Finding the Front

Elizabeth Gaines, Non-Executive Director and Global Ambassador of Fortescue Metals Group

In this episode of Euroz Hartleys Finding the Front we have a seriously super opportunity to sit down for a chat with one of Western Australia and Australia’s leading corporate and business leaders, long time Board member and former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group, Elizabeth Gaines.

To give you an idea of Elizabeth’s career recognition for those that aren’t familiar, she ranked second in the 2019 Fortune Magazine's Businessperson of the Year, in 2020 the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia awarded her the ‘Women in Resources Champion’ at the annual Women in Resources Awards and also in 2020, she was also awarded Joint Australian Business Person of the Year by the Australian Financial Review.

This podcast provides our listeners with a wonderful opportunity to hear about Elizabeth’s background on where she grew up in far northern and country WA, her close family environment through to a diversified international corporate career and experiences she has gained over many years at the top that delivers some amazing insights and captivating listening.

There are so many takeaways and perspectives from Elizabeth in this conversation  - we hope you enjoy.

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Paul Anderson, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Orthocell

In this episode we are hugely fortunate to have an absolute leader in their very specialist field join us on the show.

Our special guest is Mr Paul Anderson, CEO and Managing Director of ASX listed regenerative medicine company Orthocell.

Paul is a veteran of the regenerative medicine field which is a technology that has emerged over the last 20 years. The focus began with using cellular therapy for the regeneration of damaged cartilage. This focus, combined with Paul’s passion for his craft, has progressed through the founding of Orthocell to commercialising a range of different products for nerve, bone, tendon, ligament cartilage and soft tissue repair and regeneration – and includes doing a multi-million dollar deal with one of the largest dental companies in the world today.

This is a seriously great chat into entrepreneurialism and business building over the long term. We gain a look at Paul’s background and how he arrived in his field of expertise with an overview of a journey that has so many insights and takeaways.

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Ben Griffiths, Co-founder & Managing Director of Eley Griffiths Group

This episode we have the wonderful opportunity of having a highly regarded, veteran of the Funds Management industry on the show. Our special guest is Mr Ben Griffiths, the co founder of well known small and emerging company investment specialists Eley Griffiths.

Ben, who is based in Sydney and on a visit to Perth, grew up on the beautiful eastern suburbs beaches of Bronte, Tamarama and Bondi.  In this podcast, we take the time out to learn about Ben’s life and career journey where he has accumulated some 30 years of financial markets experience. This includes kicking off his love of investing at the early age of 16, how he started in Funds Management, learning the power of compounding, right through to co-founding Eley Griffiths Group with colleague and friend Brian Eley.

In this wide ranging conversation, Ben provides a provides a detailed look into the process of investing, small companies and gives his views on the current investing environment.

Ben has so much experience and provides a seriously good insight into life as a long time Fund Manager and the passion he has for his craft. There are many takeaways from this chat – we hope you enjoy.

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Tim Goyder, Chair of Liontown Resources & DevEx Resources

What an opportunity we have in this episode to spend some time with  our very special guest, Western Australian Entrepreneur, 40 plus year prospector, business owner and mining veteran Mr Tim Goyder.  Tim, who is Chair of Liontown Resources and DevEx Resources and former Chair of Chalice Mining,  was recently awarded the prestigious GJ Stokes Memorial Award at the 2022 Diggers and Dealers in Kalgoorlie for his significant and lasting contribution to the Mining Industry.

In this captivating and seriously insightful chat Tim shares his epic journey including family and life, his upbringing on the farm, prospecting and pegging his first tenements in his early 20s including his early dealings with Hancock and Wright, the early days of getting involved in listed companies, running a goldfields drilling company right through to the background and story behind his involvement in DevEx Resources and the two well documented success stories that eventuated being Chalice Mining and Liontown Resources. He also provides a wonderful look at a career dedicated to the Mining Industry and how he navigated his way through all the challenges to get to where he is today.

There are so many takeaways on life in this conversation - the ups and the downs - that come along the way in pursuit of a passion – delivered with humility and humour. It makes for compelling listening!

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Paul Moore, Founder, Chair & Chief Investment Officer of PM Capital

This episode we are so fortunate to have as our special guest on the show veteran Fund Manager Mr Paul Moore, the Founder, Chair and Chief Investment Officer of PM Capital based in Sydney.

Paul began his investment management career in 1985, approaching some 40 years ago and he has seen a lot over this time as you could imagine in building out what has been a very successful funds management and business career.

We cover off on Paul’s upbringing in Melbourne and Sydney, his love of AFL footy, how he came to become an Investment Management professional and how he arrived at his first investment management role at such a young age with Bankers Trust Australia which was so formative to his future pathway. We discuss family, starting his own business PM Capital in 1998 and the challenges of doing this at the height of the Tech boom of the late 90s. We look at investing through crises and significant market moments, and then drill down on the challenges of present day investing including inflation, interest rates, Russia, labour supply, supply chain constraints, electrical vehicles and the future facing battery metals, oil, gold and the potential outlook for the stock market with this all in mind. Paul is also a former Board member of the GWS Giants and he gives us an insight into the challenges of football in NSW.

We cover so much in this episode, it’s a real opportunity and a privilege to be able have a chat with someone with so much experience and who is incredibly interesting. 

