Chrysos puts science in technology to make technology that matters

Mr Adamson is an experienced Chair and Director with an extensive 30 years of experience as a corporate adviser and investor in the resources and related industries sectors. He has leveraged his deep industry knowledge and commercial acumen, combining it with the outstanding technology developed by the CSIRO to co‑found Chrysos Corporation.

Mr Adamson is Executive Chair of RFC Ambrian Group Limited, RFC Ambrian Limited, and RFC Ambrian Funds Management Pty Ltd. He is also the Chair of NextOre Limited. NextOre is a company owned by RFC Ambrian Group Limited, CSIRO and Advisian, and was formed to advance magnetic resonance ore sorting.

Mr Adamson is also Chair of MRead Limited, a drug and explosives detection ESI company with an initial focus on humanitarian de‑mining operations, and Hadean Energy Limited, another ESI company currently commercialising tubular solid oxide electrolysis for the production of hydrogen and syngas. He is also the designated Chair of FPR Energy Limited, an ESI company formed to commercialise grid-scale particle-based next-generation CST energy systems.

Mr Ford has extensive experience in the global mining industry in executive management and directorship roles. He recently served as a Non‑Executive Director with Compass Minerals International (NYSE:CMP), where he was Chairman of their EHSS committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Previous roles have included Chairman and CEO of Peabody Energy’s Australian business unit, CEO of Anglo Coal Australia and Executive Director (Operations) with Anglo Platinum and numerous roles across local and international industry associations, including the Minerals Council of Australia. Mr Ford’s prior experience includes numerous executive roles within globally recognised mining companies during a career that spans almost 50 years in the industry, including previous participation in the Coal Industry Advisory Board to the International Energy Agency.

Mr Ford has led, built, and turned around complex businesses encompassing large workforces in diverse geographies, cultures, currencies, and languages. This has included all lifecycle phases from feasibility through to closure and final rehabilitation in highly regulated and unionised environments across four continents.

Ms Gleeson is an experienced Chair and Non‑Executive Director in the mining industry following a 25‑year career as a senior executive and as a lawyer in both the UK and Australia. She has significant experience in international governance, strategic mergers and acquisitions, complex corporate finance transactions, as well as risk and crisis management.

In her executive career, Ms Gleeson was a member of the Group Executive at Incitec Pivot Limited for 10 years until 2013, including as Company Secretary and General Counsel, with oversight over the Group’s international operations in mining, explosives, chemicals, transport and logistics. Ms Gleeson led Incitec Pivot’s Corporate Affairs function across government, media and regulatory affairs as well as leading international crises responses and major environmental remediation projects, and the Group’s Culture & Values and Diversity programs.

Earlier in her career, Ms Gleeson practised as a corporate lawyer, with Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) in Melbourne after a 10-year legal career in the UK, including as a corporate finance and transactional partner in an English law firm, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.

Mr Holt is a senior executive with an international career spanning over 40 years across the logistics, industrial services, mining contracting and engineering industries. He is also an experienced company Director (GAICD) and Board member, having previously held Board positions with Brambles companies in the United Kingdom, and Swire companies in Australia and the United States. Mr Holt’s strong track record includes driving and finalising successful global expansion and business optimisation projects.

Mr Holt is currently the CEO of Swire Water Holdings, which is a member of the Swire Group of Companies, a business with which Mr Holt has held Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer positions since 2010. Prior to Swire, Mr Holt worked within Brambles in senior executive positions across several of its subsidiaries and helped lead the transition of Brambles into BIS as part of the KKR acquisition.

Mr Treasure has been an active member of the mining industry since 2006. He is a metallurgist with both technical and corporate experience, and a background in mining related research and development. Mr Treasure spent seven years in novel metallurgical process design, employed by service providers and mining companies directly. He has designed, built, and managed pilot plants across various deployment scales for hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and electrolytic technologies.

