Vancouver-based Jason Bahnsen is a Canadian/Australian mining engineer with over 30 years of experience in natural resources finance and operations. He has held CEO roles for several private and listed resource exploration and development companies.
Mr Bahnsen began his career in mine development, working for underground mine contracting companies in Canada, Indonesia and Australia. He has held production roles at several gold mine operations in capacities as mine planning engineer, project engineer and shift boss.
Following several years at Rio Tinto in Australia where he was involved in mine feasibility study work and business development roles, he moved into investment banking. Mr Bahnsen spent almost 10 years as a resource banker with Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank, and Fox Davies Capital on major international resource acquisition and equity market transactions.