BUNKER HILL MINING CORP. Bunker Hill Mining Corp. announce that Paul Smith has been appointed to its Board of Directors and as Chair of its new Growth Committee. Paul Smith is a corporate finance professional and senior board member with extensive experience of driving performance at natural resource focused companies.
Mr. Smith is a co-founder of Voltaire Minerals Partners, which provides innovative solutions to the critical minerals supply chain, and is also a Non-Executive Director at Seadrill a global offshore drilling business for the oil and gas industry, and at Echion Technologies. He was until recently Executive Chairman at Trident Royalties, a mining royalty business. Mr. Smith worked for Glencore plc from 2011 to 2020 where, as Head of Strategy, his principal areas of focus were capital markets, M&A, and capital allocation.
During this period, Glencore successfully completed numerous large scale corporate and capital markets transactions, most notably a $90 billion merger with Xstrata Plc. He was also the CFO of Katanga Mining Limited, Glencore's TSX-listed and DRC-based subsidiary from 2019 until its de- listing in 2020. He represented Glencore as a non-executive director of Lomnin plc and Glencore Agriculture Ltd, and chaired Glencore Technology from 2013-2015.
Prior to Glencore, Mr. Smith was an analyst and fund manager at Marshall Wace Asset Management, where he focused on cyclical sectors, including mining. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.
