Alex is a Chartered Engineer with extensive international experience spanning Australia, Panama, the UK, Spain, and Qatar.
His career encompasses the entire engineering lifecycle, from study management to demolition, across infrastructure, defence, transport, and telecoms. He’s now focused on the mining sector.
Frustrated by systemic operational inefficiencies, Alex stepped away from traditional engineering project work to pursue his entrepreneurial side.
In his role as Managing Director at First Principles Consulting, he channels his diverse operational expertise and personal interest in investing into a unique solution: the Mining Value Index.
This unique tool is designed to unearth investment outperformance in mid-tier and aspiring miners by bridging the critical gap between operational realities and investment success.
The Mining Productivity Paradox: Why More Investment Isn't Delivering Better Outcomes
Beyond Due Diligence: Overcoming Executive Narratives and Siloed Thinking
From Missed Guidance To Outperformance: Understanding the Performance Quadrants
The Capability Curve: From Innocence to Excellence
The Mining Value Cycle: Identifying and Accelerating Returns for Institutional Investors
The Operational Performance Framework: A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Production Growth
From Strategy to Bank: The Disconnect Between Ambition and Reality
Addressing the challenges of technology adoption in mining, and highlighting the critical shift required.
Drawing upon the Operational Performance Framework, Performance Quadrants, and Capability Curve, this talk highlights common mistakes hindering progress and provides actionable insights to improve adoption and uptake.
How can Institutional Investors and capital allocators confidently answer the question, 'Are our expectations realistic?'.
Learn to cut through subjective narratives, uncover hidden production capacity, minimise investment risk, and empower confident decision-making. Ultimately, discover the holy grail of reliable, consistent, predictable, and sustainable production growth in mining.
