Vital Metals Limited has appointed Geordie Mark as its Managing Director. Seasoned mining sector professional Dr. Geordie Mark joins as Vital MD and CEO, bringing more than 25 years of diversified global experience across the resources sector. Dr. Mark is an industry-leading resources analyst, based in Canada, with experience across commodities and at asset scale.

15+ years of coverage of natural resource-related equities on both the buy and sell side, with a history of Canadian exploration and management experience in an earlier role as Vice President Exploration, as well as other consultancy-related positions Dr. Mark was previously a lecturer in Economic Geology at Monash University, Melbourne, and completed a PhD at the National Key Centre in Economic Geology at James Cook University. Most recently, Dr. Mark was the Head of Mining for Haywood Securities Inc., where he held different roles and sub-sector coverages from 2008. These responsibilities developed significant experience in assessing natural resource-related equities including exploration and project development-related risk, corporate strategy effectiveness, commodity sentiment and financial forecasts and estimates delivery.

He also held an analyst position at Passport Capital that encompassed a spectrum of coverage from explorers to large cap. producers across a diverse range of commodities. Prior to moving to Canada, Dr. Mark was a lecturer in Economic Geology and Logan Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne.

He has a BSc Honors degree and PhD in Science from James Cook University.