Leo Howden, Managing Director and Co-founder of Descycle, has over 15 years of experience in the natural resources industry as a corporate finance practitioner and director of early stage companies. As Managing Director of advisory firm Medea Natural Resources Leo has worked on a broad range of projects covering precious and base metals and has extensive expertise in equity, debt, mergers & acquisitions and principal investing. Recently he was a non-executive director of Tesoro Gold (ASX:TSO) which discovered the El Zorro gold project in Chile. Leo was also an Associate Director for German investment bank, WestLB AG in London, working as an originator in the structured commodity finance team. Leo holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK.