Minerals sands merchandise producer Kenmare Sources, which owns and operates the Moma mine, in Mozambique, has appointed James McCullough CFO, with impact from Could 1, 2025.
His appointment follows a radical search course of led by the Kenmare nomination committee, together with an unbiased govt search agency.
Kenmare says McCulloughbrings in depth mining, strategic and monetary expertise to Kenmare, having labored at diversified miner Rio Tinto for 14 years, most not too long ago as GM Group Technique. He has held a variety of roles in Rio’s group finance group, together with in enterprise analysis, shared providers and as enterprise govt to the Rio Group CFO. He has additionally led and supported key finance and strategic initiatives throughout a number of of Rio’s companies and capabilities.
By means of his varied roles, he has gained deep perception into all points of the worldwide mining business, together with titanium minerals operations and markets.
Previous to becoming a member of Rio, he was a pure sources fairness analyst with Davy Group, the place he lined a variety of pure sources corporations, together with Kenmare.
McCullough has a PhD in Engineering from College School Dublin and an Government MBA from Bayes Enterprise Faculty. He’s additionally a Chartered Administration Accountant.
He’ll succeed Tom Hickey who was appointed MD in August 2024.
“I’m delighted to welcome James to Kenmare’s administration group. James has an excellent mixture of technical, monetary and strategic expertise, which I imagine might be of immense worth to Kenmare over the approaching years. He has additionally recognized the Firm for a few years, having beforehand lined Kenmare as an analyst,” Hickey feedback.
