Henk de Hoop is a mining engineer and Chartered Financial Analyst and is Chief Executive Officer of SFA (Oxford) Ltd. SFA provides bespoke, independent intelligence and consultancy services on PGM markets and a variety of other strategic metal markets. Henk has a proven track record as a top-ranked investment analyst, having analysed companies and commodities in detail in the gold, coal, base metals, diamond and PGM sectors as a stockbroking analyst for 12 years. Henk spent the next 14 years as a resources sector investment banker, getting involved in equity and debt capital raisings and M&A advisory for a wide variety of mining companies across the commodity spectrum, and he has an authoritative understanding of commodity markets, valuations and relationships across the value chain.