Kenneth De Graaf

Global Product Line Manager, FLSmidth

Kenneth de Graaf is FLSmidth Global Product Line Manager, Downstream Gold Recovery Products.  Ken is a chemical/metallurgical engineer with over 20 years of experience in the global precious metals industry.  He has held various senior technical and managerial roles both in industry and in mineral project develop.  Ken has over 3 years with FLSmidth, and prior to his current role was Sales Manager, North America, for Mining SPA (Sampling, Preparation and Analysis) which included key account management of commercial mineral laboratory customers and being an integral part of the SPA team in 2020 that sold largest integrated mine-site Automated Sample Preparation Laboratory in the Americas with fully automated sample preparation, fire assay and wet chemical analyses.  In his current FLSmidth role, he is also responsible for contributing his extensive experience to support  R&D and initiatives to drive digitalization and process optimization.  Ken has a M.A.Sc (Metallurgical Eng.) from University of British Columbia and B.A.Sc. (Chemical Eng.) from Queen’s University (Kingston).