Nicolaus Heinen

Nicolaus Heinen is the founder and managing partner of Belgrave Capital, a London-based investment management firm. He has been actively involved in the natural resources sector since 2004. Mr Heinen joined private bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. in 1992 as a founding member of its corporate finance team. From 1996 to 1998, he co-managed the bank’s UK institutional equity brokerage arm. From 1999 to 2004, he was managing partner of Rhein Trust, an investment company specialising in venture capital, pre-IPO investments and real estate. In 2004, Mr Heinen founded Mongold Mining, a gold exploration and mining company which developed one of Mongolia’s largest conglomerate gold deposits. As its chief executive, he oversaw the acquisition of the assets, exploration, capital raising and development towards mine production. In 2005, he founded Universal Copper International which discovered, explored and developed one of Mongolia’s largest VMS-style copper deposits (”White Hill”). He was the company’s chief executive until its acquisition by Kerry Mining Group, Singapore in mid- 2008. During his tenure, he was responsible for building up the company from a greenfield project into project advanced exploration/development project. His responsibilities included the creation and implementation of operational and financial structures, substantial capital raising as well as financial/operational controlling. He structured and managed the sale of the company. Other investments have included private equity transactions in various engineering companies as well as real estate. Mr Heinen holds a BSc (Hon.) in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MA in War Studies from King’s College, London.