OPEN MINERAL AT A GLANCE

Boris has more than 16 years experience in management, commercial and financial roles. Prior to founding Open Mineral AG, he was with Glencore for 8 years in various functions including CFO of Kazzinc, Asset Manager for their base and precious metal mines and smelters, in addition to working as a trader of zinc, lead, copper, gold and silver concentrates. Boris also has extensive experience in finance – particularly private equity and venture capital – having spent a number of years at Pacific Corporate Group. Boris obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Ilya has more than 12 years experience in metals & mining and commodities trading in addition to experience in finance. Prior to founding Open Mineral, Ilya was with Glencore as an Asset Manager in their base and precious metals and concentrates department working in Switzerland, USA and Kazakhstan. His experience also extends to executive positions in the mining service industry with AV Group in addition to working as an investment-banking associate with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Ilya holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MSc in Chemical Technology from Mendeleev University.

Diego is Head of Business Development in the America's at Open Mineral. Prior to that, he worked at Glencore for 5 years in Lima, Baar, and Stamford, having had assumed the roles of zinc/lead trader, traffic, and having been in charge of blending and logistics operations in Peru. He also has experience in management consulting, specifically in logistics and cost optimization. Diego obtained his B.A in International Relations at Lehigh University.

Roger brings over 30 years of experience in commodity trading with a deep knowledge of products such as steel, chrome ore, ferroalloys, zinc, and lead concentrates/metals. Prior to joining Open Mineral, Roger held several leadership positions at Glencore, Switzerland: Senior Traffic for lead and zinc concentrates and, subsequently, Traffic Manager and Regulation Specialist for IMO and REACH. In addition to that, Roger was responsible for the worldwide warehouse security and stock control for the zinc/copper department.

Edouard has more than 10 years of experience in physical commodity trading and finance. Before joining Open Mineral, Edouard was with Transamine, trading base metal concentrates; and prior to that, he worked as a senior associate for Morgan Stanley in Fixed Income. Edouard holds Masters in Metals and Energy Finance from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London

Wen joined Open Mineral with 30 years of experience in nonferrous metal trading specializing in copper, lead, zinc, and gold markets. Following many years as a trader at Mark Rich Co Ag, Wen brings in-depth concentrate market knowledge. She has extensive regional experience as a result of building and running her own trading business, Sunny Water. In addition, Wen has been in lead of a number of regional and global businesses including her position as the Head of Operations at Cliveden and MRI, Shanghai

Nikita is leading the product team and has two decades of IT/software and business expertise. As something of a serial entrepreneur, Nikita has founded himself and/or managed a number of start-ups over the years. He has worked for companies like Gemalto SA France, Sicap AG (Swisscom Group), Spitch AG, unadox, Yandex Europe and other assignments in Switzerland, France, Russian and Ukraine. Nikita has also worked on the development of a platform connected to the NASDAQ stock exchange (automated algorithmic trading). Nikita holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Ryan Cochrane has over twelve years of experience as a metals analyst and geologist having worked on gold and polymetallic projects in South Africa, Western China, Armenia and the Northern Andes.
Prior to joining Open Mineral, he led CRUs base metals supply and cost research, worked on copper mine costs and later led the gold mining research team at Wood Mackenzie. In earlier roles, he covered precious metals at Thomson Reuters GFMS. He has strong expertise of zinc, lead and copper markets along with precious metals. Ryan holds a PhD in geochemistry, geochronology and thermochronology from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

David has over 8 years of experience in commercial and management roles. His experience includes working at Glencore (Perú) in the role of zinc/lead trader, traffic manager, where he was also in charge of zinc blending and logistics operations. Prior to Glencore, he worked at Hochschild Mining in the department of commerce and finance. David is an experienced consultant, specializing in risk management and cost optimization. David obtained his MBA at I.E. Business School and his B.A in Business at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima.

Jonathan has 8 years of experience in physical commodity trading and financial markets. He most recently worked at Gerald Metals focusing on base and precious metals concentrates. Prior to that he was at Commonwealth Opportunity Capital, a global macro hedge fund. He received his B.S from Binghamton University.

Celeste has over 8 years of experience in the Customer Success area. She managed the implementation of several CRMs in big companies such as Ford Motor Company and Ernst & Young. Before joining Open Mineral, Celeste was with Exxon Mobil and took part of the leadership team implementing the worldwide migrations working from Houston and Buenos Aires.

Over 15 years of experience in strategic marketing, business development, product management, partner channel development, including 10+ years for Microsoft and 5+ years of working with technology startups, helping them to enter the global market (Russia+, NA, EU, LatAm, APAC, META and Japan).
Olga has an extensive experience managing projects across various, regionally distributed teams.
Working around cutting-edge technologies for a long time made her a strong advocate of the startup culture and entrepreneurship driven to launch and deliver new ambitious cross-border projects.
Prior to Open Mineral, she had been focused on driving the international strategy for portfolio companies and projects of Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), Russian venture capital fund and startup accelerator.