Our Leadership
We strive for excellence as your global partners in success
Nothing less than our best effort is acceptable for our clients. In order to best serve our clients, we firmly believe in true collaboration. We will remain with you throughout our collaboration by acting as a partner rather than an outsider. We work with you as partners from conception to execution. Our knowledge becomes your knowledge and our experience becomes your experience.
Sean Intiomale
Global Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer
Sean currently serves as the Global Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Intiomale and Company. He has over 18 years of experience in client relationship management and business operations, and his expertise primarily lies in management advisory, commodities, and mergers and acquisitions. His industry experience includes senior management positions as a product development manager at a global promotion and loyalty agency with over 71 offices worldwide, as a managing partner at a leading mining and exploration consultancy, as Head of Marketing for a multi-award-winning infrastructure exhibition and conference producer, and as a senior client consultant for a UK Department for International Development-funded company that provides policymakers, private and public sector organizations, and non-governmental organizations with research and analysis.
Sean is currently a Director at Phoenix Americapital Fund for a New York-based private equity fund with a $500 million portfolio under management, and for the last 10 years he has had his own consultancy practice, providing strategic advisory and commodity consulting to commercial and government companies, as well as mining and investment companies. Sean also runs a private equity and investment practice, Intio Emerging Ventures LLC, with a particular focus on the metals, mining, and energy sectors throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Sean holds a PGDip and is completing an MSc in Global Business Management, specializing in Banking, and Finance from Edinburgh Napier University, ENU (UK) and a Diploma in Paralegal Studies from the South African Law School.
He has been serving on the board of Intiomale and Company since October 2014.
Patrice Intiomale
Managing Partner – Metals and Mining, DRC
Patrice has spent over 53 years in various senior executive roles in the metals mining and geology sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa, spanning the entire operational chain from exploration to mine divestiture. He has also provided geology consulting services to some of the top 50 global mining companies, like BHP, Rio Tinto, Vale, Freeport-McMoRan, Anglo-American, Newmont Goldcorp, First Quantum, Ivanhoe Mines, and Gold Fields, just to name a few. He is seen as a go-to expert when it comes to all matters related to exploration and development of mineral resources, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Patrice served in higher education, government, and industry as a Professor at the University of Lubumbashi. He spent three decades as a senior executive at the state mining company, Gecamines, as Director of Geology. He served as a Technical Mining and Geology Advisor at several ministries, such as Mines and Energy, Strategic Areas of Development and Planning, and Reconstruction. He was appointed Technical Director of the Congolese Mining Cadastre (CAMI) in 2004.
Patrice is currently a Professor at the University of Kinshasa, and for the last seventeen years, he has run his own mining and exploration consultancy practice, Intio-Geoconsulting (IGECO), now a division of Intiomale and Company, providing technical, regulatory and financial advice to mining and investment companies.
Patrice graduated first in his class with a PhD in Geology from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, UCL (Belgium). He also holds a mineral fertilizer patent for Amonile Fertilizer. Historically, Patrice is the first Congolese miner to have worked in the Kipushi Mine (formerly Prince Leopold Mine), with its famous 1,200-meter-deep Shaft 5.
He has been serving on the board of Intiomale and Company since its inception in 1985.