Finding the Front

Episode 11 Part A: Bill Beament, Managing Director of Develop

Hey everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode of Euroz Hartleys Finding the Front.

This episode we have an absolutely stellar opportunity to chat with Mr Bill Beament, the Managing Director of ASX listed base metal developer and specialist underground mining service provider, Develop.

Bill was the former Managing Director and Executive Chair of Northern Star having been with company for some 14 years overseeing a massive expansion from junior to a global scale Australian gold producer with world class projects in highly prospective regions of Australia and America.

This podcast has it all, the highs and the lows, over two full parts A & B - from Bill’s upbringing in country WA, to his days learning the art of underground mining, to joining Northern Star - the phenomenal growth path including the acquisitions, how the purchase of half of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit played out, the merger with Saracen Minerals - and what he is up to now, his views on Develop and his pathway forward.

Bill is a board trustee of prominent WA charity Telethon, a Patron of Western Australia School of Mines Curtin University Alumni, and was named 2016 CEO of the Year by the Australian Financial Review as well as First Amongst Equals at the 2013 Business News Forty under 40 Awards.

This is a cracker without a doubt, we hope you enjoy.

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Episode 11 Part B: Bill Beament, Managing Director of Develop

Hey everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode of Euroz Hartleys Finding the Front.

This episode we have an absolutely stellar opportunity to chat with Mr Bill Beament, the Managing Director of ASX listed base metal developer and specialist underground mining service provider, Develop.

Bill was the former Managing Director and Executive Chair of Northern Star having been with company for some 14 years overseeing a massive expansion from junior to a global scale Australian gold producer with world class projects in highly prospective regions of Australia and America.

This podcast has it all, the highs and the lows, over two full parts A & B - from Bill’s upbringing in country WA, to his days learning the art of underground mining, to joining Northern Star - the phenomenal growth path including the acquisitions, how the purchase of half of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit played out, the merger with Saracen Minerals - and what he is up to now, his views on Develop and his pathway forward.

Bill is a board trustee of prominent WA charity Telethon, a Patron of Western Australia School of Mines Curtin University Alumni, and was named 2016 CEO of the Year by the Australian Financial Review as well as First Amongst Equals at the 2013 Business News Forty under 40 Awards.

This is a cracker without a doubt, we hope you enjoy.

For more information visit the Euroz Hartleys website.

Episode 10: Peter Molloy, Founder & Executive Chairman of Firebrick Pharma

Welcome to our 10^th episode of “Finding the Front”!

In this episode we have a wonderful opportunity to meet and learn about one of Australia’s most experienced Pharmaceutical and Biotech CEOs and entrepreneurs, Mr Peter Molloy. Peter is the founder and executive chairman of Firebrick Pharma, stock code FRE, a company that has developed a breakthrough nasal spray medicine that targets the viral cause of the common cold.

Peter has an unbelievable background in this Pharmaceutical and Biotech sector and provides us a thought provoking understanding of what it has taken to become a leader in this field.

He is a qualified microbiologist and biochemist who built a who built a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, initially at Faulding (Aust) where as a microbiologist and marketer he was integral in the launch of the Betadine Sore Throat Gargle which been an incredible success, and then at Pharmacia, later to become Pfizer, where he was Managing Director of Australia/NZ operations and later International Vice President for Strategic Marketing.

During his career, Peter launched some 23 new pharmaceutical products and executed no less than 40 international licensing or distribution deals. Subsequently, he was CEO of four biotech companies in US and Australia, including two ASX-listed firms.

As CEO of antiviral drug development company, Biota Holdings Limited (2002-2005), the company’s market value grew from $30m to around $300m. Subsequently, as founding CEO of Race Oncology (2016-2020), the company's market value grew from $12m to more than $400m during 2021.

In this broad ranging conversation Peter also provides his seriously informed insights into the Australian Biotech sector and the industry as a whole.

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Episode 9: Chris Reed, Managing Director & CEO of Neometals

Welcome to Episode 9 of Finding the front. This episode we have a wonderful opportunity to chat with Mr Chris Reed who is the Managing Director and CEO of innovative minerals and advanced materials project development company Neometals.

