Grant Hudson
Chief Executive Officer

Mr Hudson is a finance and law graduate with a Masters of Business Administration who has a long history in mining with extensive experience in shareholder and stakeholder relations. 

Prior to joining Globe, Mr Hudson was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Bikita Minerals, which has been mining lithium and tantalite in the Bikita hills of the Masvingo province in Zimbabwe for around 100 years, and is the world’s foremost supplier of the lithium mineral petalite.

Mr Hudson’s other former involvements include 3 years as Manager of the M’beta tantalite mine in Zimbabwe and 3 years as Managing Director of Tantalite Holdings.

Paul Smith
Chief Operating Officer

Mr Smith has over 30 years’ experience as a senior mining industry executive across exploration, feasibility, project development, and operations management on a global platform. He has extensive experience with start-up and turnaround strategies, leveraging significant expertise in stockbroking, corporate finance, and project funding in delivering key business objectives.

Mr Smith has previously held senior executive positions with Aquarius Platinum Limited (now part of Sibanye Stillwater Limited), Weiszwe Platinum Limited, and more recently Impala Platinum Holdings Limited.

Mr Smith has a Bachelor of Science, Geology & Chemistry from Rhodes University (South Africa), a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Stellenbosch University (South Africa), a Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy from Camborne School of Mines (United Kingdom), and a Master of Business Administration from Stellenbosch University (South Africa).

Rex Zietsman
Chief Technical Officer

Mr Zietsman is a highly experienced chemical engineer with a Masters of Business Administration who has broad engineering and project management experience gained over a career of thirty-five years that has involved working across a broad range of industries and commodities including rare earths, niobium, tantalum, uranium, phosphoric acid and biomass renewable energies.

Mr Zietsman recently occupied the positions of Project Manager and Mine Executive for Bikita Minerals in Zimbabwe, where he worked closely with Grant Hudson. Among other projects, he was involved in the prefeasibility study for a new spodumene concentrator and the debottlenecking of the Bikita tantalite gravity separation plant. Other significant relevant experience includes: Technical Director for AR Process Projects who participated in numerous uranium related projects including the engineering of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Fuel Plant programme, specialist scrubbing systems for Uranium One and a large scale slurry preheater for Paladin Energy in Namibia; consulted to Tantalite Resources in South Africa on the solvent extraction of niobium and tantalum and the building of the new tantalum K-salt plant; was the Competent Person signatory and consultant in the development of a unique process flow for the concentrator for the Frontier Rare Earths Project in the Northern Cape of South Africa, and Study Manager for a Bankable Feasibility Study for the Botswana Development Corporation for the Selibe Phikwe Tailings to Fertiliser Project.

Mr Zietsman oversees Globe’s engineering and construction teams working on the Kanyika Niobium Project which involves team building and leading, external and internal relationship management, risk identification, management and reporting, contractual management, the management of mining, processing and site administration personnel, and reporting against agreed business and management plans.

Charles Altshuler
Chief Financial Officer

Mr Altshuler has over 18 years’ experience as a Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ and CA SA) and holds an Australian MBA, and advanced project management qualifications from Stanford University.

Prior to joining Globe, Mr Altshuler held senior finance positions in Anglo American and other large corporations in various industries in South Africa, and more recently was the Chief Financial Officer of an ASX-listed pharmaceuticals company.

Mr Altshuler has extensive experience in capital raises, off-take agreements, introduction of strategic investors, mergers and acquisitions, post-merger synergies, and cost reduction projects. His considerable experience in both Africa and Australia ensures he plays a key role as Globe’s Chief Financial Officer in maximising value for Globe and its shareholders.

Paul Hardie
General Counsel & Company Secretary

Mr Hardie has more than 20 years’ professional, corporate, and business experience in senior legal and corporate advisory roles, as well as a range of executive management and non-executive appointments. His extensive boardroom experience includes ASX-listed entities, unlisted public companies, and proprietary organisations across different industries including mining and resources, manufacturing, technology, and financial services.

