
Neil Goodman was involved in the design and commissioning of ironmaking plants in Europe, America and Asia for over 20 years.
Mr Goodman has been the managing director of Smelt Tech Consulting since September 2017, a Perth-based company providing consulting services to organisations developing iron ore downstream processing opportunities worldwide. He is also the sole director and shareholder of Appalachian Iron LLC, an entity incorporated in Delaware, with the focus on developing a HIsmelt plant in the United States. Mr Goodman was the general manager of Rio Tinto’s HIsmelt Corporation for more than 10 years, and was also responsible for the design and operation of the first commercial scale HIsmelt plants in Western Australia and China.
He graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Metallurgy, and was the recipient of the Charles Salter prize for excellence in Metallurgy from the Royal School of Mines.