The Commodity Watch Board of directors has a range of experience in fund
management, journalism and the sectors served by the websites. The Directors
are David Hutchins, Charles Wyatt, Emma Milton, Malcolm Burne, and Fiona Kolek.

DAVID  HUTCHINS commenced his career with the Stock Exchange of Melbourne and later moved to London  where he became head of the International Desk at M&G Investment Management specialising  in the precious metals and commodities sector worldwide. He subsequently became involved in fund management with Yorkton  Securities and was a founding director of Resources Investment Trust.  He is currently chief executive of Ocean Resources Capital Holdings plc, a natural resources investment company and a partner in Newland Fund Management LLP, a boutique FSA regulated fund management business. David is a member of the FTSE Gold Mines Index Committee. 

EMMA MILTON joined Commodity Watch Ltd in November 2004 as CEO, prior to this she spent five years as a manager in the Mining and Metals Advisory team at Standard Bank in London. While there she advised on acquisitions and mergers as well as project finance. She was also responsible for managing assets sales, carrying out valuations and doing research. Before that she was technical assistant to Andrew Woollett at Reunion Mining for three years from when the company listed in London to when it was acquired for US$84 million by Anglo American. Emma graduated in Geology at Birmingham University before taking a Masters in Mineral Resources at Cardiff University.

CHARLES WYATT started his career as a brokers' analyst before moving to the Financial Times where he wrote on a number of financial columns including Lex.  He then up his own consultancy, Wyatt Associates, to act as representative for a number of Australian resource companies in London. When one of these companies acquired a controlling interest in Clogau Gold he was appointed managing director before it listed on London's Unlisted Securities Market - the precursor of the AIM market - in 1984.  He later reverted to Wyatt Associates which had an eclectic mix of farming, freelance journalism and publicity. In 1998 he founded Minesite and worked for it full time after a successful fund raising in 2000.

MALCOLM BURNE was originally a stockbroker and financial journalist with the Financial Times and later controlled and managed fund management, venture capital and investment banking companies in Australia, Hong Kong and North America. He is currently the Chairman of Ambrian Capital plc and has been the director of over 20 companies, many of which have been in the mineral resource and gold exploration fields. In addition, he was executive chairman of the Australian Bullion Company (Pty) Ltd,. Australia's leading gold dealer and member of the Sydney Futures Exchange. Malcolm is also the director of Mano River Resources Inc., Jubilee Platinum plc and several other resource companies in Australia.

FIONA WYATT graduated from Exeter University with a degree in French and Classical Studies. Her first job was with the publishing company Macmillan Press, now Palgrave Macmillan, as marketing assistant. She later moved to Virgin Books as marketing executive. In 2003 she moved to BBC Worldwide and is now with Harvard University Press where she is promotions and publicity manager for Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East.