M. Hanuma Prasad has extensive experience in Exploration and Mining industry in India and overseas.  In his long career, spanning over 27 years, Hanuma has worked in various capacities in Exploration and Corporate Management. As an Exploration Manager, he has led several greenfield and brown field exploration projects for gold, base metals, nickel-PGE, mineral sands and iron ore.  He has held key management positions, including Chief Executive Officer, in which he is involved in fundraising and  corporate management.

Hanuma started his career with Geological Survey of India in 1994 where he carried out geological mapping and exploration for gold. His work in Central India has helped in bringing out new regional geological concepts. Hanuma joined Australian Indian Resources Group (AIR) in the year 2001 and continued to work with the Group for the last 20 years. As an Exploration Manager, he has explored Archaean and Proterozoic terrains of central India for gold, base metals, Ni-Cu-PGE and made significant discoveries.   He was actively involved in the exploration research on generating new gold and Ni-PGE targets in India. During this period he has also built exploration teams and explored various parts of Africa for other mineral resource companies which have consultancy arrangements with AIR Group.

Since 2008 Hanuma was closely associated with the Business Development team of the AIR Group, during which he carried out due diligence of several precious commodity projects in India, Africa and South America. He has been associated with fund raising into AIR and Geomysore Services (India) Pvt Ltd (GMSI). Hanuma has co-managed NI 43-101 compliant feasibility study on Jonnagiri Gold Project along with a team of international and Indian experts.  He is currently part of the senior management of GMSI playing a key role in the development of Jonnagiri gold mining project.

Hanuma has worked widely in Africa, SE Asia, South America  and CIS countries as a part of due diligence team to advice various business houses in acquiring mineral projects in these countries. He has been instrumental in setting up gold and other mineral exploration and mining companies in Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Zambia, Malawi and Kyrgyzstan.

He is on the board of many mineral resource companies, including AIM – listed LionsGold Limited which has got interests in mineral prospects in India.  He is a member of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusImm). Hanuma has Doctorate in Geology and published number of papers in peer reviewed journals. He is a prolific speaker in national and International conferences