Held several position in MGEI since 2008 including External and International Affairs Committee, Annual Convention's Chairperson, MGEI Secretary General in 2014-2018 and Chairman MGEI since 2018.
An economic geologist with more than 25 years of work experience mostly with several major companies such as Western Mining Company, Phelps Dodge Corp, Freeport McMoran and BHP Billiton. Previous positions held covering senior level at both technical to managerial function mostly in Exploration: Brownfields and Greenfields Exploration including target generation, due diligence-project evaluation, mine operation, new business and new mine development. Worked mostly in major copper and gold deposit systems such as IOCG (Candelaria, Santos and Punta del Cobre-Chile), Sediment Hosted Cu-Co in Central African Cu-Co Belt (Tenke Fungurume district-DRC Africa) and HSE-Porphyry (North Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan, Tampakan-Philippines, Southern and Northern Peru, Central Chile and Inner Mongolia-China) and recently LSE and ISE-porphyry.
Competent Person under JORC Code and KCMI Code; member of AusIMM, SEG (Member of Lindgren Award Committee), IAGI, Joint Committee (Kombers) of The KCMI and Chairman of MGEI since 2018