Southern Hemisphere Mining Limited announced the appointment of a highly accomplished and experienced finance and commercial executive, Mrs. Natalie Dawson to the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Mrs. Dawson has been appointed as the lead director for the Los Pumas Battery Manganese Project. Mrs. Dawson's has broad experience both domestically & internationally across a portfolio of sectors which includes major infrastructure & engineering projects, resource sector development and extraction (Mining & Mineral, Oil & Gas,) heavy industry & manufacturing, asset management & management (capital intensive businesses) supply chain, ports, marine assets & services, trade, renewable energy, technology, defence, and NFP.

Mrs. Dawson has significant experience as a Director /CFO /Major Projects Commercial Director having had reporting lines to a Chairperson, CEO, COO & Boards in; global multinational publicly listed companies (Rio Tinto ASX50, BlueScope ASX50, Whitehaven Ltd. AXS100, Macmahon ASX100 & Clough ASX200), large scale complex JV projects (the Chevron Exon Shell Gorgon LNG JV $50 billion Project & UBS REST JV $750m Renewable Energy Project) & private companies (Nippon Steel BlueScope P/L, Port of Brisbane & JV subsidiaries of Clough & Macmahon) across Australia, SEA (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, PNG), USA, Africa & Middle East, and IPO and start-up companies. Mrs. Dawson holds a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA and is known as a strategic thinker who has strong influencing skills, sound technical skills, wealth of experience & expansive network to leverage off in: Stakeholder Management both industry and community interest groups, Finance, Change & Transformation, Commercial Management, Supply Chain Management, Risk Management, Project Management & IT /Digital Transformation. A proven track record working with Boards, Executive Teams, & Stakeholders to take the Organisational vision & strategy through to commercial reality delivering both value & opportunities for long-term sustainability.