Sirius Minerals Plc announced the appointment of Thomas Staley to the Board as Finance Director. Thomas Jay Staley has been with the company since October 2014, initially as Corporate Development Director and since 10 December 2014 as the Company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Thomas is responsible for leading the company's finance team, including in relation to the stage 1 financing, the results of which were announced on 3 November 2016. Thomas has over ten years of experience developing and financing energy, resource and infrastructure projects across a range of international markets. His core competency is structuring commercial arrangements and financing projects utilizing a wide range of capital including project and export credit backed debt, mezzanine debt and equity. During his career prior to joining the company Thomas has worked for Origin Energy and Babcock & Brown in Australia and Mubadala Development Company in Abu Dhabi. In addition to his broad financing experience, he was previously responsible for the financial and governance oversight of Origin Energy's portfolio of International Development projects.