Geoff Kidd

Geoff Kidd has over 35 years of experience working in senior positions in and around the mining industry. He has an extensive background in successfully managing the risks associated with managing, studying, designing, purchasing, building, and commissioning new mines together with the expansion & optimisation of new and existing mine developments.

He was managing director, chief operating officer, operations manager, general manager, engineering manager, project manager and regional manager of mining companies or leading consultants to the mining industry. Mr Kidd was chief operating officer for Coalworks prior to its takeover by Whitehaven and has worked successfully on numerous aspects of mining developments in all states of Australia and in Irian Jaya, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, South America, China, and USA.

Mr Kidd was founding director and partner of Sedgman & Associates (later Sedgman Limited) and a founding director of Mineral Control Instrumentation (later Scantech Limited), a company which commercialised CSIRO inventions for the mining industry. He was the inaugural chair of Austmine, a Federal Government initiative to export Australian mining expertise and services. He has also been a member of Australian trade delegations, and has chaired a number of mining industry professional bodies & associations.