Thomas P. Bispham, Chairman of Lighthouse Asia, joins the line up of judges for the Mines and Money Asia Pitch Battles. Download the program now.

Adam Matthews, Director of Ethics and Engagement of Church of England Pension Fund, will join a Keynote Panel Debate: Is the mining industry doing enough to implement ESG at the ground level? within the Risk and Reputation – How can the mining industry win over ESG and generalist investors session at Mines and Money Asia 2020. Download the program.

Bert Koth is a Managing Director, responsible for origination, analysis, structuring and execution of mining investments for Denham Capital. He joined Denham Capital in 2008. Prior to joining Denham, Bert worked at BHP Billiton in business development, and at ING Barings, and Deutsche Bank in their metals and mining corporate finance teams.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of African focused mineral platform Pangea, Auctus Minerals and Pembroke Resources. He has been working in the metals and mining industry for 18 years and lived, travelled and worked in a wide range of countries, including South Africa, Guinea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Brazil and many others. Bert received a graduate degree and a PhD in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics, Austria. He speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Russian.

Bert Koth, Managing Director and Partner Denham Mining Fund at Denham Capital, will join a Keynote Panel Debate: Have recent mining M&A deals delivered value to stakeholders? within the Mine Financing and M&A session at Mines and Money Asia 2020. Download the program.

Artem Volynets is the CEO of Chaarat Gold, the fast growing gold company with assets in the Kyrgyz Republic and Armenia and a strategy to build a leading producer in the FSU region via organic growth and M&A. He is also an independent director of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and one of the largest producers of nickel, platinum and copper.

Mr Volynets has more than 20 years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and senior corporate management roles. He led private and public transactions worth more than US$30bn and managed leading businesses in the metals and mining industry.

From 2003 to 2013 Artem was a key executive in the Russian aluminium and energy sectors, including CEO of En+ Group, Deputy CEO and Director for Corporate Strategy at UC RUSAL, and SVP Strategy at SUAL International. In 2009 and 2010 he also served as Chairman of the International Aluminium Institute. From 1997 to 2003, Artem was a management consultant and corporate finance advisor with Monitor Group in London. Mr Volynets founded ACG Amur Capital Group Ltd which is an advisory and investment management firm for CIS countries in 2014.

Artem studied at Moscow State University, The American University in Washington DC, Georgetown University and INSEAD.

Artem Volynets, Chief Executive Officer of Chaarat Gold will be taking part in a panel discussion on Mining in Asia and Mines and Money Asia 2019. Download the programme now.