Team

Frederick is an international mining executive with 15 years of experience working with companies in the UK, Canada and Australia. He co-founded Elemental Royalties as a private company and has advanced it through Listing in 2020 and then a merger with Altus Strategies PLC in 2022. Prior to Elemental Altus, he was Managing Director of a UK-listed gold exploration company, Goldcrest Resources PLC and General Manager of an ASX-listed uranium exploration company, Resource Star Ltd. Frederick received the ‘Young Rising Star’ Award at Mines & Money 2018, holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Edinburgh and was on the founding committee of Young Mining Professionals in London.

David has over 13 years experience in the mining and mine finance industries. He started his career in Equity Research at BMO Capital Markets before joining Kulczyk Investments, a Polish family investment company. Whilst at KI, David was part of the establishment of QKR Corporation, a private mining investment company, and was seconded to the business development team which acquired the Navachab gold mine from Anglogold Ashanti. Prior to joining Elemental Altus, David was Vice President at Tamesis Partners LLP, specialising in corporate advisory and equity capital markets.

Alister is an investment professional with over a decade of experience working in private equity and capital markets in the natural resources industry. He has gained international exposure to the sector through his roles as an investment manager at The Sentient Group, a private equity fund focused on metals and mining, and as director of business development at KoBold Metals, a data science-led resource investment vehicle. Alister holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting) from Sydney University.

Bryan is a mining engineer with over 20 years’ experience. He has spent his career designing and evaluating mining projects and operations. Bryan started his career at mines in Canada then transitioned into consulting. He is now based in the United Kingdom. Bryan has been a consultant mining engineer with global engineering companies. Bryan was with SLR Consulting after AMC Consultants and Golder Associates (now WSP). He has consulted to mining and financial companies on their projects and operations. As Principal Mining Engineer, Bryan advised companies on engineering projects and due diligence. Bryan is a Professional Engineer in Canada and a Qualified/Competent Person. He graduated with a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario.

Richard is a financial geologist, and co-founder of Elemental Altus, with over 35 years of technical and commercial global resource industry experience. He spent 18 years with WMC Ltd in exploration, feasibility, mining, business development, communications and governance. Richard has since held a number of senior technical roles for a range of listed and unlisted companies; including CEO of ASX-listed minerals explorer, Resource Star Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Business from Curtin University of Technology.

Prior to joining Elemental Altus in 2020, Meghan worked as an investment banker with RBC Capital Markets’ Metals & Mining and Energy teams in London, where she was involved in a variety of transactions across commodity types and regions. Meghan has been involved in several large royalty and streaming transactions since joining the Business Development team, and helped oversee the Elemental-Altus merger in 2022. Meghan holds a MSc in Metals and Energy Finance, jointly awarded by Imperial College Business School and the Department of Earth Science and Engineering. She also holds a BSc in Geological Sciences from the University of Leeds.

David has extensive experience in corporate finance, capital markets, M&A and financial restructurings. Prior to joining Elemental Altus, David was General Counsel for EMEA / APAC at PJT Partners, and senior counsel at Deutsche Bank. Prior to investment banking, David worked at White & Case and Dentons, advising primarily financial institutions and natural resource companies on securities law matters.

Mr. Sartori is the Chairman and founder of Union Group International Holdings, a privately owned investment and private equity management firm with significant strategic Latin American interests. These cover the agricultural, energy, forestry, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Mr. Sartori established Union Group in 2007. Since its incorporation, Union Group and its subsidiaries have performed numerous transactions growing its portfolio of businesses of private and public companies. He has served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board for Union Acquisition Corp. II since December 2018 to 2021. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Union Acquisition Corp. from November 2017 until it completed its merger with Bioceres Crop Solutions in March 2019. Mr. Sartori is the co-owner of Sunderland A.F.C, Vice-President of AS Monaco Football Club, Board member of the European Club Association and of the Professional Football League (LFP) in France, and Executive Chairman of Adecoagro S.A. Mr. Sartori is a regular speaker about Latin American issues in worldwide conferences and media. Mr. Sartori began his career as a financial services entrepreneur in 2002 launching Union Capital Group, a Geneva based multi-strategy asset manager, selling its control in 2008. Mr. Sartori was elected and served as Senator of the Uruguayan Parliament for the legislative period going from February 15, 2020 to February 15, 2025. Mr. Sartori received a Bachelor Degree in Business and Economics from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Lausanne.

Prashant Francis has over 20 years of experience in the investment banking, M&A and business development space. Prashant is the co-founder and co-Chief Executive Officer of AlphaStream, a private mining investment company based in Abu Dhabi. In his role at AlphaStream, he has helped build a platform that invests across the capital structure in the mining space globally.  Prashant began his career at J.P. Morgan Chase focused on Mining M&A and then evolved into a more generalist M&A role and then a TMT focused role. In 2017, he co-founded Portman Partners, a merchant banking platform that is the co-owner of AlphaStream.

Sandeep Singh is the current CEO at TSX listed mining company Western Copper and Gold. Prior to this, he was President and CEO of Osisko Gold Royalties, where he successfully led a turnaround that resulted in significant relative outperformance. Over the preceding 15 years, Mr. Singh worked as an investment banker specializing in the North American metals and mining sector at BMO Capital Markets, Dundee Securities, and co-founded Maxit Capital, a leading independent M&A firm. He has advised numerous mining companies on financing alternatives and strategic matters, and has been involved in some of the most complex and value-enhancing M&A transactions in the sector. Mr. Singh holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Concordia University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Mr. Sood is the managing director of Signal 8 Limited based in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Sood has been a founder of and the principal investor in several businesses in emerging markets and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Golconda Gold Ltd. (TSXV) and Executive Chairman of Abraxas Power Corp. Mr. Sood was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Navina Asset Management Inc., a global asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Sood led the investment activities of Navina and its predecessor company, Lawrence Asset Management Inc., from its founding in 2001 until he sold the firm in 2010. Mr. Sood received a Bachelor Degree of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo where he was a Descartes Fellow and the recipient of numerous national awards.

Mr. Vumbaca is currently principal of London-based private investment office ASV Private Office where he works with businesses to set and to execute sophisticated value creation strategies. Over the past three decades, Mr. Vumbaca has led complex, high profile, and high value corporate and commercial negotiations, including most recently the sale of Pit Stop Betting in 2019. He operates in a peer group of investors including high-net worth individuals, overseas royal families, international conglomerates, private investors, financial institutions, elite athletes, artists, and sports club owners. Mr. Vumbaca currently serves as a non-executive director of Sunderland AFC, a professional English premier league football club, and is the Chair of AIG, an Agro conglomerate, amongst other appointments. Mr. Vumbaca holds a Masters (DEA) graduate degree from the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and is a licensed member of the Law Society of England and Wales and of the Colegio de la Abogacia Espanola.