Gediktepe - ACG Metals Limited

Advisor

Warren Gilman was Chairman and CEO of private, global mining investment company CEF Holdings Ltd. which was 50% owned by the flagship public company of Mr Li Ka-Shing, CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd and 50% by Canadian bank CIBC.

Mr. Gilman is a mining engineer and co-founded CIBC’s Global Mining Group in 1988. During his 26 years at CIBC he ran the mining investment banking teams in Canada, Australia and Asia, serving as Managing Director and Head of the Asia Pacific region for 10 years and latterly as Vice Chairman for CIBC World Markets.

Mr. Gilman has acted as advisor to the largest mining companies in the world including BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Noranda, Falconbridge, Sumitomo Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, China Minmetals, Jinchuan and Zijin, and has been responsible for some of the largest equity capital markets financings in Canadian mining history.

Mr. Gilman is Founder, Chairman and CEO of TSX listed Queen’s Road Capital investment Ltd. He is also a Board member of NYSE/TSX-listed NexGen Energy Ltd, a uranium exploration and development company, and the Lead Director of NYSE-listed Gold Royalty Corp.

Mr. Gilman studied at Queen’s University and Western University in Canada.

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Artem Volynets is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACG Metals. Mr. Volynets has 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and senior corporate management roles. He has led private and public transactions worth more than $30 billion and managed leading businesses in the metals and mining industry.

Mr. Volynets established ACG in 2014, as an advisory and investment management firm, through which he worked on a number of cross border transactions in the mining and metals sector in Eurasian emerging markets. These transactions utilized his extensive experience of M&A-led sector consolidation, his local knowledge and networks, and his global industry and investor connections.

Between 2018 and 2021, Mr. Volynets led the transformation of London-listed Chaarat Gold, via an M&A driven strategy from a development business with no production or cash flows, into a fully-operational producer. At the end of his tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Chaarat had three assets in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, 63koz of gold equivalent production (in 2021), 9.5moz of resources, and had raised over $175 million in various forms of funding. Mr. Volynets stepped down on 5 August 2021 from his role as Chaarat CEO to focus on ACG.

As a key strategy and M&A executive in the Eurasian aluminium industry from 2003 to 2013, Mr. Volynets has led several high-profile transactions that consolidated this sector. These include: the three-way merger between Sual, Rusal and Glencore’s alumina assets to create UC Rusal ($8.5 billion); UC Rusal’s acquisition of a 25% strategic stake in Norilsk Nickel ($12.6 billion); and its $2.2 billion IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. As CEO of En+ (2010-2013), Mr. Volynets also spearheaded cooperation and joint ventures with China’s Norinco, Yangtze Power and Shenhua.

From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Volynets was a management consultant and corporate finance advisor with Monitor Group in Boston and London, working on more than 25 major international strategy and M&A projects for world-leading companies in mining and metals, banking and telecommunications.
Mr. Volynets was a board director of Chaarat Gold, En+, UC Rusal and Eurosibenergo, and served as an independent non-executive director at Norilsk Nickel and as Chairman of International Aluminium Institute.

He obtained an MBA from Georgetown University in 1997 (in a joint program with INSEAD in France) and a BA in Economics from The American University in Washington DC in 1994 and also studied at Moscow State University in Moscow. He emigrated from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991 and lives in London. He holds dual British and Russian nationality.

Advisor

Mr. Friedland is the founder and Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital. Over the past 30 years, Ivanhoe Capital has invested in a diverse portfolio of businesses, raising over $25 billion of capital invested across 30 countries. Ivanhoe Capital and Mr. Friedland’s investments have been primarily targeted in the mining and disruptive technology sectors. These investments have been in ventures that led to the discovery and development of some of the world’s most significant mineral deposits, development and applications of advanced technologies across various industries, and the advancement and commercialisation of, among others, grid scale vanadium battery technology.

Mr. Friedland is currently Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Ivanhoe Electric. Ivanhoe Mines operates the ultra-high-grade Kamoa-Kakula copper complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a greenfield discovery by Ivanhoe Mines which has been ranked as the world’s fourth-largest copper deposit by international mining consultant Wood Mackenzie, and where Ivanhoe Mines commenced commercial production in 2021. Ivanhoe Mines is also developing two other large-scale, joint venture mining projects in sub-Saharan: the Platreef Project in South Africa, a major greenfield discovery of platinum-group elements, nickel, copper and gold scheduled to commence production in 2025; and the historic Kipushi zinc-copper germanium-silver mine, also located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since the 1994 founding of Indochina Goldfields, the forerunner of the original Ivanhoe Mines (now known as Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.), Mr. Friedland has served in various senior leadership roles at Ivanhoe Mines during its original and current iterations. In 2000, the original Ivanhoe Mines acquired the exploration rights for the Oyu Tolgoi mineral prospect in southern Mongolia and Voisey’s Bay in Canada and subsequently discovered the series of world-scale copper-gold deposits. Mr. Friedland led the raising of more than $7 billion in equity and debt capital to fund Oyu Tolgoi’s initial development. Mr. Friedland led negotiations for the subsequent sale of the tier-one Voisey’s Bay discovery to INCO for C$4.3 billion in 1996. Now owned by Vale, the Voisey’s Bay Mine began production in 2005 and is the world’s fourth-largest nickel producer.

Mr. Friedland’s enterprise and leadership gained prominent, industry recognition in 2016 when he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. The citation acknowledged his company-building and exploration accomplishments, honouring him as “a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian and international mining industries” and “one of the most recognised mining personalities and achievers in the world.”

Mr. Friedland graduated from Reed College, in Oregon, USA, in 1974 with an undergraduate degree in political science.

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