John Byrne

Mr Byrne has 40 year of experience in the natural resource industry as a financial analyst, investor and mine developer. John formed and mentored Cambrian Mining Plc in 2002, which started with net assets of GBP 1.4 million and before being acquired in 2008 had net assets of GBP 149 million. John has been Chairman and CEO of numerous successful resource companies, including Western Coal Corp which was capitalised at less than C$1 million when he joined, and was sold for C$3.3billion in 2010.