Scott Nicholas

Scott Nicholas is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience across a broad range of financial disciplines within the resources sector including large scale debt and equity project financings, construction and operations contract negotiations, asset acquisitions, and the negotiation and execution of offtake agreements in the mining, oil and gas and utilities industries.

Mr Nicholas was with KPMG in the assurance and advisory division, and had worked for Ernst & Young corporate finance advising mining clients on corporate transactions and capital raisings. He joined Atlantic in January 2010 as corporate development manager and was chief financial officer from July 2013 to December 2018. He was instrumental in raising over $500 million in finance for Atlantic in the acquisition, construction and operation of the Windimurra vanadium project. Mr Nicholas then became one of the founding directors and chief financial officer of MACH Energy Australia, a company that acquired the greenfield Mt Pleasant coal project from Rio Tinto for $US220m. He then spent 3.5 years as chief financial officer of Australian Potash before becoming chief financial officer of Leichhardt in September 2022.

Mr Nicholas holds a Bachelor of Law and Commerce, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and a Senior Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.