During his time as Operations Manager of ABR Process Development, he oversaw development of technology from conceptual design to commercial application. His technical experience includes working as the high-pressure acid leach Metallurgist for First Quantum’s Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations, project technologist for Metals Finance Australia and Operations Manager for ABR Process Development. He is also a member of AusIMM and AICD.

As Chrysos’ Founding CEO, Mr Treasure has led the Company since operations began in 2017 and, while working within RFC Ambrian, he oversaw Chrysos’ seed capital raising, Company formation and managed the acquisition of the underlying PhotonAssay™ technology from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.

Dr James Tickner is the lead inventor of the PhotonAssay technology and a co-founder of Chrysos. He holds a BA in Physics and a D. Phil in Particle Physics, both from Oxford University, UK. He completed his studies in 1997 and moved to Australia the following year. He spent 18 years with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). As team leader, he supervised the research efforts of scientists, students and engineers developing novel X-ray and nuclear technologies to solve challenging measurement and imaging problems for the minerals and security industries.

Dr Tickner has a wide range of nuclear expertise, including advanced radiation transport theory, computer modelling, a strong experimental background, and familiarity with custom-designed readout electronics, digital data processing and software design. He played a key role in building links with industry, and successfully oversaw the development, installation, and operation of numerous technologies for industrial clients. Key achievements include the development and commercialisation of the CSIRO Air Cargo Scanner, the invention and implementation of new X-ray fluorescence and diffraction systems for trace element and mineral analysis, and development of the Chrysos PhotonAssay® technology.

Dr Tickner is a keen advocate for bringing together researchers from different disciplines, countries and particularly from industry and academia, and to this end helped found the Global Young Academy, the Australian Early-Mid Career Researchers Forum and the Australian Science and Innovation Forum. He continues to recruit and supervise the next generation of research students and postdoctoral fellows. He has received numerous awards for his work including two CSIRO medals, the Australian Academy of Science Frederick White prize, the Eureka Prize for Science in Support of Defence or National Security and an ADC Leadership Award.

Mr Coventry is an accomplished CFO, company secretary and director, with over 25 years’ experience in senior finance, banking and operational roles across private and publicly owned businesses. He has led cross‑functional teams throughout Asia‑Pacific, North America and Europe in listed, unlisted and private SaaS, technology, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and financial services companies. He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Prior to joining Chrysos in early 2020, Mr Coventry was involved in steering entrepreneurial technology companies through successful international expansion and market growth campaigns. This includes roles as Chief Financial Officer at Catapult Group International Limited (ASX:CAT) and Money3 Limited (ASX:MNY (now Solvar Ltd (ASX:SVR)), which also included the management of the Initial Public Offering of Catapult Group International Limited.

Dr Alvin Chowles has been involved in new product development and technology commercialisation for over 20 years. Starting his career in academia, Dr Chowles moved into commercial research and then into new product development, building significant experience across the full product development cycle. He joined Chrysos Corporation in January 2017 as Program Manager and then later moved into the role of Operations Manager.

Prior to joining Chrysos, Dr Chowles was the Global R&D and Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific in the Process Analytics division. During his time at Thermo Fisher Scientific he led the development of multiple products utilising X-ray fluorescence, PGNAA, gamma attenuation and other technologies. He was also involved and managed the acquisition of technologies from CSIRO.

Dr Chowles holds a PhD in Physics and has completed further studies in numerous areas including leadership, team development and process improvement.

Mrs Kim Boland is an accomplished CPO with over 10 years’ experience in various People and Culture roles across manufacturing, logistics, commercial operations and high-growth technology organisations.

She has led Human Resource units globally, supporting the launch of new business entities and embedding best practice people and culture activities throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.
Mrs Boland holds an undergraduate Degree in Psychology and a Master of Business Administration. Further studies include the Emerging Chief People Officer program at UC Berkeley Extension.

Prior to joining Chrysos in early 2022, Mrs Boland held several executive level Human Resource roles, most recently the Executive Manager position at Quantium, a high-growth data science and AI organisation headquartered in Sydney. In addition to her professional appointments, Mrs Boland also has significant experience operating in non-for-profit board roles.