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Mining operations leadership, Perth WA

Every challenge hides an opportunity.

Senior mining leaders who bring operations experience paired with performance data you can trust to lift results.

Are you data-rich, insight-poor?

Most operations do not need more reports. They need the confidence to see what matters, decide where to act, and embed the discipline to stay on course.

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Our achievements at a glance

Tens of millionsCost reduction and revenue gains
40+ yearsCombined operations experience, multi-commodity and international
Executive managersBoard, CEO and general management
Lean management efficiencyDeveloped and embedded systems

Experience and data.

Judgement to find the real problem beneath the noise.

Not one without the other.

Trusted, real-time performance data where the decisions are made.

Technology partner5accel SWITCH Mining

Every mining operation carries challenges that look like walls and turn out to be doors, if you can see them clearly and act with confidence. That takes two things most businesses only have one of: the hard-won judgement to find the real problem beneath the noise, and data you can actually trust to point the way. Experience without data is instinct that can’t be proven or repeated. Data without experience is a dashboard nobody knows how to act on.

We bring both. Our principals have run mining operations, not just advised on them, so we go after the root cause, not the symptom. And through our partnership with 5accel’s SWITCH Mining, we put trusted, real-time performance data where the decisions are made, so your team acts on the numbers instead of arguing about them. The system is the simpler part. We work with your leadership team on the routines and culture that turn trusted data into better decisions. That’s how a challenge becomes an opportunity, and why the companies that make it a habit, rather than a one-off, are the ones whose gains stick.

Principals

Our people have led operations management teams.

Alan Breen

Alan Breen

PrincipalStrategic operations leadership

Kgomotso Kereng

Kgomotso Kereng

PrincipalValue delivery

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Teams are at the heart of your business

Our experience

Where we’ve done the work.

Board, executive, operations and finance

  • Xstrata
  • Rio Tinto
  • Ok Tedi Mining
  • Harmony Gold
  • Debswana
  • Iluka

International, multi-commodity

  • Gold
  • Diamonds
  • Base metals
  • Mineral sands
  • Aluminium
  • Coal

Primary disciplines

  • Processing
  • Smelting & refining
  • Downstream logistics
  • Project design and construction
  • FS & PFS studies
  • Finance & accounting

We continually deliver

In their words.

“Alan proved a very capable executive and delivered significant, sustainable benefits for Debswana in safety performance, cost savings, employee morale and community relations.”
Balisi BonyongoFormer Managing Director, Debswana
“We highly commend Alan and his company for an excellent business outcome.”
Bonny NinaiChairman, Kumul Minerals Holdings / Ok Tedi
“The result of Kgomotso’s efforts translated to lower costs and much improved margins.”
Lynette ArmstrongInterim Managing Director, Debswana

Our core services

What we do.

Strategic management

  • Review
  • Refresh
  • Task & assign
  • Lock down

Operations & business reviews

  • Operations planning
  • Productivity
  • Costs
  • Capital utilisation
  • Risk assessment
  • Governance

Leadership development

  • Capability assessment
  • Development planning
  • Training
  • Coach
  • Mentor

Executive management

  • Non-executive director
  • Executive advisory
  • Project advisory
  • Interim & succession

Let us help make your team’s next shift count.

Bring the operational question. We’ll bring a direct, confidential point of view.

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