DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
DIRECTORS
RICHIE YANG
Non-Executive Director
Richie Yang is Managing Director of Sydney/Hong Kong based Vs Capital Group, a corporate finance advisory firm and family office working primarily in the mining resources sector since 2009. Richie has more than 19 years of corporate finance experience working with public and private companies, assisting them with business development and project financing. Richie also held successful CEO and Executive Director roles with numerous ASX listed resource companies, he currently sits on the board of Theta Gold Mines Limited (ASX: TGM), a gold mine developer in South Africa managing over 6Moz of gold resource. Richie holds a Bachelor degree from the University of New South Wales majoring in business economics and finance.
DANIEL RAIHANI
Non-Executive Director
Accountant and Tax Professional with a wide range of experience at the Executive level in for-profit and not-for-profits.
Currently Mr Raihani has controlling equity positions and directorships in companies involved in real estate sales and management, property development, manufacturing, automotive exports, and tax consultancy, with offices in the UAE, Sydney & Hong Kong.
BRAD MARWOOD
Non-Executive Director
Brad Marwood (Non-Executive Director) is a mining engineer and a highly experienced resources industry executive with more than 30 years of experience. He was instrumental in bringing into production the copper mine at Kipoi (DRC); completing development of the Svartliden gold mine (Sweden); and has managed numerous Feasibility Studies and advanced stage resource projects in Australia, Africa, North America and Asia.
He has worked in senior roles for groups such as Normandy, Dragon Mining, Lafayette, Moto Goldmines, Perseus Mining, Tiger Resources and Rokeby Resources. Mr Marwood’s involvement has seen growth in several companies with a significant increase in their market capitalisation and by protecting investments through restarting suspended mine projects.
ROLAND BARTSCH
Chief Executive Officer
Roland Bartsch MSc. BSc (Hons) (Chief Executive Officer) is a geoscientist/mining executive with more than 30 years’ experience in mining, project development, resource evaluation and mineral exploration.
Having started his career in the mining industry with Western Mining he has since worked with a diverse group of organisations such as major mining companies, international consulting groups, and junior miners working on copper-gold, base metal, gold and iron ore projects extending from Greenland, the Americas, Africa, Indonesia, Solomon Islands and Australia. Recent roles have been at an executive level as Country Manager Australia, General Manager Geology, Vice President Technical/Geology, Technical Director and Manager Geology, Mining and Exploration.
GABRIEL CHIAPPINI
Company Secretary
Mr Chiappini has had held several positions as CEO, Non-Executive Director and Governance roles with various ASX companies.