Mr Matos has over 25 years of experience in the mining sector in a number of operations, projects, business development, marketing and sales, strategy and planning roles in Australia, China, Singapore, Brazil and spent many years involved with developments in Mozambique. Having started with Stanmore Resources initially as a Non-Executive Director in late 2019, he took the helm as CEO in August 2020 and led the acquisition of the SMC assets and the transformation of Stanmore into a metallurgical coal producer. Prior to that and amongst other roles, Mr Matos worked for Vale for close to 20 years in senior roles, starting in iron ore and moving into coal as its Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer as well as their Managing Director in Australia. He is also a Board Director of the Queensland Resources Council. He is Member of the Health and Safety Committee Member of the Disclosure Committee.