executive leadership team as Chief Transformation Officer establishing South32 in the industry’s largest demerger from BHP. His prior roles at BHP included President of the fully integrated Nickel West business and President and COO of Ekati Diamonds in arctic Canada. He began his career in underground gold and diamond mining in South Africa in the 1980s and 90s. His career includes commodity experience in gold, base metals, copper / uranium, bauxite / alumina, manganese, nickel, coal for steel and diamonds, and in major projects construction.

Paul is Australian, has lived in 4 continents and worked in Canada, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Colombia, Australia and the USA. He has held a number of Directorships, JV Chairman roles and Industry Group leadership roles. Paul is currently a member of Wyloo Metals Advisory Committee, and Independent Non-Executive Director of De Grey Mining.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from the Western Australian School of Mines, completed the Kellogg Executive Development Program, and is a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

*  Paul acts as consultant to the Fund and is not an employee of Appian Capital Advisory LLP

MICHAEL W. SCHERB

Founder and CEO

GUILLERMO KAELIN

Managing Partner

GRAHAM BROWN

Senior Operating Partner

PAUL HARVEY

Senior Operating Partner

WILLIAM LAMB

Senior Operating Partner

GRAEME DELL

Chief Operating Officer

MONICA PINTO

Chief Financial Officer

IGOR GONZALES

Chief Operating Officer (technical)

RICHARD JOHNSON

Global Head of Investor Relations

WINTA JARVIS

General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

TIMOTHY MISTER

Head of Credit & Royalties

ANTTI GRÖNLUND

Managing Director, Private Equity

ALYSSA McANNEY

Head of Legal, Global M&A

IGNACIO BUSTAMANTE

Head of Base Metals

ALEX THOMPSON

COO, Base Metals

MILOS AMATI

CFO, Base Metals

SILVIO LIMA

Head of Corporate Affairs, ESG and Community Engagement

GEOFFREY COHEN

Senior Advisor North America

RICHY XIE

Head of Asia

K2 MAPASA

Head of Africa

RALPH PENNER

Director of Mining

KEN BRISEBOIS

Director, Mineral Evaluations

ADAM FISHER

Managing Director

YOHAN SANMUGAM

Principal

DAMIEN BRYANT

Director, Processing and Metallurgy

AUGUSTO CHUNG

Director, Processing and Metallurgy

PERCY CONDORI

Director, Processing and Metallurgy

TREVOR KRAWCHYK

Head of Continuous Improvement

RICHARD CLARK

Global Head of Specialty Materials and Processing

BENJAMIN MUSTON

Senior Vice President

JOSÉ MONTOYA

Senior Vice President, Latin America

JEAN LAFLEUR

Senior Consultant, North America

DAVID ALLISON

VP of Operations

CHRIS ANDERSON

VP of Tailings

KEIRAN WHITEFIELD

VP of Global Maintenance

MARCUS SCHOLZ

VP Mining

RICHARD HATCHER

Senior Geologist

DARREN PARSONS

Senior Geologist

HECTOR SALAS

Senior Geologist, Mexico

LUCAS SARTO

Project Management Officer

TIM O’DONNELL

Vice President

EMMA LEITH

Head of Sustainability, Base Metals

ANDREW TODD

Head of Communications

DEREK MARLOW

Senior Associate

JÃœRGEN UHLMANN

Senior Associate

AIMAN CHBARY

Senior Associate

STEFAN STROBELE

Senior Associate

VICTORIA TWEEDIE

Resource Geologist

MELODY DONG

Head of Commodity Research

NIKKI MIAO

Investment Associate

MAURICIO ELESPURU

Investment Associate

SEBASTIAN MACIAS BRANDES

Associate (Base Metals)

MARTIN BARAKSO

Investment Analyst

JASON SANTIXIS

Investment Analyst

NEESHAL RAO

Group Financial Controller

ABDUL OSMAN

Fund Controller

ADRIANO FAGUNDES

Director, ANRH Cooperatief U.A.

AMABELLE MORAS

Senior Finance Manager

JOSH HAYNES

Corporate Accountant

SANSKRITA MEHTA

Senior Accountant

OUTI NEVALA

Chief of Staff

MOYA WOODER

Office Manager

HUSSEIN JANMOHAMED

Personal Assistant to the CEO

OLIVIA MCLAREN

Personal Assistant to the CEO

TOM DE NERT

Head of Marketing and Design/Graphics

ROMINA ASTE

Executive Assistant

CIOSA HANRAHAN

Executive Assistant

SANDRA LAMARO

Executive Assistant

ALISON GORDON

Executive Assistant

SIMONA DIRVELYTE

Executive Assistant

BETHAN RICHARDS

Executive Assistant

MEGAN MAHLANGOVE

Administrative Assistant

FELIX LODGE

Executive Assistant

MINOU MOUSSAVI

Receptionist