Ed holds an MA in Earth Sciences from Oxford University having been awarded a scholarship and an MSc in Mineral Deposit Evaluation achieving distinction and having been awarded a scholarship from Imperial College, London. 

Chris, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, MSc DIC in Mineral Exploration, is an exploration/ economic geologist with more than 30 years’ experience in the mining sector. He has substantial knowledge of graphite and base metals, a particular skill set which is complimentary to Beowulf’s team, and was Manager for the exploration and development of a graphite deposit in Tanzania.

Chris has worked as a geologist in many different parts of the world including Africa, Australia, Yemen, Indonesia and Eastern Europe. His most recent role was as a Consultant to an Australian Group seeking copper-gold assets in Africa where he carried out technical due diligence and negotiated commercial terms for joint venture partnerships. Chris was Operations Director of African Eagle until March 2012 and Country Manager for SAMAX Resources in Tanzania, which was acquired by Ashanti Goldfields in 1998 for US$135m.

Mikael Schauman, a Swedish national, has been involved in base metals for the past forty years. Mikael is versed in the field of mining, management of mining companies as well as commercialisation of the products.

Mikael Schauman holds a BSc in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics. He started his career at Boliden and subsequently spent 18 years at various commodity trading companies. For the past 16 years he served in the senior management of Lundin Mining Corporation as VP and SVP Commercial. In this role he had sole responsibility for the company’s commercial organisation and world-wide sales. Mikael has at the same time actively contributed to increasing growth within Lundin Mining, for example via the acquisitions and mergers made over the years. In the role of senior manager, he has also contributed to developing the Groups sustainability work.

Since 2012, Mr. Blomqvist has been exploring for flake graphite within the Fennoscandian shield and is one of the most experienced graphite geologists in the Nordic region. He has also over the years gained an extensive knowledge of the graphite anode materials value-chain. Prior to Grafintec, Mr. Blomqvist was Chief Geologist for Nussir ASA, managing its exploration team and achieving significant exploration success for the company.

Prior to Nussir, Mr. Blomqvist worked as an independent consultant for several international mining companies including Mawson Resources, Tasman Metals and Agnico Eagle and has experience in graphite, gold, base metals and iron ore, within the Nordic region.

Mr Blomqvist is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (“MAusIMM”).

Since 2015, Dmytro has been working at Sweco, the leading architecture and engineering consultancy, focusing solely on mine environment projects in Scandinavia and internationally. During this time, he has served as assignment leader, business development manager, and most recently team leader for Sweco’s mine environment unit. Within this role, Dmytro has overseen a broad range of assignments focused on mine development, operation and permitting.

Dmytro is an accomplished project manager with a strong technical background and excellent interpersonal skills. His immediate tasks will be to oversee and propel the ongoing Pre-Feasibility Study and environmental work in preparation for the environmental permitting process.