Neil McDonald has more than 20 years of extensive commercial experience across the energy and minerals sectors in multiple Australian states. He has been involved from greenfield exploration to early development in projects across Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia. He has worked on and helped commercialise some of Australia’s largest exploration projects for private and public companies. As a commercial lawyer, Neil has a strong legal grounding in commercial and regulatory compliance in the resources industry. Areas of focus in his career have been: acquiring new assets for business growth, monetisation of existing assets, engaging domestic and international investors, new partnerships to maximise commercialisation of assets, developing non-partisan relationships at the highest political levels, both Federal and State. Neil is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors