Brian has over 30 years experience in the minerals processing sector, specialising in comminution. He has a Bachelor of Science from Murdoch University and is a Fellow of the AUSIMM. He is the Managing Director of Orway Mineral Consultants based in Australia and led the Company's expansion into North America, establishing an office in Toronto, Canada. Prior to his work as a consultant, Brian worked in the gold mining industry in Western Australia. In his current position, he provides specialist consulting services in flowsheet design, process engineering, gold technologies and plant optimisation, in addition to his management duties. Brian is also a founding director of OrwayIQ, delivering MillROC to clients around the globe and is a non-executive director of Lycopodium Minerals APAC.

Metallurgist with broad experience in mineral processing operations and technology roles across a range of unit operations, sites, and commodities. Eleven years with Metso, now leading the Global Optimised Mill Lining Product Management team. Delivering optimisation strategies and, technical support to Metso’s global mill lining business with a whole of plant process focused approach to mill lining design, component selection and digital technologies.

Alexandra McDonough is a Metallurgist at Newmont Cadia, overseeing the Concentrator 1 Comminution Circuit. Her work focuses on improving liner wear management, tackling design-driven failures that impact equipment reliability, and supporting operational efficiency through data-driven process control.

Currently a Senior Superintendent of Processing at Sepon LXML in Laos, Devy Dyson graduated from UBC Materials Engineering with a BASc (2015) and MASc (2017). During his studies, Devy worked with Dr. Edouard Asselin’s group on extractive metallurgy, a research area he further pursued in his Master’s degree, focusing on autoclave chemistry and kinetics modeling of the zinc pressure leaching process.

James Carpenter is a geoscientist with over 23 years of international mining experience across precious metals, base metals and bulk commodities in Australia, Asia, Africa and the southwest Pacific. While his core expertise lies in Mineral Resource estimation and geostatistics, much of his work sits at the interface between the orebody and the plant, translating geological understanding into improved processing outcomes. He has authored two publications of direct relevance to metallurgists and plant operators. The first, from the Ban Houayxai Gold Mine in Laos, combined Mineral Resource geology with metallurgical recovery for gold, linking the orebody to recovery performance. The second, from the Phu Kham Copper-Gold Operation, linked a blend of hard, heavy skarn rocks with softer material to significantly increase SAG mill throughput — a practical demonstration of how geometallurgical blending can lift plant performance.