Robert Adamson

Mr Adamson is an experienced Chair and Director with 30 years of experience as a corporate adviser and investor in the resources and related industries sectors. He has leveraged his industry knowledge and commercial acumen, combining it with the technology developed by the CSIRO to co found Chrysos Corporation. Mr Adamson is Executive Chair of RFC Ambrian Group Limited, RFC Ambrian Limited, and RFC Ambrian Funds Management Pty Ltd. He also serves as Chair of MagnaTerra Technologies Limited, an entity formed through the merger of NextOre Limited and MRead Limited - both spinouts from CSIRO, co founded by RFC Ambrian. MagnaTerra is focused on commercialising Magnetic Resonance sensing technology for the detection of explosives, narcotics, and minerals. Its subsidiary, MRead, is dedicated to humanitarian demining operations, while the NextOre division is in mineral detection for bulk ore sorting, and for providing critical data for decision making and automation systems. Mr Adamson is also Chair of two other CSIRO spinout companies co founded by RFC Ambrian: Hadean Energy Limited, which is commercialising tubular solid oxide electrolysis technology for the production of hydrogen and syngas; FPR Energy Limited, a company developing grid scale, particle based next generation concentrated solar thermal energy systems.