Prior to joining Globe, Mr Hardie was part of the mergers and acquisitions team at a top-tier national law firm before establishing his own commercial law practice specialising in general corporate and commercial advisory, regulatory compliance, and M&A for start-ups and ASX-listed entities. Mr Hardie was previously the General Counsel & Company Secretary of ASX-listed Matrix Composites & Engineering Ltd (ASX: MCE).

Mr Hardie is admitted as a practitioner of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia and has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, and a member of The Tax Institute and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Neville Huxham
Malawi In-Country Manager, Chairman - Globe Subsidiary in Malawi

Mr Huxham has extensive management experience in mining operations, particularly in Africa, where he played a key role in Malawi’s major uranium mining development. He is a specialist in Government and Community Relations, Communication and CSR, and has worked for leading multi-national mining organisations at senior executive level in numerous African countries, as well as in Australia, Europe, UK, Russia, Siberia (Sakha Republic) and Kazakhstan.

As Globe’s Country Manager in Lilongwe, Malawi, Mr Huxham has responsibility for negotiating the Development Agreement with the Malawi Government for the Kanyika Niobium Project and manages the Lilongwe local office. Formally, he had a 30-year career as a senior executive with the Anglo American Corporation/De Beers Group, and worked with exploration, precious metals and diamond mining, sales and marketing, and was extensively involved with global government authorities, diamond producers, and media engagement.

As Paladin’s first (formal) Country Manager and deputy chairman in Malawi, Mr Huxham led the Government interface and community relations of the Kayelekera Project until the project achieved Commercial Production. He was intimately involved in establishing relations with all stakeholders and personally designed, implemented, and managed community interaction protocols in the Karonga and Kayelekera area.

Dean Lungu
Director - Globe Subsidiary in Malawi

Mr Dean Lungu is President of the Malawi Chamber of Mines and Energy, and currently serves on the boards of numerous companies including TNM, Alliance Capital, and MyBucks Bank Corporation. He has extensive experience in the private sector: is a former chairman of Malawi Railways and of Press Corporation, and a director of Malawi Bureau of Standards, Intraco (London-based), Macsteel, Select Financial Services Ltd and Marsh (MW) Ltd. 

Mr Lungu has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (University of Massachussets, USA, 1975) and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK, 1979). He is a Registered Professional Engineer and worked as an engineer during the 70s with Portland Cement Co. In 1980 he joined Maltraco Ltd, Malawi’s Caterpillar dealership, rising to the position of Chief Executive before setting up his own engineering construction company in 1997. He is the promoter and Chairman of Bwanje Cement Company, establishing an integrated greenfield cement production plant in Ntcheu District of Malawi, with an initial clinker capacity of 500,000 tpy. 

Lisungu Banda
Senior Accountant / Director - Globe Subsidiary in Malawi

Mr Banda is a qualified accountant with significant resources experience. A Malawian national based in Globe’s Lilongwe office, Mr Banda is responsible for all financial reporting related to Globe’s Projects in Malawi. Prior to joining Globe in 2008, Mr Banda held the position of Company Accountant with Macsteel.

Mr Banda is currently studying the CIMA professional Scheme and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM) (formerly Society of Accountants in Malawi).

Chrispine Ngwena
Senior Geologist

Mr Ngwena has worked extensively in the minerals exploration sector for more than 15 years focusing on the extraction of coal, zinc, gold, uranium, niobium, tantalum and zircon. A Malawian national, Mr Ngwena joined Globe from Geological Survey Department of Malawi and briefly worked for Saurus Resources Limited in 2007 bringing with him a wealth of experience.

Mr Ngwena has been managing the definitive feasibility study for Kanyika Niobium Project and also involved in all the exploration projects for Globe, and responsible for all the Environmental Monitoring activities for Kanyika Niobium project. He has worked for Globe in projects both in Malawi and in Mozambique and is well experienced in initiating projects and also in handling the communities in project areas.

Mr Ngwena has recently completed his studies in Masters of Science in Project Management with University of Bolton and has significant experience in managing projects in Africa.