In his role Tony leads the Geological Survey of Queensland whose purpose is to help enable industry success in discovery and development of resources and attract new investment to the resources sector. 

Tony’s focus is to the future, working to help the Queensland resources sector navigate and find opportunity in the global shifts underway across key pillars of the economy and society, in energy, industry, sustainability and security of supply. He is a keen advocate for development of new supply and value chains based on Queensland’s rich resource endowment, and to couple that with rapidly growing interest from investment and customer markets for ethical and responsible supply credentials.  

Thomas is the founding Managing Director and substantial shareholder of Vecco Group. He has over 15 years’ experience in the mining sector spanning project development, corporate finance, M&A and project approvals. 

Thomas is currently a Non-Executive Director of CopperCorp and Advisory Board member for a large family office, he was previously General Counsel for Jellinbah Group (15mt p.a. steel coal producer), Co-founder & Director of FuelCorp (divested in 2018) and Director of Roubler (divested in 2020).