John Forwood is a qualified geologist and lawyer with 17 years of resources financing experience, including 13 years as a fund manager. He also has five years’ experience in exploration and development geology in Australia, Tanzania and Indonesia, and has previously qualified to practise as a barrister and solicitor. Mr Forwood oversees the Lowell Resources Fund (ASX: LRT), an ASX-listed equity fund managed by Lowell Resources Funds Management. It is one of the few investment funds offering focused exposure to the junior resources sector across Australia and global stock exchanges in both unlisted and listed companies.Read More

Roscoe Widdup co-founded T8 Capital in 2020 and has deep experience of the financial investment industry. He spent eight years with Goldman Sachs, including five years in its Asset Management Division as an investment manager responsible for mining and energy stocks within the division’s A$7 billion Australian equities portfolios. Mr Widdup spent two years in Goldman Sachs’ Securities Division as an analyst in the Mining Research team. He has also worked at Rio Tinto as a financial analyst and at Ernst & Young in the Risk Advisory Services Division. Triple Eight Capital manages two funds focused on gold and clean energy equities and is 100% owned by its investment team.Read More

responsibilities across equity and multi-asset strategies. He has more than 12 years’ experience in the finance industry, including portfolio management and sell-side investment research. Founded in 2015, Banyantree Investment Group operates as a private investment company that offers specialised investment research and investment management services, including portfolio management, trading and corporate advisory services. The group’s investment architecture combines a proprietary quantitative real-time, automated approach with a proprietary qualitative approach in search of investment returns for clients.Read More

Joseph Webb is a resource industry executive with more than 20 years’ international experience including the past 10+ years in CEO and Managing Director roles. He has held previous commercial roles in Rio Tinto and executive and operations roles across the full mining life cycle. He is experienced across multiple commodities including gold, copper, iron-ore, nickel and coal as well as M&A, capital raising and IPOs. Mr Webb leads Mine Discovery Fund Pty Ltd, a private investment vehicle that owns four ‘platforms’ focused on discovering base and precious metals, including Felix Gold Ltd (ASX: FXG) which has consolidated the largest land holding within Alaska’s world-class Tintina Gold Belt.Read More

Jeremy Gray is a mining investment professional and industry veteran with almost three decades’ experience as a Mining Equity Analyst, Mining Portfolio Manager and Investment Banker. He has headed the mining research divisions of industry leaders Standard Chartered Bank, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Mr Gray oversees Laiva Gold Inc which owns the largest gold plant in Europe (US$400 million+ replacement cost) and also sits on an 854-kilo ounce (Koz) measured, inferred and indicated resource with an exploration upside of 2-4 million ounces. Laiva Gold is ready to produce, targeting a 50-80 Koz per annum with an 11+ year mine life.Read More

Hedley Widdup is a geologist and investment professional with extensive mine and resource geology experience spanning WMC Resources at the Mt Keith Nickel Mine, Olympic Dam, Mt Isa and St Ives Gold Mine. He graduated as a geologist with first class honours from the University of Melbourne in 2000 and completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance in 2011. Lion Manager Pty Limited is a specialist mining investment team that provides investment management services to Lion Selection Group Ltd (ASX: LSX), an investment company with a market-beating 25-year total shareholder return of 8.2% (as at 30 April 2023) compared with the ASX Small Resources AC Index at 4.8%.The firm invests in the high growth early stage mining development space where research is poor and specialist knowledge is essential.Read More