He is well respected in the industry - but really high...

He is well respected in the industry - but really high profile
Early days worked for Normandy and Rio
and in last 10-15 years a long association with Twiggy- was GM geology for Anaconda so proved up a shed load of laterite nickel. Pegged the ground for Fortescue before moving out on his own with a boutique mining finance firm.
Since then-
Instrumental in resuscitating Comdek into RES
Helped Revamp Epsilon to Azimuth
Bathurst Resources IPO
and a few other things along the way.