Charlie Bendon
Charlie has spent over 20 years focused on finance in the mining sector. Having started his career as the tech bubble burst in 1999/2000 at Old Mutual Securities, Charlie joined the corporate broking department of Williams de Broe in 2002 before leaving to establish the equity sales franchise of Ambrian Partners. Having helped build Ambrian into an established mining boutique, he left in 2010 as the business was bought by RFC. After two years at Liberum Capital he was hired to GMP Securities as Head of Equity Sales in 2012. Following the introduction of MIFid II, Richard Greenfield, Mitch Limb and Charlie started Tamesis as a new model working for mining companies looking for finance in 2016.
Richard Greenfield
Richard qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003 before commencing an investment banking career in 2005, almost all of which has focused on the mining sector. While at Ambrian Partners Richard worked alongside Charlie Bendon as part of that firm’s Extel #1 ranked mining team, acting as Nominated Adviser to a large portfolio of junior and mid-tier companies and concluding a wide range of IPO, secondary financing and M&A transactions. Richard joined GMP Securities Europe LLP as a partner in 2010 as part of a significant expansion of GMP’s London operations, with a particular focus on dual and overseas listed companies and cross border advisory transactions.
Mitch Limb
Mitch has direct mining industry experience having worked on-site as part of the owners’ team during the construction phase of what is now Teranga Gold Corporation’s Sabodala Gold Mine in Eastern Senegal. Following a subsequent move to London, Mitch commenced his investment banking career with GMP Securities Europe LLP where he worked as part of the mining team, concluding a wide range of equity, debt, and M&A transactions across commodity groups and jurisdictions. Mitch holds a BCom from Monash University in Melbourne and a GradDip Economics from SOAS, University of London.
David Butler
David has over 20 years’ investment banking experience, starting in mining research at JP Morgan Cazenove before leading mining research teams at JP Morgan and most recently Barclays Capital. He has been at the forefront of the expansion of the sector on the London Stock Exchange since 1999 leading the IPOs of a large number of companies as an equity research analyst. Before commencing his investment banking career David held positions as a chartered mining and civil engineer in industry having graduated as a mining engineer from Imperial College, London.
Gabriele Ejikeme
Prior to joining Tamesis, Gabriele gained 6 years’ investment experience with Cutfield Freeman & Co, specialising in the metals and mining industry. He has worked across a wide range of advisory transactions covering M&A, joint ventures and all manner of corporate and project debt financings. He has worked with major mining companies down to mid-tier and juniors and across a wide range of commodities and projects around the world.
Gabriele graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Master’s degree in Real Estate Finance and a BA (Hons) degree in Land Economy (Economics, Law & Environment). He is bilingual, being fluent in English and Italian.
Ivan Briechle
Ivan has over 2.5 years investment banking experience, working in both Corporate Finance and Equity Research. Since joining Tamesis, he has supported the team across a wide range of transactions, including M&A, strategic financing, debt advisory and both public and private equity fundraisings. He has also supported Research on the publication of initiation notes and on-going coverage of Tamesis's corporate clients. Ivan is a qualified chartered account with SAICA, and completed his training within BDO's Natural Resources team in London. Ivan is trilingual, being fluent in English, Spanish and German.
Michael Daffey
Michael has over 28 years of experience in the financial services sector at Goldman Sachs, the last 18 of those years as a partner. He recently served as Chairman of the Global Markets Division, and a Member of the Firmwide Management Committee. In this role, Michael acted as a trusted advisor for some of Goldman’s most prominent clients. Previously he co-headed the firm’s global equity business based out of the UK.
In addition to Goldman’s Firmwide Management Committee, Michael acted as a member of the European Management Committee, Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee, and Global Markets Executive Committee.
Michael is currently Chairman of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd (TSX: GLXY), a digital asset and blockchain leader providing access to the growing digital economy.