Our team
Our team is experienced across the full suite of operational technology deployments, business models, stakeholder engagement and capability requirements, backed by a global network of cross-industry technology partners.
Leadership
Our founders
Sharna Glover
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Sharna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Imvelo. She has over 30 years of experience in the resources sector with her career focusing on engineering, technology and people. Her career has spanned from working in the largest global mining and processing house (BHP) for twenty years to being the co-founder of Imvelo which which delivers novel resource engineering models and operational support to the productive embedment of autonomous electrified systems.
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Alan Bye
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Alan is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Imvelo. He has more than 30 years’ experience, across 15 countries and 9 commodities, in operational and strategic roles in the mining industry focused on the innovation and integration of the value chain. His career has included Vice President Technology at BHP, in his global role he was accountable for the execution of major innovation programs across 5 commodity value chains adopting digital and extractive technologies.
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Wider team
Our partners & specialists
Alastair Mathias
Partner
Alastair has over 30 years experience in the resources industry in operations, technology, and corporate roles to successfully strategize, implement, and support cross value chain automation and technology projects across diverse regions, including Africa, Australia, North and South America. Alastair had an extensive career at Rio Tinto including Head of Automation Centre of Excellence and General Manager Mining Automation and Analytics, and Head of Mine Modernisation at Anglo American.
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Chris Elkins
Partner
Chris is a Partner in Imvelo and a resources industry professional with over 16 years’ experience across global operations, mine planning, operational technology strategy and technology investment evaluation. Chris is passionate about business transformation and step-change performance through innovation and technology. He held senior roles inside BHP’s iron ore division, as well as global roles in technology, geoscience, projects and engineering.
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Jeremy Abercrombie
Partner
Jeremy is a hands-on full stack software engineer with decades of experience delivering sustainable software into production for the companies he has worked for. Jeremy has held roles at Anglo American as Principal Application Developer, and at BHP as Innovation Lead. Most recently he led the inception, architecture and development of a web-based supply chain modelling system utilising large scale cloud compute for numerical analysis, simulation and optimisation.
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Brendon Ward
Manager Production Systems
Brendon is a strategic leader with extensive experience in technology implementation, software development, and asset management across complex industrial environments. He has expertise in optimising fleet management systems (FMS), autonomous haulage systems (AHS) software development life cycle (SDLC), and system performance. Brendon is an experienced leader of control room operations, incident management and risk mitigation.
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Brody Watts
Senior Business Analyst
Brody is an experienced product and production management professional with over 8 years of expertise in driving operational efficiency and delivering innovative solutions. Brody specialises in streamlined workflows, process improvements and technology improvements while maintaining cost-effectiveness.
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Lucy Peacey
Senior Business Analyst
Lucy is a strategy and transformation professional with over six years’ experience delivering complex innovation initiatives. She is a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing strategic analysis, governance oversight, and business transformation support to translate ambiguous business challenges into structured outputs.
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