Bernardo da Veiga
Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director / Brazilian Rare Earths
Most Notable Role
Dr da Veiga started his career as an Investment Banker with UBS and Azure Capital in Australia, where he worked in a team that advised many companies in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, hybrid instruments and debt advisory. Prior to founding BRE, Dr da Veiga spent the last decade in senior leadership roles in a number of mining companies in Brazil, including as CEO of a producing tungsten mine, Managing Director of a gold exploration company and from 2015 to 2021 CEO of South American Ferro Metals Limited, a privately owned iron ore producer that grew from a bankrupt business in 2015 producing c.700ktpa when Bernardo took over as CEO to a profitable company producing c.2.05Mtpa in 2021.