Chris started in the mining industry in 1990 and co-founded Reed Resources with his father David in 2001. In this absorbing conversation we gain an understanding of Chris’s life growing up in the capital of the Western Australian goldfields, Kalgoorlie and how his career path and passion led to building a company in the mining sector, developing an understanding of the commodities that are very relevant to the 21^st century and ultimately, the formation of Neometals.

Neometals has transitioned from a mineral resource only exposure to becoming an integrated mineral and materials project developer. It has 3 core projects with large partners that support the global transition to clean energy and span the battery value chain including Lithium ion battery recycling, vanadium recovery and the Barrambie Titanium and Vanadium project which is one the world’s highest grade hard rock titanium vanadium deposits.

This really is a fascinating story with some super relevant insights, so please sit back and enjoy.

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Episode 8: Ken Brinsden, Managing Director & CEO of Pilbara Minerals

In Episode 8 of Finding the Front we are very privileged to have on the show the Managing Director and CEO of Pilbara Minerals, Mr Ken Brinsden. Ken joined Pilbara Minerals, stock code PLS, in 2016 as CEO when the company was a start-up lithium explorer.

Last week after some 7 years at the company, which is now grown to be a leading ASX 100 battery raw materials company, he made a difficult decision and announced his intention to step down from the Managing Director and CEO role by the end of 2022.

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We talk to Ken about how he earnt his stripes working for some mining’s household names over his stellar 25 plus year career before he joined Pilbara Minerals.  In this fantastic conversation, Ken delivers some fascinating insights into his upbringing, being an underground mining specialist, his time as an integral part of Atlas Iron and the opportunity to lead and build Pilbara Minerals into one of the world’s leading lithium raw materials suppliers with an exciting portfolio of growth options as the demand for battery raw materials increases.

This really is a great story with some special insights and reflections of Ken’s life.

Episode 7: Ian Wells, Chief Financial Officer of Fortescue Metals Group

Our very special guest on Episode 7 is Ian Wells, Chief Financial Officer of powerhouse company, Fortescue Metals Group. In this episode we look at the sensational journey of a guy that grew up in the country town of Quairading in Western Australia's wheatbelt. Ian thrived on being part of this tight knit community and learnt the importance of family, hard work, being true to himself and the rewards of being part of a team. After achieving a lengthy and very solid career foundation across different large business models, Ian joined Fortescue in 2010 as Group Manager Funding, Treasury and Business Planning and has grown with this business to be an integral part of the Executive Team and the phenomenal global force that it is today.

He delivers an amazing insight into his career and personal development pathway including:

• his upbringing
• career foundation
• joining Fortescue
• adapting to his role
• the importance of the team
• why Fortescue is different
• "getting the CFO role"
• the Fortescue values
• being yourself
• the incredible influence, vision and role model of Andrew Forrest 

This makes for compelling and motivating listening.

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Episode 6: Ben Macnamara, CEO of CBH Group

In Episode 6 of “Finding the Front” we have a very timely and fortunate opportunity to have a chat with, and hear about the seriously interesting journey of, recently appointed CEO of the CBH Group Ben Macnamara. Ben grew up as one of a farming family of six in the Western Australian country town of Williams about 160 kilometres from Perth. In this fantastic conversation we learn how Ben set himself a strategy of developing his career in his own way. This took him on a journey to work for some highly regarded organisations, live in big cities and overall generate everlasting experiences that have helped him build a significant skill set that lays the foundation for his current position of significant responsibility. Ben shares his thoughts into the importance of his close family and his country upbringing, sport and teamwork and his learnings along the way from his various roles to provide some outstanding insights. With the CBH Group, Australia’s largest co-operative, biggest grain exporter and one of the countries largest agribusinesses experiencing a record breaking result of receiving over 20 million tonnes of grain for this year’s harvest from across this great state of WA, this is an awesome opportunity to get to know and gain a great understanding of their new leader.

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Episode 5 Part B: Raleigh Finlayson, Managing Director (from March 2022) of Genesis Minerals

In this episode we have the enormous opportunity to take some time out to get to know highly regarded gold miner and all round good bloke Raleigh Finlayson.

For those listeners who aren’t familiar with Ral, Raleigh is a goldfields born and bred lad from outback station country near Menzies which is about 130km north of Kalgoorlie. He really has had a crack at life and his story is simply a ripper.  

