Arthur Kalala Katalayi (/kəˈtɑːlɑːji/; born May 10, 1982), nicknamed "The Katalyst", is a French businessman, podcaster, consultant and entrepreneur based in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At the age of 16, he left France for the United Kingdom where he spent a year in London, before attending the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College from 1999 until 2001.
At the time it was understood that Gecamines was assessing different modes of financing[7] with the possibility to monetize some of its copper and cobalt assets via an initial public offering – Gecamines stakes in its joint-ventures thought to be valued in excess of $2 billion; which includes a $1 billion valuation in Glencore-controlled Kamoto Copper Company according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.
[7] The Democratic Republic of Congo, via Gecamines, holds 80% of the world's cobalt reserves, the price of which has soared more than 70% on the London Metal Exchange and is the hottest commodity within the global financial market as of 2017.
In a Financial Times interview, Gecamines chairman expressed his dissatisfaction with existing joint-ventures, having failed to generate excepted dividends, and that future partnerships with investors will differ from current ones.