Darryn leads a business unit in one of the world’s largest professional services companies tasked with engineering and building the required critical minerals infrastructure ranging from mining to battery active materials manufacture and recycling.

Darryn is a mining engineer with a Bachelor of Engineering from the West Australian School of Mines as well as other business and professional qualifications. He has over 40 years of government, business, technical and engineering experience working on mining operations, projects and strategy on across the world.

For the past decade he has focused on highlighting mining’s pivotal role in delivering the global energy transition on schedule with minimal harm to peoples and the environment. This has involved having an active role leading the development of countries’ critical minerals strategies and free trade agreements to the development of satellite monitoring technology capable identifying and measuring tailings dam movement.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and an MBA, with extensive executive and director-level experience across the mining and energy sectors. His career spans commodities including zinc, lead, iron ore, copper, bauxite, gold, silver, mineral sands, and coal. He specialises in strategic and business planning, delivering safe, low-cost, and operationally optimal solutions that maximise asset and process value. With direct involvement in three world-class greenfield start-ups, complemented by consulting expertise, Chris brings proven ability to translate strategy into viable, achievable project solutions.