Expertise and career highlights

Beresford's principal remit is to service SFA (Oxford)'s wide range of clients worldwide. He has responsibility for the analyst teams, product delivery and innovation, and is the lead research author. Beresford is also Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Beresford has been a strategic metals market analyst for over 20 years. In this time, his development and deep understanding of the markets have been fast-tracked with extensive industry exposure throughout the upstream and downstream industries. Beresford has led research projects in PGMs, battery metals and materials, automotive technology and other strategic commodities for OEMs, fabricators, end-users, recyclers and suppliers.

He has extensive upstream experience, including high-profile work in M&A defence, acquisitions and capital raisings ($5 billion to date), project valuations, on-site mine restructuring, feasibility studies, industry workshops and Board-level motivations and strategy. He is regularly contracted to carry out work for mining companies, refiners, end-users, recyclers and investors.

Besides these critical metals, he has produced research on numerous commodities, including chrome, gold, base metals, other industrial metals and oil.

Selected presentation events:

• RMB Morgan Stanley Big 5 Conference

• LBMA conference

• IPMI conference

• SA Indaba

• Heraeus China, USA, Germany and UK client conferences

• SAIMM Platinum Conferences

• PGM expert on numerous investor roadshows