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David Flanagan, AM CitWA Exec. Chair of Battery Minerals, Ind. Non-Exec Chair of Red Dirt Metals & Non-Exec Dir. of MACA

What an episode this, our Episode 20, is!

It was our great pleasure to spend some time with Mr David Flanagan AM CitWA. David grew up in the coastal city of Bunbury WA, went on to be a graduate of the WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering which led to a mining career where he was ultimately appointed the founding Managing Director of Atlas Iron Pty Ltd where he oversaw it's growth from a junior explorer to ASX top 50 company and the operator of three iron ore mines. 

He is currently Executive Chair of Battery Minerals Limited, Independent Non Executive Chair of Red Dirt Metals and the Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE) and a Non Executive Director of MACA Ltd.

David provides a captivating, passionate and expressive insight into his life and career plenty of great stories to boot! Including starting out, working in West Africa, exploration, the significant highs and the challenges of Atlas, the current battery minerals demand and the supply in WA vs our competition, the leading position of the WA Resources sector with regards to Space and the opportunity set for WA as a whole, and the challenges.

We hope you enjoy! 

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Diane Smith-Gander AO, Chair DDH1, HBF Health & Zip Co

This episode really is an absolute ripper!

We are very lucky to have an awesome opportunity to spend some time in conversation with the wonderful Diane Smith-Gander AO who has built an amazing corporate career over many years covering a wide range of Directorships across different entities, industries and geographies.

She has inspired so many with her achievements, the roles she has played and her drive to make a difference.

Diane was recently appointed Chair of private health insurer HBF, is current Chair of leading drilling services company DDH1, is current Chair of buy now pay later company Zip Co, is National Chair of the Committee for Economic Development in Australia, is independent Chair of the Nominations Committee for the World Anti Doping Agency and former Director of companies such as Wesfarmers where she was a member of this board for some 11 years, and former President of pre-eminent women’s advocacy group Chief Executive Women representing senior women leaders from the corporate, public service, academic and not for profit sectors.

In the 2019 Queens Birthday Honours, Diane was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of her “distinguished service to business, to womens engagement in executive roles, to gender equality and to the community”

This is such a wide-ranging conversation where Diane shares with us her experiences in life from growing up in Alfred Cove WA to school, education and the massive amount of accumulated experience she has learnt and gained through a hugely decorated corporate career – which is still going.

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Episode 18: David Maxwell, Managing Director of Cooper Energy

What an opportunity we have on this show to have as our special guest Mr David Maxwell, the Managing Director of ASX listed Cooper Energy, stock code COE.

David has achieved a massive amount in a career spanning more than 25 years as a leading oil and gas industry executive.

He shares with us his journey in the formative years of Woodside Energy which accumulated in him being appointed Director of the Gas and Marketing business unit and a member of the Woodside Executive Committee of just 5 people which was responsible for the strategy, planning and management of this major Company. During his time with Woodside, David was awarded the Australian Gas Association Silver Flame Award for significant contribution to the gas industry.

David was also a major part of the multinational oil and gas company BG Group, formerly known as British Gas, to build their Asia Pacific Liquid Natural Gas presence and to create a true global LNG business for the company, his rise and success at this company was outstanding and he shares the challenges and opportunities that he was presented with.

David has been the Managing Director of Cooper Energy for more than 10 years.

In 2019 he was awarded Western Australia’s prestigious John Doran Life Time Achievement Award for his contribution to the Australian Oil and Gas industry.

As is well known, there is uncertainty across the globe and here in Australia around the supply and cost of energy.  David shares with us his career and has some captivating insights into the oil and gas industry including his views on the current situation surrounding a shortage of gas, particularly given Cooper Energy operate two gas hubs out of South Eastern Australia.

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Episode 17: Jeff Quartermaine, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Perseus Mining

This episode we have a wonderful opportunity to have a great chat with a true leader, Mr Jeff Quartermaine, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of rapidly growing African Gold Producer, Developer and Explorer, Perseus Mining, stock code PRU.

Jeff, who grew up in far north Queensland, has had more than 30 years experience in senior corporate, financial and strategic management roles and has had some seriously amazing experiences in a career that has seen him journey to places such as Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and then spend the past 12 years focused on West Africa with Perseus Mining, building the company into the business it is today with a market cap currently in excess of $2 billion dollars. Jeff shares his views on working in the different regions, the rewards and challenges that come with it, mining and growing Perseus Mining.

This a fantastic episode. We hope you enjoy.  

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Episode 16: Patrick (Paddy) Gregg, Chief Executive Officer of Austal

Hey everyone and welcome to another fantastic episode of Euroz Hartleys “Finding the Front”!

This episode we are really fortunate to have as our special guest, Mr Paddy Gregg who is CEO of Austal Limited. Austal is Australia’s global shipbuilder and defence prime contractor designing, constructing and sustaining some of the world’s most advanced commercial and defence vessels.

Paddy grew up in Northern Ireland and has a seriously interesting story to tell on his accumulated experiences on his journey to being the leader he is today. These include building Hunter Killer Class Nuclear submarines for BAE Systems in England and time spent for Network Rail, the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

This episode provides some pretty amazing insights into the world of commercial and defence ship building. Paddy talks about the opportunity set in the US and expands on meta-trends such as regional instability, supply chain localisation, decarbonisation and also autonomy and automation which this in itself, after hearing from Paddy, seems not far away at all.

There is a lot in this episode and we hope you enjoy.

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