Board of Directors
The Altamin leadership team brings extensive expertise across mine development, project financing, corporate strategy, and regulatory compliance, with a strong track record of delivering value in the resources sector.

Peter Edwards, Chairman
Peter is the Non-Executive Chairman and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Altamin board. He represents the Company’s majority shareholder, Victor Smorgon Group, one of Australia’s most established and successful family offices, operating since 1995 across multiple asset classes as a family-run operating and investment company.
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Under Peter's leadership, the portfolio of the Victor Smorgon Group has grown to include a range of successful businesses, partnerships and investments. Peter has played a pivotal role in the Victor Smorgon Group’s strategic investments in the resources sector, and as executive Chairman and Co-CIO of the Group’s investment portfolio, he oversees investments in themes such as gold, decarbonisation, automation and emerging markets, reflecting his deep understanding of resource-based opportunities and their long-term value.
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Peter is also actively engaged in philanthropic initiatives, continuing the strong tradition of philanthropy that has been an enduring hallmark of the Smorgon family for generations.
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Peter was appointed to the Altamin Board on 22 August 2025.

Geraint Harris, Chief Executive Officer
Geraint serves the Company as a Director and CEO and brings his skills in strategy, operations, commercial and stakeholder engagement and experience with global capital markets. Having started his career as a mining engineer, he has accumulated over 30 years’ of multi-disciplinary mining industry experience in which he has held senior positions across multiple commodities, geographies and markets including as the CEO for Adriatic Metals Limited, which he led through its ASX listing process and its further development.
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Having previously led the Company in developing the Lazio and Gorno projects, he has a deep knowledge of Altamin’s assets, key stakeholders and of operating projects in Italy.
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Geraint was appointed to the Altamin Board on 22 August 2025.

Stephen Hills, Finance Director, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Stephen was appointed to the board having initially joined the Group as CFO. He has extensive experience in senior finance roles with ASX and TSX listed mining companies with gold, nickel and copper producing assets. Before joining Altamin he was involved with the financing, commissioning and operations of the Kipoi Copper Project in the DRC, and before that the TSX listing of Mirabela Nickel Limited and subsequent initial syndicated project financing for the Santa Rita nickel mine in Brazil. He was CFO of Gallery Gold Limited, which developed the Mupane Gold project in Botswana, and prior to that CFO of a global laboratory services group before its sale to SGS Group.
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Stephen was appointed to the Altamin Board on 26 June 2017.