Dean Felton has over 25 years of mining industry experience and was a co-founder and director of Oyster Consulting.
He has a wealth of experience focused on strategic management, business development and M&As. He also has extensive accounting and finance experience in a number of industries including mining, stockbroking, the public sector and private practice.
Mr Felton had held senior management and consulting roles at Rio Tinto, BHP and Vale. He was managing the business analysis function, an in-house advisory team, for Rio Tinto. Mr Felton has worked with emerging mining companies to provide strategic management for the earliest stages of company development and has also managed the due diligence and financial analysis for a multinational business exploring investment opportunities in Australian resource companies. At Rio Tinto, Mr Felton worked in externally focused areas covering work in mergers and acquisitions, being a key member on the US$2bn North Ltd acquisition by Rio Tinto.
