Carmel Daniele

Carmel is Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of CD Capital. Carmel has over 20 years of natural resources investment experience, ten of which were spent with Newmont Mining/Normandy Mining and acquired companies including LaSource SAS (a joint venture between BRGM and Normandy Mining). As Senior Executive (Corporate Advisory and M&A) at Newmont she structured cross-border M&A including the US$24 billion three-way merger between Franco-Nevada, Newmont and Normandy Mining to create the largest gold company in the world. Post-merger Carmel structured the divestment of various non-core mining assets around the world for the merchant banking arm, Newmont Capital. Carmel started off her career at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu where she spent eight years in various corporate finance roles including international taxation, audit, accounting and reconstructions. Prior to setting up CD Capital in September 2006, Carmel spent a year and half as investment advisor to RAB Capital's Special Situations Fund on sourcing and negotiating natural resource private equity investments. Carmel holds a Master of Laws (Corporate & Commercial) and Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.