Barbara Sotowicz

Minviro is a global leader in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) services, offering software, consultancy, research, and database solutions to companies driving the energy transition. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Robert Pell during his PhD, Minviro helps companies like Tesla, Rio Tinto, Stellantis, Freyr, and CMOC quantify and reduce their environmental impact through actionable insights and sustainable strategies. Our team—comprising top scientists, geologists, engineers, and sustainability experts—addresses critical challenges across mining, processing, and other key sectors. With deep expertise in areas facing regulatory pressures, such as battery data and EV/ESS applications, we support clients in navigating evolving frameworks like the EU Battery Regulations. Building on this foundation, we developed XYCLE, an advanced LCA software platform designed for transparency, usability, and efficiency. Together, Minviro’s consultancy services and XYCLE software are transforming sustainability practices and enabling businesses to embed sustainability analytics into their operations. With offices in London, Perth, and Shanghai, Minviro is turning complex data into impactful decisions—delivering deeper insights, smarter strategies, and measurable progress toward a greener future.

Xilva offers due diligence on forest, nature-based solutions and natural capital investments using a standardized, data-driven framework and methodology deliberately tailored to fulfill the due diligence requirements of investors. On a mission to use due diligence as an enabler for funding nature, we bridge funders and projects - identifying risks to be mitigated and resolved, and creating a platform for both sides to understand, engage and align milestones. The result: funders receive the confidence to deploy funds, and projects improve to become investable. The approach has been applied to hundreds of projects and trusted by leading NbS investors worldwide. Our solutions: + Xilva GRADE - https://www.xilva.global/grade + Xilva SCREEN - https://www.xilva.global/screen

Mutinex is the end to end market mix solution that helps marketers, media leads, agencies, analytics and finance teams identify and optimise the different factors that drive sustainable business growth.

Cascadia Seaweed, founded in 2019, is a vertically integrated AgTech Company dedicated to addressing climate change and food security. We cultivate local species of seaweed on low-impact ocean farms in partnership with coastal First Nations. We then harvest that seaweed and manufacture agricultural products for land-based farmers that increase yields and reduce emissions. As a certified B Corp and registered Benefit Company in British Columbia, we are committed to building a profitable and scalable business that our team members, shareholders, and business partners can take pride in.

Skarn Associates goal is to support the mining and metals sectors in reducing their environmental impacts, by providing actionable strategic insight into energy use, GHG emissions, decarbonisation economics and water use. Based on our detailed asset level analysis of over 1,700 assets, development projects, smelters and refineries globally, including forecasts to 2030, we deliver deep insight into the interplay between mineral economics and environmental impacts. Our most recent launch, the Skarn Decarbonisation Quarterly, tracks global trends in decarbonising supply chains for key energy transition metals. Skarn Water provides unique benchmarking of water stewardship for 451 gold, 228 copper 387 silver and 100 zinc producing mines respectively, with development underway on nickel. As climate changes, water stewardship and increasing risk from drought and floods are becoming ever more significant. Our water research includes climate forecasts to 2030. Leading edge data, analysis, forecasts and consultancy from Skarn enable our clients to benchmark energy and emissions performance and: - analyse the proposed decarbonisation pathways of different companies, highlighting risks, timelines and costs - assess technological prospects such as fleet electrification and Power Purchase Agreements - understand the policies and standards which are driving change. Skarn’s senior team has immense experience, working for leading mining information businesses such as Wood Mackenzie, CRU, S&P Global and Thompson Reuters Refinitiv. Key personnel include Mark Fellows (Co-founder & CEO), Nick Morgan (Chairman), Sophie Chung (Director Strategy & Development), Raymond Philippe (Skarn Water), Rob Garlick (CFO), Martin Hollands (Director, Environment) and Kate Cummings (CCO). Clients include some of the largest global mining companies, Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, Rio Tinto, Vale, Freeport and Teck, plus major financial institutions.

Metal Price Analytics Ltd’s (MPA’s) current focus is on the chrome concentrates price model that it has developed in early 2023 for SwapX Holdings (Pty) Ltd, shortly to be made available on license by SwapX. Chrome concentrates prices show strong inverse correlation with port stocks. Because of the strong causal link between stock levels and the market’s supply-demand balance, this will allow producers, traders and users both to quantify any short-term (current) price anomalies and to forecast quantitatively rather than just qualitatively the expected impact on prices of predicted surpluses or deficits. MPA’s Adam Sotowicz is undertaking the modelling, in discussion with SwapX’s Quintin Kieser, with insights also from Bloomsbury Minerals Economics’ Peter Hollands. Adam has experience of modelling prices over time frames from intra-day to several years ahead. MPA also has considerable background in modelling LME cash and forward prices for copper, nickel, aluminium, zinc, lead and tin. Adam would be happy to extend MPA’s modelling work into other raw materials: SHFE metals contracts, exchange traded rubber and any non-exchange traded ores and metals that have Chinese port stock series. The modelling work is done mainly in R or Python using regression splines along with other modelling techniques, such as time series analysis, glmnet, data visualisation and graphical analysis.

