Two years ago Alex Molyneux was sitting at Citi’s Hong Kong Mining and Metals M&A desk. He was there trying to find a new chief executive for one of his client’s subsidiaries in Mongolia — Asia’s new blockbuster mining province. Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines was looking for someone to take charge of its nascent coalminer SouthGobi Resources and move it from startup to fully fledged operator. After the group knocked back three or four suggestions, in March last year the Monash University-educated investment banker took the job himself. “I had always wanted to move to the client side,” he says, using impeccable banker parlance. “But I thought it would be another five years or so.” To read the full article, click here: Aussies at the fore of Mongolian charge