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Recap of Day 1
Lucy Greenleaf, MC, Ignite Partners
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Copper Panel: Tariffs, Deficits, and the Race for Supply
Copper faces a structural supply deficit amid surging demand from electrification and AI infrastructure. Experts will analyse the supply-demand dynamics and examine whether current price projections fully reflect the looming shortfall, how tariffs and trade policies could exacerbate volatility, and where the most compelling opportunities lie in the junior space.
Moderator
Damian is a senior mining investment and financing executive with over 25 years of experience in mining mergers, acquisitions, divestments and financing. He is a Partner at Oryx Global Partners.
Until recently Damian was an Investment Director at EMR Capital. He was closely involved with EMR’s significant investments, including the Kestrel coking coal mine in Australia and the Martabe gold mine in Indonesia.
He is currently an adviser to several Boards and Vice Chairman of the Asia Mining Club.
Prior to joining EMR Capital, Damian co-led Australian mining coverage for Deutsche Bank where he led numerous cross-border M&A and financing transactions for companies including Fortescue, Glencore, Baosteel, EMR Capital, St Barbara, Kidman Resources (acquired by Wesfarmers) and Galaxy Resources (which became Arcadium and was recently acquired by Rio Tinto).
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Damian worked for BNP Paribas in a similar capacity and commenced his career with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in the UK.
Damian has extensive strategic advisory and end-to-end M&A experience. His financing experience includes work across the capital structure and in multiple markets. He has experience with many commodities including coal, iron ore, gold, base metals, uranium and battery materials.
Damian graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Birmingham, UK and is a Chartered Accountant.
Speakers
Warren was appointed Chairman and CEO of Queen’s Road Capital Investment Ltd. in 2019. Prior to that he was Chairman and CEO of CEF Holdings Limited and was Vice Chairman of CIBC World Markets. Warren was also Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Region for CIBC for 10 years where he was responsible for all of CIBC’s activities across Asia. Warren is a mining engineer who co-founded CIBC’s Global Mining Group in 1988. During his 26 years with CIBC, he ran the mining team in Canada, Australia and Asia and worked in the Toronto, Sydney, Perth, Shanghai and Hong Kong offices of CIBC. He has acted as advisor to the largest mining companies in the world including BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Noranda, Falconbridge, Sumitomo Corp., China Minmetals, Jinchuan and Zijin and has been responsible for some of the largest equity capital markets financings in Canadian mining history.
Warren serves on the Board of Gold Royalty Corp in his capacity as Chairman and CEO of Queens Road Capital Investment Ltd.
He is Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Western University and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Laurentian University.
Warren obtained his B.Sc. in Mining Engineering at Queen’s University and his MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.
Warren is a resident of Hong Kong, China.
Artem is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ACG Metals Ltd. He has 27+ years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and senior corporate management roles. He has led private and public transactions worth more than $30 billion and managed leading businesses in the metals and mining industry.
Artem launched ACG Acquisition Company as a SPAC on the London Stock Exchange in 2022 with a strategy to consolidate the critical metals industry. The company completed the first transaction in Türkiye in 2024, acquiring producing Copper / Gold Gediktepe mine and was renamed ACG Metals Ltd. ACG’s near term goal is to build 200-300 ktpa copper producer via a series of roll-up transactions.
Artem has previously designed and implemented a similar roll-up strategy in aluminium, having led several high-profile transactions that created UC Rusal, which he listed in Hong Kong in 2010 at a pre-money valuation of over $20 billion.
Artem’s former roles include the CEO of Chaarat Gold, CEO of En+ Group, head of strategy and Board director of UC Rusal. He also served as an independent non-executive director at Norilsk Nickel and as Chairman of International Aluminium Institute and started his carrier as a strategy consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and London.
He obtained an MBA from Georgetown University in 1997 (in a joint program with INSEAD in France) and a BA in Economics from The American University in Washington DC in 1994 and previously studied geology and philosophy at Moscow State University.
Stephen is an experienced mining executive and investment banker with 25 years of dedicated focus in the natural resources sector, having executed over $1 billion in transactions. A proven founder and executive, Stephen has repeatedly leveraged his deep financial and operational expertise to finance and build successful mining companies from conception through execution and exit.
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Tech Panel: Scaling Smarter, Not Just Bigger
Small-cap tech companies can offer outsized returns, but what really makes them investable in 2025? This panel will weigh the merits of dominating a niche versus expanding into broader markets, assess how smaller players can compete against global giants, and unpack the balance between growth spending and the market’s demand for cash flow. Speakers will highlight the risks to watch and the signals that help investors spot durable innovators over short-lived hype.
Moderator
Prior to InvestorHub, Ben spent 5 years in the market working on more than 2,000 ASX placements, and before that worked for a family office across 3 businesses in C-level capacities helping them grow and exit.
Calling Melbourne, Victoria home Ben spends weekends with his wife, three young girls and, when time permits, the occasional game of golf.
Speakers
Shaun is a capital markets professional with a decade of experience building an extensive network across Australia, the United States, the Caribbean, and Hong Kong. Shaun has developed a broad skillset to help companies achieve their growth objectives.
Shaun’s international career has provided deep expertise in alternative funding methods for public companies. He is personally driven to introduce these fairer, more transparent funding models to Australia to better serve retail investors.
Mark is a technology entrepreneur and semiconductor executive specializing in semiconductor operations. He is leading the commercialization of EMASS, a next-generation AI SoC that delivers industry-leading energy efficiency, memory integration, and on-device intelligence for edge applications. With a track record of building strategic partnerships across foundries, OEMs, and system integrators, Mark is focusing on translating this breakthrough semiconductor design into scalable products that solve real-world challenges in IoT, wearables, smart security, and autonomous systems. His leadership emphasizes vision, technical rigor, and go-to-market execution, positioning EMASS as a category-defining solution in the competitive edge AI market.
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