John Forwood is a qualified geologist and lawyer with extensive experience in equity markets, with a particular focus on the junior resources sector. Mr Forwood spent 20 years as a specialist resources financier and fund manager with Rand Merchant Bank in the UK and Australia, the private Telluride Fund in Melbourne, and as chief investment officer of the ASX-listed Lowell Resources Fund. Prior to joining RMB Resources in 1998 he worked as an exploration geologist for North Flinders Mines on IOCG deposits in Tennant Creek, East African Gold Mines in Tanzania drilling out the North Mara gold project, and Aberfoyle Limited exploring for porphyry copper and epithermal gold in Indonesia.
