Neil Ayres

Tiberius Asset Management AG (TAM) is an independent Swiss asset management firm which was founded in 2005 by Markus Mezger and Christoph Eibl and specializes in the asset management of investments in the commodity market sector. Located in Zug, with representative offices in Stuttgart and London, the firm offers a range of products including pension funds and mutual commodity futures funds in addition to European and international bond funds. In 2007, they sold their shareholding stake in Tiberius Exploration AG to the group's commodity equities trading management team. The Commodity Alpha OP is their flagship fund.

Earth Resource Investments AG (ERI) is the fund management subsidiary of Earth Resource Investment Group (ERIG), a group of Swiss niche investment fund advisory firms which was established in 2006 by Dr. Joachim Berlenbach. In 2008 ERIG entered into a joint venture with MRI Resources AG and developed a Luxembourg-based SICAV SIV fund structure with Universal-Investment GmbH to invest directly in companies in the resources sector. ERI is the fund advisor to the Earth funds and has a partnership with Universal-Investment as fund administrator.