A WA School of mines graduate, Raleigh has had a stellar career. He joined a small company called Saracen Mineral Holdings in December 2007 and by 2013 he was Managing Director, aged 34. At that stage in 2008 Saracen had a market cap of some $53m. From this point the company began to grow and grow…..and grow - culminating in 2019 under Raleigh’s guidance – of achieving the status of acquiring 50 % of the Kalgoorlie super pit for $1.1 billion dollars. The market cap of Saracen grew to a whopping $6.0bn in 2021 before merging in a mega $16 billion dollar transaction with Northern star who owned the other 50% of the super pit.

The merger between Northern Star, led by fellow WA School of Mines graduate Bill Beamont and Saracen Minerals, led by Raleigh, consolidated the Kalgoorlie-Boulders hugely famous golden mile under a single owner for the first time in its 128 year history.

When we caught up with Raleigh,  he was currently on a break and immersed in studying an Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in the US while in waiting for his recently announced new role as Managing Director for Genesis Minerals to commence in March 2022. He will also be re-joining the Northern Star board in a non executive director role in April 2022.

He talks candidly about his upbringing on the station, building Saracen, the hugely important role his family plays, backing yourself in, the challenges of the Super pit acquisition, working closely with and in Northern Star, his current studies that have taken him to Harvard in the US and his excitement about his new role with Genesis Minerals which takes him back to the goldfields area that dominated his family heritage and upbringing.

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Episode 5 Part A: Raleigh Finlayson, Managing Director (from March 2022) of Genesis Minerals

Here we are with the last Episode of Finding the Front for 2021 and what a cracker it is.

In this episode we have the enormous opportunity to take some time out to get to know highly regarded gold miner and all round good bloke Raleigh Finlayson.

For those listeners who aren’t familiar with Ral, Raleigh is a goldfields born and bred lad from outback station country near Menzies which is about 130km north of Kalgoorlie. He really has had a crack at life and his story is simply a ripper.  

A WA School of mines graduate, Raleigh has had a stellar career. He joined a small company called Saracen Mineral Holdings in December 2007 and by 2013 he was Managing Director, aged 34. At that stage in 2008 Saracen had a market cap of some $53m. From this point the company began to grow and grow…..and grow - culminating in 2019 under Raleigh’s guidance – of achieving the status of acquiring 50 % of the Kalgoorlie super pit for $1.1 billion dollars. The market cap of Saracen grew to a whopping $6.0bn in 2021 before merging in a mega $16 billion dollar transaction with Northern star who owned the other 50% of the super pit.

The merger between Northern Star, led by fellow WA School of Mines graduate Bill Beamont and Saracen Minerals, led by Raleigh, consolidated the Kalgoorlie-Boulders hugely famous golden mile under a single owner for the first time in its 128 year history.

When we caught up with Raleigh,  he was currently on a break and immersed in studying an Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in the US while in waiting for his recently announced new role as Managing Director for Genesis Minerals to commence in March 2022. He will also be re-joining the Northern Star board in a non executive director role in April 2022.

He talks candidly about his upbringing on the station, building Saracen, the hugely important role his family plays, backing yourself in, the challenges of the Super pit acquisition, working closely with and in Northern Star, his current studies that have taken him to Harvard in the US and his excitement about his new role with Genesis Minerals which takes him back to the goldfields area that dominated his family heritage and upbringing.

For more information visit the Euroz Hartleys website.

Episode 4 Part B: Tim Levy, Managing Director of Family Zone

Our Episode 4 of “Finding the Front” is an absolute ripper. In this two part podcast, our conversation is with successful telecommunications, technology entrepreneur and all round good guy, Tim Levy, the Managing Director of Family Zone. For Family Zone, a global business, it is all about protecting and supporting every child’s digital journey and Tim is as qualified and a passionate as anyone on the planet on this topic. Hearing Tim’s pathway in growing up in Perth, gaining extraordinary international skills and expertise living overseas, acquiring a deep understanding of the telecommunications world through his own entrepreneurial business endeavours, to idea incubation and the founding of Family Zone and his massive insights into the world of the internet and the challenges both parents and schools face everyday is captivating.

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