Director
Ash is a seasoned mining professional and strategic business leader with 35+ years of global experience.
Ashutosh Srivastava offers prospective buyers and sellers a unique combination of on-the-ground operational expertise, high-level strategic financial evaluation (including M&A), and proven success in optimising contracts and realising bottom-line value, making him an ideal partner for structuring and executing complex resource transactions.
Ash is a seasoned mining professional and strategic business leader with 35+ years of global experience across India, Australia, and Indonesia, and possesses the technical depth and commercial acumen to drive successful deals across the mines, minerals, and metals sector. His expertise spans turning struggling projects into sustainable, profitable, long-term ventures and successfully converting early-stage studies into operational, profitable mines.
Ash brings significant experience in the commercial and strategic aspects essential for high-value transactions. He is experienced in identifying, studying, selecting, and preparing overall (economic & social) valuations of Exploration & Mining Properties for investment, mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He has extensive experience in conducting and leading Due Diligence, Technical & Costing Studies, and advising property owners on value-addition improvements.
He is highly skilled at presenting the technical aspects of mining & exploration projects and studies to potential investors, effectively demonstrating the value of each project. Ash holds a Bachelor of Law degree, enhancing his strategic approach to business.
Ash’s broad operational and consulting experience ensures a full understanding of the mining and metals business cycle, from greenfield projects to closure.
Adviser
Wilson is an accomplished and professional economic geologist with extensive Australian and International experiences over 50 years.
Wilson is an accomplished and professional economic geologist with extensive Australian and International experiences over 50 years. His expertise in the field of economic geology both in exploration, mining operation and project management. His international field experience extends to various levels and commodities, which include gold, silver, base metals (copper, lead, and zinc) and critical minerals such as tungsten; tin, molybdenum, cobalt, uranium, nickel, iron ore, mineral sand, industrial minerals and rare earth.
During his career, he has explored, evaluated, generated, managed and developed mineral deposits and projects around the world on 7 continents which includes North America (Canada, USA), West and North Africa, Southeast Asia (Philippine and Indonesia), China, South America (Brazil), the South Pacific (Fiji), Europe ( German and Spain), Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iraq) and the Island of Cyprus and Australia.
His extensive global field experience covers the wide spectrum ranging from ground identification for grassroot exploration, prospect evaluation, project generation and management including drill targeting, ore modeling, resource estimation, scoping and pre-feasibility studies through to mine development. He was instrumental in discovering of a major Tungsten deposit in Yukon Territories, Canada and 100 million tons of iron ore in Northern Territories (NT), Australia.
He is fellow member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and member of Australian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG).
Strategic Acquirer and Deal Architect
Pankaj is a highly diversified professional with 33 years of rich experience in industrial verticals
Pankaj Saraogi is a Strategic Acquirer and Deal Architect for Mines, Minerals & Metal. Pankaj is a highly diversified professional with 33 years of rich experience in industrial verticals, combining expertise in engineering, finance, and law to excel in strategic deal making and asset acquisition. His unique educational background includes an Engineering degree (BITS) with advanced legal qualifications (LLB, LLM), providing a foundational strength for structuring complex contracts and managing legal risks inherent in large-scale transactions.
His core capability is risk management and developing feasible resolution and monetization plans for high value assets. Pankaj is also a pioneer in the Stressed Asset Resolution Ecosystem, with his consortium having successfully acquired 17 companies across various business verticals.
Pankaj possesses a strategic acumen to identify and pursue emerging business trends and sunrise industries. This predictive capability enables him to accurately spot future business cycles and devise creative turnaround strategies and solutions. Pankaj’s current focus strongly aligns with the needs of a global commodities deal platform. He believes that due to aggressive economic growth and aspirational lifestyles in India, there will be a future shortage of natural resources like minerals, metals, and commodities. To address this demand, he is actively working toward establishing an international eco-system to enable Indian Corporates and Industry to acquire assets and commodities from overseas. His associated firm, OMD Consultants LLP, is engaged in Overseas Business Merger & Acquisitions. In essence, Pankaj Saraogi is a rare combination of a technically grounded engineer and a legally skilled lawyer who specializes in identifying strategic value, mitigating risk, and executing complex cross-border acquisition deals for hard assets and commodities. He views the aggressive acquisition of assets and commodities from overseas as necessary to meet the growing demand of Indian corporates.
Business Associate
Geologist with 15 years of international experience in Mineral Exploration/Mining and GIS.
Geologist with 15 years of international experience in Mineral Exploration/Mining and GIS. Prior moving to Australia, he worked in the Middle East providing technical support in creating, updating and maintaining GIS data. Currently working in the Australian Mineral Exploration and Mining Industry as a Project / Resource Geologist in creating, updating and maintaining Mineral Resource Models for Gold/Base metals/Iron ore projects. He serves as our primary contact for Mineral Exploration, Resource Evaluation and Modelling related questions.
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