Malcolm (Mal) James is a business graduate of RMIT University (Melbourne) with over 30 years of experience in merchant banking, engineering, manufacturing, mining, energy, financing, philanthropic and social ventures. For over 25 years, he was actively involved in identifying, exploring, financing and developing a number of significant natural resource and energy projects in Australia, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America and the USA.
Mr James has held executive and non-executive board positions on several Australian and London listed companies, business associations, sporting and not-for profit organisations. He has also been directly involved in over A$2 billion of equity and debt financing, and was a founding director of Resource & Capital Management – a boutique resource and capital management firm responsible for the identification, financing and listing of several projects/companies on the Australian and London Securities Exchanges.