He brings more than 40 years of leadership across mining, tailings, dams, hydropower, major infrastructure, and complex project delivery. His experience includes executive responsibility for business growth, financial planning, investment strategy, risk management, and the delivery of large capital programs.

At GTMI, Ed is focused on strengthening accountability, transparency, and investor confidence across the mining sector. He works with mining companies, technical experts, governments, investors, and other stakeholders to advance safer tailings management and financially sustainable assurance systems. His leadership supports responsible mineral development, resilient mining operations, improved risk governance, and the long-term investment needed to supply minerals essential to economic growth and the global energy transition.

With over 25 years of experience across mining, petro-chemical and large infrastructure projects, she is a trusted advisor to Canadian Indigenous communities, governments, international organisations, multilateral development banks, and private sector clients globally.

Dr. Shandro was the technical lead for a Health Impact Assessment (commissioned by an Indigenous Health Authority) on the Mount Polley tailings dam failure in Canada. As an Associate with Priscu and Associates Consulting Engineers Inc., she has undertaken independent GISTM conformance verifications for over 30 tailings facilities in the Americas. She also serves as an Independent Director and Chair of the Health, Safety, Environment and Social Performance committee with Artemis Gold Inc.

Kristin's current role is Principal of Water & Waste with Newmont Corporation, where she has supported conformance processes for the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management and the Cyanide Code. Kristin is based in Toronto, Canada.

A Professional Engineer since 2008, Jeronimo spent 13 years in engineering consultancy, working on water and tailings projects in Mongolia, Canada, The United States, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Suriname, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He joined BHP in 2019 as Practice Lead Tailings for Minerals Americas and, since 2024, has served as Head of Tailings Excellence and BHP’s Tailings Group Risk Representative. Jeronimo represents BHP on ICMM’s Tailings Working Group and the Tailings Committee of the Chilean Mining Council. Jeronimo is also a member of the International Council on Large Dams (ICOLD) in Chile and the Canadian Dam Association (CDA).

Vicente led Brazil’s Independent Mining Audit Program, reporting to state and federal authorities on the response to the Fundão and Brumadinho tailings facility disasters, making it the largest formal mining audit programme globally. He led the Independent Technical and Environmental team to audit the Rio Doce Agreement between Vale, BHP, Samarco, and Brazilian authorities, the world’s largest environmental and social restoration agreement signed after the failure of a tailings dam. He has advised federal judges on topics ranging from ecological risk and water safety to housing, food contamination, and biodiversity recovery.

He has also led the team which supported Brazil’s National Mining Agency in inspecting 229 high-risk dams and contributed to policy development for upstream tailings dam closure. Vicente serves on multiple expert panels, including for the UN Environment Programme.

Using her technical experience of design, construction and auditing of tailings on five different continents and across most commodities, Naomi has established ZRS’ Tailings Risk Grading Standard, to improve and standardise risk evaluation of tailings operations. In her role as ZRS Senior Risk Engineer for one of the leading insurers in the mining sector, she has had an unparalleled overview of technical documentation of global mining projects.