Artem Volynets

   

Founder, Chairman and CEO
ACG Metals Limited

BIO

Mr. Volynets is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ACG Metals Ltd. He has 27+ years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and senior corporate management roles. He has led private and public transactions worth more than $30 billion and managed leading businesses in the metals and mining industry.

Mr. Volynets listed ACG Acquisition Company as a SPAC on LSE in 2022 with a strategy to consolidate the critical metals industry. The company completed the first $300m transaction in Türkiye in 2024, acquiring the producing Copper / Gold Gediktepe mine and was renamed ACG Metals Ltd. ACG’s near-term goal is to build a 200-300 ktpa copper producer via a series of roll-up transactions.

Mr. Volynets has previously designed and implemented a similar roll-up strategy in aluminium, having led several high-profile transactions that created UC Rusal, which he listed in Hong Kong in 2010 at a pre-money valuation of over $20 billion.

Mr. Volynets’ former roles include:

  • CEO of Chaarat Gold

  • CEO of En+ Group

  • Head of strategy and Board director of UC Rusal

  • Independent non-executive director at Norilsk Nickel

  • Chairman of International Aluminium Institute

He started his career as a strategy consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and London. He obtained an MBA from Georgetown University in 1997 (in a joint program with INSEAD in France) and a BA in E.

Who will Finance the next generation of Europe's critical minerals supply and what are the implications?

Much of the new critical minerals supply over the next 5 years is expected to come from existing mine expansion and brownfield development. Incentivizing new greenfield capacity is an important issue in meeting Europe's critical minerals demand.

Mining companies will need to rapidly advance their business models on all fronts—from increasing critical mineral production through the optimization and expansion of existing operations, to a renewed commitment to greenfield exploration and development, and M&A.

The involvement of new governments, investing in frontier markets, upstream integration, and a preference for using balance sheet strength for M&A over new project delivery are just a handful of the challenges to be faced.

Mr. Volynets will discuss these issues within the context of meeting Europe's demand for critical minerals through innovative financing and strategic partnerships across the value chain.