Benjamin Berrigan

Confident and energetic executive with a strong interest in driving business success. I believe in hard work and setting a vision for individuals and teams to strive for. I am a global traveler with experience working in countries such as South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, India, Russia, Iran, Finland, Gabon, Serbia, Morocco, Canada, and Turkey. I believe in challenging norms and working hard to maximize the performance of teams and individuals. 

My goal is to create sustainable, profitable, and socially responsible companies that are both the envy of competitors and embraced by the community.

Allnorth Consultants (Toronto, Canada): Nov 2021 – Present

Vice President – Minerals and Metals, North America

Responsible for growth of the North American mining business unit. Representing $30M of annual revenue from 15 offices across Canada. Design and roll-out of a strategic growth plan to widen the core capabilities, triple revenue, and firmly establish Allnorth as a “top tier” capital project delivery provider.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Toronto, Canada): 2 years (Jan 2020 – Oct 2021)

Director – Mining and E&C, Canada

Mining and E&C business unit. Client facing role. $4.8M individual sales target. $60M industry sales target. $225M sector sales target. Services included: Enterprise Growth Strategy, Value Creation, Capital Projects Restructuring, ESG, Workforce of the Future, Finance Transformation, Market Penetration, PMI Strategy.

Go-to-Market initiatives to create a pipeline of opportunities for the Canadian region. 

ACCENTURE (Toronto, Canada): 3 Years (May 2017 – Jan 2020)

Director – Go-To-Market Lead – Digital Mining, Canada

Responsible for growth of the Mining & Metals group. Includes, identifying client targets, implementing Go-to-Market initiatives, and creating a pipeline of opportunities within the Canadian and USA regions. 

Help clients identify and adopt digital and IoT technologies into their corporate and operational entities. CAM, EAM, Digital Twin, IIoT, IT/OT, Blockchain, Automation, PLM, and Cloud Systems. 

DRA Global (Toronto, Canada): 1 Year (Mar 2015 – Apr 2016)

Vice President - Business Development

Identify client targets, implement marketing initiatives and create a pipeline of sales opportunities for the North America region.

JACOBS MINERALS Inc. (Toronto, Canada): 3 years (Mar 2012 – Feb 2015)

Director of Operations

•  “Yenipazar Concentrator Project”, Aldridge Minerals., Turkey.  $380M Greenfield Feasibility study (copper, zinc, gold).
• “Care-1 Rare Earth Project”, IAMGold Ltd., Niobec Operations, Quebec Canada. Scoping study,
• “$7.2B OCP Phosphate Project”, Kingdom of Morocco, El Jadida, Morocco.

SNC-LAVALIN Inc. (Toronto, Canada): 7 Years (Jul 2005 – Mar 2012)

Project Engineering Manager

• “Copper Flash Furnace & Acid Plant Project”, RTB BOR Ltd., Bor, Serbia. $420M EPC-LSTK project,
• “Gordes Nickel Project”, Metanickel Ltd., Gordes, Turkey. $220M Greenfield EPCM HPAL Nickel laterite project,
• “Amursk Gold POX/CIL Project'', Polymetal Ltd., Komsomol’sk, Russia. $190M Greenfield EP gold project,
• “Kittila Mine Project”, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., Lapland, Finland. $90M Greenfield EPCM POX/CIL gold project,
• “Sulawesi Nickel Smelter project”, Rio Tinto Ltd., Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. $5.6B Scoping Study for Greenfield nickel laterite operation, 
• “Choco 10 Gold Mine”, Goldfields Ltd., Bolivar State, Venezuela. $40M Brownfield gold leach/CIP Scoping Study,
• “Novoshirokinskoye Lead Smelter”, Rusdragmet Ltd., Chita, Siberia, Russia. Scoping level review of Kivcet direct smelting furnace design. 
• “Kabanga Nickel Project”, Xstrata Ltd., / Barrick Gold Ltd., Ngara, Tanzania. Scoping study of nickel sulphide concentrator.

HATCH ASSOCIATES: 5 years (2000 – 2005)

Senior Process Engineer (Toronto, Canada)

• Seconded to BHP-Billiton Ltd. KNS Smelter, Kalgoorlie, Australia. 
• “Noranda Hybrid Project”, Noranda/Falconbridge Ltd, Timmins, Canada. 

 Commissioning Area Manager (North West Province, South Africa)

• “ACP Project”, Anglo American Ltd., Waterval, Nth Transvaal, South Africa. Construction supervision and commissioning of $700M nickel/platinum smelter,
• “Capacity Study for QNI Refinery”, BHP-Billiton Ltd., Townsville, Australia. 

NYRSTAR Ltd.: 6 years (1994 – 2000)

Corporate Engineer (Melbourne, Australia)

• Energy efficiency improvement projects for all Australian operations. 

Process Engineer (Newcastle, New South Wales) 

• Group Technical Support, Newcastle, Australia. 

Project Metallurgist (Port Pirie, South Australia) 

• Commissioning of Continuous Oxygen Lead Softening Process. 
• Commissioning of Lead Sinter Plant. 
• Design and Commissioning of Silver Nitrate Electrolyte Purification System. 
• Capacity Study of Silver Electro-Refining Plant.
• Design, Construction and Operation of Silver Electro-Refining Pilot Plant.

Undergraduate Positions:

• BHP BILLITON - Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs, South, Australia): 6 months (1992 – 1993)
• NYRSTAR – Rosebery Mine (Rosebery, Tasmania):  3 months(1991)

Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering), 1994 

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia