TEAM

With over twenty years’ experience in mining executive search, James brings a vast global network for board and C-suite placements. He is capable in any senior management function and works exclusively on a retained basis.

Alongside working as an active Consultant for a loyal client base, James fulfils the role of Managing Director for our UK and Australian offices with business development responsibility for our Mine Site team.

Hobbies: Family life, property renovation, singer songwriter.

E-mail: james.young@extractivesearch.com

Haris joined Extractive Search as a graduate (1st class in Business) and has rapidly progressed to Senior Consultant by running our Investment and Corporate Technical Desks.

Mining PE firms are referred to Haris via reputation to build their internal teams which often leads to him being retained by their portfolio companies for board and C-suite positions.

Haris also manages our Corporate technical team overseeing senior placements in listed and private head offices all over the world with a core strength in Canada and EMEA.

Hobbies: Playing cricket, fitness, fine dining and international travel.

E-mail: haris.hussain@extractivesearch.com

After achieving a master’s degree from St Andrews (1st class in Geography and Spanish), Max joined Extractive Search as an Associate.
He has since progressed to Senior Consultant in our Corporate team and is retained for C-suite and Senior management positions with a core focus on Finance & ESG. As a fluent Spanish speaker, Max is our global lead for Latin America with some oversite of Site campaigns.

Max is also on the board of YMP (Young Mining Professionals) and is an avid networker at global conferences. He also leads our salary survey offering in partnership with Ruth White.

Hobbies: Padel & Tennis, Spanish literature & film, international travel, whiskey connoisseur.

E-mail: max.gilligan@extractivesearch.com

Edward joined Extractive Search having previously held senior leadership positions within the luxury hotel industry. Relocating from The Ritz London to the Pan Pacific Group in Perth saw Edward foster and enjoy many B2B sales relationships within the mining industry which ignited his passion for the sector.

Edward is now our Global lead for Senior Project and Mine Site leaders while simultaneously setting up our Corporate office in Perth, strengthening our Corporate technical offering in Australasia.

Edward is often retained by the majors to help better position their major and mega project portfolios as they navigate the war for senior project talent.

Hobbies: Surfing, kite surfing, working out and walking his dog: Chester Hester.

E-mail: edward.hester@extractivesearch.com

A Sociology graduate with over ten years’ experience in search, selection, finance and administration, Ruth offers internal support to our Consultants with a core focus on searches, referencing, proposal writing, client research, process administration and salary surveys.

As a highly skilled interviewer, Ruth collaborates with our Consultants on client briefings and screening calls for long list development.

Hobbies: Reading, exercise, travel and family life.

E-mail: ruth.white@extractivesearch.com