SYDNEY: Force Commodities Limited announced the appointment of Simon Pooley as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Simon Pooley is a geologist with over thirty years of broad international experience encompassing roles in the corporate, mine development, operations, and exploration areas. Simon has held senior industry positions that have demonstrated leadership and management of base and precious metal exploration and mining operations, development of project assessment types including definitive/bankable feasibility studies and their conversion into mining operations and managed teams undertaking exploration evaluations and valuations.

Simon is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. His career includes work for Dominion Mining, Ashton Mining and Rio Tinto covering commodities as diverse as gold, base metals, diamonds and industrial minerals. He has helped lead a number of mining operation start-ups from exploration through to construction and production.

Pooley is currently a Non-Executive Director with Superior Resources Limited.

Force’s Chairman, Jess Oram comments; “we are very pleased to have Simon driving the next phase of growth to develop value for all stakeholders. His experience in building gold and copper mines, from advanced exploration through to operations compliments the development plans of the Company”.