About Andrew

Andrew leads Xenith’s advisory services providing clients with industry-leading technical, due diligence, valuation and expert witness services. He has played a key role in broadening Xenith’s commodity expertise by diversifying the team’s metals capabilities and leading Xenith’s establishment of its business in Western Australia.

Andrew has vast experience across a variety of commodities and commodity environments including gold, base metals, mineral sands, iron ore and coal with Australian and international operations.

His 20-year career in the mining industry features mine management roles with Anglo American and a corporate secondment to the global mining house’s London headquarters.

Andrew’s comprehensive operational and management experience is complemented by 12 years in financial advisory and equity markets as a top ranked resources sector analyst with leading financial institutions, the Commonwealth Bank and PwC.

He has extensive professional relationships with executives in mining corporations and the institutional investment market as well as considerable skills in strategic relationship management and cross-cultural border exposure.

Skills and expertise

• Industry: Extensive experience across a wide range of commodities including coal, gold, base metals, mineral sands and iron ore. Management of large and complex operations, leadership of large multifunctional workforces of 700+, joint venture and project governance.
• Financial: Specialist skills in financial modelling, company and project valuation, strategy and the macro commodity environment. Comprehensive market, operational, strategic and financial analysis, equity and institutional investor guidance.
• Business improvement: Operational turnaround and organisational change, operating cost optimisation. Negotiation and owners’ representative services.
• Safety and sustainable development: Recognised safety and sustainable development leader, specialist advisor to corporate and divisional executive including audits of diverse operating divisions.
• Corporate advisory: Expert witness services, financial evaluation and valuation services for exploration, mining, energy and infrastructure companies and government departments.

Career highlights

• German Creek Open Cut Mine: Led operations turnaround from a point of forecast closure to long-term mine life extension (Oak Park) underpinning acquisition and development of neighbouring tenements (Lake Lindsay).
• Moura Mine: Instituted management processes, disciplines and structures to position the operation for Dawson mine expansion.
• Financial: Successful record as a senior mining equities analyst, top three ranked mining and metals analyst by top 15 Australian Institutional Investors (Peter Lee survey).