Paul Sims is a certified practising accountant with over 25 years of experience as an executive in the resources industry.
Mr Sims has worked in the finance and commercial areas with Energy Resources of Australia, BHP, WMC Resources and Minara Resources. At Minara he was the commercial manager and acting chief financial officer and was involved in the transformation of the Murrin Murrin laterite nickel operation into a profitable operating mine. Mr Sims subsequently became chief financial officer at Gippsland, an Australian resources company focused on establishing a tin/tantalum mine in Egypt. He was also chief financial officer, and later became chief executive, of Karara Mining.