SafeAI expands to Australia

In 2021, SafeAI announced its expansion to Australia. It has now welcomed three internationally-recognised experts in autonomous mining – Grant Moy, Ashley Richardson, and Dwayne Read – to lead the company’s rapidly-growing mining division.

“This is a natural next step for our growing business,” said Brenton Welford, Vice President of Business Development, based in Perth, Australia. “Autonomy 2.0 is a game-changer. The expansion of the Australian team will not only support our major contracts in the region, but it will also position us as a market leader for the implementation of autonomy 2.0 in the mining industry.”

Australia has one of the world’s largest mining industries, worth AUS$202 billion and accounting for more than 10% of the country’s economy. As demand for autonomy grows internationally, Australia’s booming mining industry is right on the brink of total transformation.

Grant Moy joins SafeAI as Head of Operations, backed by a 25 year technology career spanning the mining, defence, government, and financial sectors across Australia, the US, and the UK. In that time, he has held various leadership, project management, and systems engineering roles. Most recently, Moy spearheaded strategy and execution for BHP in its Research and Development division, where he led the development of Integrated Mine Autonomy Platforms and helped deliver BHP’s first OEM Autonomous Haulage systems.

Ashley Richardson joins as Solution Architect. A solution architect and development team leader, he brings 20 years of technology experience to the role. Most recently, he was a Senior IT Consultant at Anglo American, where he designed and developed a Mining Scheduling module. Before that, he was the Solution Architect, and Area Product Owner for Interoperability, for the Integrated Autonomous Mining Platform (iMAP) programme at BHP.

Dwayne Read joins as Agile Coach and Scrum Master. Throughout his 30-year-career he has held a range of technical and leadership positions across industries including mining, defence, oil and gas, and education. For the last 20 years, he has been specifically focused on the applied use of Agile techniques for systems engineering, committed to optimising product and project engineering development activities within organisations. Notably, he served as Lead Agile Coach at Rio Tinto across several technology initiatives and more recently was the Lead Agile Coach for a mine autonomy programme at BHP.

Together, these three experts bring decades of industry experience and a proven track record of accomplishment in autonomous mining. They will be responsible for advancing the company’s autonomous ecosystem, supporting its existing customers in the region, and collaborating closely with new customers and partners as SafeAI continues to grow its footprint in Australia.

“The mining industry is at the forefront of deploying autonomous and connected technologies – and right now, it’s on the cusp of an autonomous revolution,” added Bibhrajit Halder, Founder and CEO at SafeAI. “As one of the largest mining industries in the world, Australia has a tremendous opportunity to set the tone for what the future of the industry can, and should, look like. As we welcome Grant, Ash, and Dwayne, I believe we’ve found precisely the right people to lead the charge and deploy autonomy, at scale. Our customers are in excellent hands as they look to deploy autonomy to create safer, more efficient, and more profitable mining operations.”

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/finance-business/29012021/safeai-expands-to-australia/