Corporate team

The Board

Paul Harris

Independent Non-Executive Chairman

Carles Alemán

Carles Alemán

CEO

Pauline Carr

Independent Non-Executive Director

Katelyn Adams

Company Secretary

Management Team

Carles Alemán

Carles Alemán

CEO

Olivier Vadillo

Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development

Javier Aguado

Javier Aguado

CFO

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Paul Harris

Independent Non-Executive Chairman, B Comm, M Eng. (Mining) GAICD

As recently announced to the ASX, Mr. Harris will join the Board of Highfield Resources Limited as an independent non-executive Director and Chairman on 25 March 2022. Mr. Harris has over 25 years’ experience in financial markets and investment banking, including roles with Citibank, Bankers Trust and Merrill Lynch advising mining organisations on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. He is well known by the Australian investment community and was also Managing Director – Head of Metals and Mining at Citi for several years.

Most recently Mr. Harris has been working with mining company boards as a non-executive director as well as providing advisory services on strategy and finance. He is currently the non-executive Chairman of ASX-listed Aeon Metals Limited (ASX: AML) and a non-executive Director of ASX listed Aurelia Metals Ltd (ASX:AMI). In the three years immediately prior to the end of the financial year Mr. Harris did not hold any other ASX listed company directorships.

Mr. Harris has a Masters of Engineering (Mining) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Carles Aleman

Head of Plant Construction and HSE

In addition to degrees in Business Sciences and Pharmacy, Carles Aleman has a Masters degree in Chemistry as well as an MBA from the ESADE Business School in Barcelona.

During his more than 30 years’ experience he worked in international focused managerial roles in the chemical sector with companies including BASF and CIBA-GEIGY and in Pymag-Curtin where he was Managing Director. Carles has spent the last eight years working at ICL in Spain, where he was the President since 2018. He has been Board member in different companies and in Industrial and Employers Associations.

Pauline Carr

Independent Non Executive Director

Pauline trained as an accountant and is a compliance and governance professional with over 35 years` experience in the Australian and international mining and resources sectors. Pauline has held senior positions in Newmont Asia Pacific and Normandy Mining Limited and also worked for Exxon Mobil. She is an experienced Director and her current roles include being a non-executive Director of ASX listed Australian Rare Earths Limited.

Chairman of the Audit, Business Risk and Compliance Committee

Chairman Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Katelyn Adams

Company Secretary

Katelyn is a partner of HLB Mann Judd, with over 10 years of accounting and company secretarial experience, servicing predominantly ASX listed companies.

Katelyn has extensive knowledge in company secretarial duties, ASX Listing Rule requirements, IPO and capital raising processes, as well as a strong technical accounting knowledge.

Katelyn is also the Company Secretary of Duxton Water Limited and Duxton Broadacre Farms Limited.

Olivier Vadillo

Head of Marketing & Investor Relations

Olivier Vadillo has a graduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc from the London School of Economics. With more than 12 years´ professional experience in strategic consultancy. He has worked for companies such as Wood Mackenzie and Deloitte MCS Ltd where he developed business strategies and financial models.

Previously he was the Head of Metals Research for Wood Mackenzie, Sydney. He also has previous experience as a strategic consultant for various mining and energy companies.

He speaks English. French, Polish and Spanish fluently.

Javier Aguado

CFO

Javier has over 20 years’ accounting and financial experience. He has worked for the international accounting firm Ernst and Young and for the global Spanish based construction and energy company Acciona where he held different positions as Financial Controller and International affiliates reporting Manager for over 12 years. He joined Highfield in 2018, where he has worked as Financial Manager and gained detailed knowledge of the Company’s financial operations and strategy.