Amit Tyagi

Amit Tyagi was most recently Senior Vice President, Business Development in the Coal & Carbon Complex division of Noble Group (Noble), a major global commodity trader where he was responsible for origination of coal investments worldwide. His role included more than 5 years direct involvement in Indonesian operations, including identification and assessment of prospective greenfield operations, negotiation of appropriate contractual arrangements through to profitable production and sales.

Highlights of Amit employment at Noble include the identification of M&A opportunities; leading valuation of all targets, resulting in successful acquisitions in Australia, South Africa and Indonesia; managing the technical, legal and financial due diligence of and negotiating with target coal companies and structured finance counterparts and managing external legal counsel to finalise transaction documentation.

Prior to Noble, Amit worked in the Strategy and Business Development at BHP Billiton. During his time at BHPB Mr Tyagi worked on a number of high profile M&A transactions and provided executives with important information and analysis to aid in reaching major investment and divestment decisions.Amit began his career as a Project Engineer at RGC Ltd and later WMC Ltd.

Amit is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds degrees in Master of Science in Finance from Boston College, Master of Business Administration from Melbourne Business School, Graduate Diploma in Mineral Exploration Geoscience from Western Australia and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (with honours) from University of Western Australia.