Mr Wiggill has extensive experience in the global mining industry including over 25 years in the coal sector, the majority of his experience being within the Anglo American Plc group. Mr Wiggill is currently the Chairman (non-executive) at Buffalo Coal Corp (CVE: BUF) which has two operating coal mines in its portfolio. In addition, he is the Chairman (non-executive) of globalCOAL which is a London registered company, the principal activities of which are the development of standardized contracts for the international coal market and the provision and management of screen based brokerage services for the trading of physical and financial coal contracts. His most recent executive role was as CEO – Coal Americas at Anglo Coal, where he established and developed the Peace River operation in Canada and co-managed joint venture projects at Cerrejón and Guasare. He has also held leadership roles covering commercial, trading and marketing responsibilities, corporate strategy and business development for Anglo American.

Mitch has been involved with mining companies for over 40 years having held leadership and executive
roles with such organizations as Rio Tinto, Shell Coal Australia, Anglo Coal Australia and Stanmore Coal.
During that period he has also been actively involved with a number of associations including AusIMM,
Australian Mine Managers Association ,  Sustainable Minerals Institute – University of Queensland and
the Australian Coal Association.

He is also Chairman of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee and the Nomination & Remuneration Committee.

Dmitry was appointed to the TIG team in the role of Chief Executive Officer on 1 June 2018. Dmitry has over 18 years of cross-sector industrial experience in Russian industrial and financial groups, international investment funds, financial  institutions and international law firms. From 2011 to 2018, Dmitry was with the ICT Group, a large Russian industrial and investment Group, where he was involved in all aspects of investment and project development (with a focus on mining assets) including financial valuation, M&A transactions, project structuring and finance raising. Dmitry has participated in the development of coal mining projects in the Russian Far East on both strategic and operational levels and has over 7 years of experience in coal mining management at the Board and Managing Director level. He has extensive experience in finance, general management and investment project management.

 Dale Joined TIG on 1 October 2018. Prior to joining TIG, Dale served as CFO at Kolmar and Mechel Mining, as well has holding senior finance positions at Coalco and Metalloinvest. He has extensive experience in the mining space in strategy development, financial management and internal control enhancement. Dale 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. Dale 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 to industry, Dale worked in the Transaction Advisory Services group at KPMG in Houston and the Corporate Finance group at EY in Moscow. Dale speaks fluent Russian.

Sergey is a mechanical and mining engineer with over 25 years of experience working in coal mines in Vorkuta and  the Kuzbass. During his career Sergey has obtained extensive production experience in underground and open pit  coal mining, processing and transportation. His has managed large scale operations and his most recent experience has focused on improving the operational efficiency of large coal operations. Prior to joining TIG, Sergey worked for the largest coal companies in Russia, including Severstal and MMK. He initially gained qualifications in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, and completed his Degree in Mining Engineering in 2001.