Matthew Gill

FAusIMM

Crisis Leadership Advisor, Left of Boom

Matthew Gill is a mining engineer with over 40 years' experience. He has a strong technical, operational and executive management background, having worked as an underground miner, mine planning engineer, supervisor, department head, general manager, COO, CEO and managing director, in Australia, Papua New Guinea, India, Ghana, Bolivia and the USA.

He holds four First Class Metalliferous Mine Manager’s Certificates of Competency and has been instrumental in the successful development of five mines (Porgera, Beaconsfield, Ballarat, Morning Star and Endeavor). He is a three-time winner of the Australian Mine Manager of the Year Award and received the AusIMM Leadership Award in 2008.

Matt was most recently then GM leading the re-opening of the Endeavor mine in NSW. Prior to that, he was the MD&CEO for White Rock Minerals and Castlemaine Goldfields, and has been the Group COO for Singapore-listed LionGold Corp, and has worked for Renison Goldfields, Placer Pacific, WMC and Rio Tinto.

Matt runs his own mining advisory consultancy, is a Crisis Leadership Advisor with Left of Boom, and a Project Director with Mining One. Matt sits on the Board of Akora Resources as a non-executive director, focused on advancing that company’s high-grade iron ore projects in Madagascar.

Keynote presentation

Beaconsfield - 20 years on. And still, never think it won't happen to you.