Our Team

Sharna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Imvelo. She has over 25 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.   

Alan is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Imvelo. He has more than 20 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.

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. 

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.

Melodie has over 5 years’ experience of designing, managing and implementing complex large scale technology transformation across the mining industry and management consulting. She is a confident and trusted advisor whose strength lies in combining technical proficiency with strong business acumen, evaluating strategic options and informing recommendations for critical business decisions that deliver value. 

David is a chemical engineer with 27 years of experience in the mining and metals industry. His experience covers both owners and EPCM roles, in addition to having held both operations and project positions. David’s areas of expertise cover: operations, project management, project development and management across the business cycle, technology development, improvement programs, project controls and risk assessment.