Full Name
Stephen Grocott
Job Title
Managing Director & CEO
Company
Queensland Pacific Metals
Speaker Bio
Stephen is CEO and MD with Queensland Pacific Metals who are developing the Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub project.
Most recently he was Chief Technical Development Officer at Clean TeQ. Prior to that, Stephen worked with Rio Tinto where he was Chief Advisor - Processing, having global responsibility for Rio Tinto’s process development, operations technical support and investment advice. Before that, he worked with BHP where he was Global Technology Manager - Minerals Separation & Hydrometallurgy.
Since completing Honours and PhD degrees in chemistry he has spent 40 years in process development, commissioning, operations technical support, environment, research and development, intellectual property and mergers & acquisitions/due diligence functions in the international minerals processing industry for Alcoa, Comalco, Southern Pacific Petroleum, Worsley Alumina, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Clean TeQ and now Queensland Pacific Metals.
Stephen is the past Chair of the Board of AMIRA International and is a Fellow of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the RACI from which he received the 2011 RK Murphy Award in Industrial Chemistry. He is also Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in the Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry.
Most recently he was Chief Technical Development Officer at Clean TeQ. Prior to that, Stephen worked with Rio Tinto where he was Chief Advisor - Processing, having global responsibility for Rio Tinto’s process development, operations technical support and investment advice. Before that, he worked with BHP where he was Global Technology Manager - Minerals Separation & Hydrometallurgy.
Since completing Honours and PhD degrees in chemistry he has spent 40 years in process development, commissioning, operations technical support, environment, research and development, intellectual property and mergers & acquisitions/due diligence functions in the international minerals processing industry for Alcoa, Comalco, Southern Pacific Petroleum, Worsley Alumina, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Clean TeQ and now Queensland Pacific Metals.
Stephen is the past Chair of the Board of AMIRA International and is a Fellow of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the RACI from which he received the 2011 RK Murphy Award in Industrial Chemistry. He is also Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in the Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry.
