Dale Bender has extensive experience within the mining industry in strategy development, financial management and internal control enhancement. He has negotiated a broad variety of structured debt & project finance transactions under both Russian and English law, and led several large M&A transactions and debt restructurings.
Mr Bender was responsible for the first-time adoption of JORC reporting for large Russian mining operations, and led three separate first-time adoptions of IFRS at Russian conglomerates.
Before making the transition into the mining industry, Mr Bender worked in the transaction advisory services group of KPMG in Houston and the corporate finance group of EY in Moscow.
He was chief financial officer at Kolmar and Mechel Mining prior to becoming chief financial officer of Tigers Real Coal in October 2018. He also held senior finance positions at Coalco and Metalloinvest.