Roskill was acquired in June 2021 by Wood Mackenzie, the leading global research, consultancy, and data analytics business powering the natural resources industry. Wood Mackenzie is the global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources. Driven by data. Powered by people. In the middle of an energy revolution, businesses and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience in natural resources. Today, our team of over 2,000 experts operate across 30 global locations, inspiring customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make bold decisions when it matters most. Wood Mackenzie is the global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources. Driven by data. Powered by people. In the middle of an energy revolution, businesses and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience in natural resources. Today, our team of over 2,000 experts operate across 30 global locations, inspiring customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make bold decisions when it matters most.

Minviro is a global leader in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) services, offering software, consultancy, research, and database solutions to companies driving the energy transition. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Robert Pell during his PhD, Minviro helps companies like Tesla, Rio Tinto, Stellantis, Freyr, and CMOC quantify and reduce their environmental impact through actionable insights and sustainable strategies. Our team—comprising top scientists, geologists, engineers, and sustainability experts—addresses critical challenges across mining, processing, and other key sectors. With deep expertise in areas facing regulatory pressures, such as battery data and EV/ESS applications, we support clients in navigating evolving frameworks like the EU Battery Regulations. Building on this foundation, we developed XYCLE, an advanced LCA software platform designed for transparency, usability, and efficiency. Together, Minviro’s consultancy services and XYCLE software are transforming sustainability practices and enabling businesses to embed sustainability analytics into their operations. With offices in London, Perth, and Shanghai, Minviro is turning complex data into impactful decisions—delivering deeper insights, smarter strategies, and measurable progress toward a greener future.

Xilva offers due diligence on forest, nature-based solutions and natural capital investments using a standardized, data-driven framework and methodology deliberately tailored to fulfill the due diligence requirements of investors. On a mission to use due diligence as an enabler for funding nature, we bridge funders and projects - identifying risks to be mitigated and resolved, and creating a platform for both sides to understand, engage and align milestones. The result: funders receive the confidence to deploy funds, and projects improve to become investable. The approach has been applied to hundreds of projects and trusted by leading NbS investors worldwide. Our solutions: + Xilva GRADE - https://www.xilva.global/grade + Xilva SCREEN - https://www.xilva.global/screen

Mutinex is the end to end market mix solution that helps marketers, media leads, agencies, analytics and finance teams identify and optimise the different factors that drive sustainable business growth.

Bloomsbury Information Capital (BIC) is a recently established corporate investor in early-stage AI, information and data businesses. It works in close cooperation with other Group companies: Bloomsbury Natural Capital and Bloomsbury Minerals Economics, and with Associate company Metal Price Analytics. Peter Hollands is Chairman, Simon Benney is Managing Director and Barbara Sotowicz Non-Executive Director. Investments will normally be made at Seed Capital and Series A stages. BIC will generally take 3%-5% of shares in an initial investment, which might be raised to 10%-25% in subsequent funding rounds. Projects with pre-money values between £2.5M-£15M are the main targets. BIC will focus on AI, information and data businesses mainly in mining and metals, energy transition, decarbonisation, forestry and regenerative agriculture, but will also be involved in other sectors, as opportunities arise. BIC’s first two investments are minority shareholdings in Minviro, headquarted in the UK and offices in Australia and China and Mutinex, headquartered in Australia with an office in the US. Minviro provides software and consultancy that helps minimise the environmental footprint of mines and metallurgical facilities. Mutinex provides leading edge, AI based software to measure return on investment in marketing and propose actions to optimise returns from the marketing mix. Elsewhere in the Group, parent company Bloomsbury Minerals Economics is invested in Skarn Associates of the UK (research on mine-by-mine ESG), while sister company Bloomsbury Natural Capital has investments in Xilva of Switzerland (forestry FinTech) and Cascadia Seaweed of British Columbia (seaweed cultivation and processing to agricultural bio-stimulants and methane-reducing cattle feed). Associate company Metal Price Analytics is a software (SaaS) company in price modelling for metals and minerals.

Cascadia Seaweed, founded in 2019, is a vertically integrated AgTech Company dedicated to addressing climate change and food security. We cultivate local species of seaweed on low-impact ocean farms in partnership with coastal First Nations. We then harvest that seaweed and manufacture agricultural products for land-based farmers that increase yields and reduce emissions. As a certified B Corp and registered Benefit Company in British Columbia, we are committed to building a profitable and scalable business that our team members, shareholders, and business partners can take pride in.