Experience

MintMatrix is led by Dr. Prabir De.

Dr. Prabir De is highly respected by his global minting industry peers for the breadth and depth of his minting knowledge, experience and expertise acquired over a 30 year period.

In 1987, Dr. De brought his engineering degree and doctorate in management qualifications as well as production knowledge from the defence industry to the Royal Australian Mint (RAM). His technical background proved invaluable in negotiating through successive challenging management roles from Production manager to Operations Director to Chief Operating Officer. Finally, as the Business Development Director, Dr. De refined and perfected his marketing expertise, increasing RAM revenue from negligible in 2011 to over 50% of the total RAM revenue in 2016.

During this time Dr De has developed skills across the entire minting industry including through mint modernising projects, coinage reform for six countries, introduction of coin security features, joint venture numismatic projects, advising on Business Continuity and advising Central Bank Governors on coin policy. Over the years, he was instrumental in winning over 25 prestigious coin, engineering excellence and export awards for RAM. Dr. De has mentored senior personnel from several official mints.

In 2002 Dr. De was elected as Chair of the International Mint Directors Conference Technical Committee (MDC-TC), a role which he held for 14 years, being elected unopposed by his peers on a biannual basis. During his tenure he was instrumental in bringing together technical personnel from over 30 mints and minting industries to discuss creative ideas, conduct cutting edge research, develop innovative products and write key guidelines for the minting industry. On his retirement from this committee, Dr. De was made a lifetime Honorary President of the MDC-TC.

Since 2015, he has been a regular guest speaker at the Coin Management Training Program organised by the Royal Mint.

For his contribution in the Minting Industry, Dr. De was awarded the World Money Fair’s inaugural ‘Innovation’ award in February 2017

Testimonials

I have known Dr. Prabir De for over 20 years and have watched him grow from a highly qualified and motivated young man in to a professional businessman. Under Dr De’s management Royal Australian Mint and PAMP businesses increased more than 500% over the last 5 years (2012-2017). I believe that Dr De’s experience will be of great value to anyone using his services.

Mehdi Barkhordar

Managing Director, PAMP SA, Switzerland

Dr. Prabir De’s strategic skills are admirable. He successfully delivered the 26th Mint Director’s Conference in 2010 and used this achievement as the impetus for the rapid growth of the Royal Australian Mint’s international revenue. His vision also assisted the Mint to win the prestigious ACT Government Export Award in the Government Solution category for five successive years (2013- 2017).

Robyn Hendry

CEO, Canberra Business Chamber, Australia

As Chairman of the Mint Directors Technical Committee, Dr. Prabir De has carried out numerous innovative projects and played a major role in driving multinational cooperation. In recognition of his decades of support and leadership, World Money Fair bestowed him with the inaugural Innovation award in January 2017.

Albert M. Beck

Honorary President, World Money Fair

Dr. Prabir De assisted the Central Bank of Solomon Islands and replace Solomon Islands coins that had been circulating for 35 years with a new series of coins in 2012. He also has been instrumental in positioning our numismatic coin program in the international arena.

Denton Rarawa

Governor, Central Bank of Solomon Islands

After 14 Years as the Chair of Mint Director’s Technical Committee, Dr. Prabir De mentored me to succeed in this highly responsible position. His technical advice, based on his deep, global and long-term industry know-how, is invaluable to me to facilitate technical collaborative research involving international mints, minting industries and research organisations.

Dr. Manfred Matzinger-Leopold

Chair of Mint Director’s Technical Committee , Executive Director, Austrian Mint

Dr. Prabir De has successfully implemented a coinage reform program for the Central Bank of Samoa (CBS) in 2011 to replace our old series of coins. He now pursues opportunities for the sale of Samoan circulating, commemorative and bullion coins on behalf of CBS. Prabir has been our adviser in this area since 2012.

Maiava Atalina Ainuu-Enari

Governor, Central Bank of Samoa

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