DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
DIRECTORS
PETER THOMAS
Non-Executive Chairman
Peter Thomas LLB, B.Juris (Non-Executive Chairman) was a practising solicitor from 1980 until June 2011 specialising in the provision of corporate and commercial advice to explorers and miners. Since the mid 1980s, he has served on the boards of various listed companies. He was the founding chairman of Sandfire Resources NL and remains the non-executive founding chairman of ASX-listed Emu NL and is a non-executive director of ASX-listed Image Resources NL of which he was the founding chairman.
BRUCE STEWART
Non-Executive Director
Bruce Stewart (Non-Executive Director) has been involved with global capital markets for 30 years, with an emphasis on mining and hard assets. His experience includes co-heading a global hard asset desk in New York City with Jefferies & Co, directorships on London listed mining companies, company reorganisation and sale, and various consultancy assignments for funds, investment banks and public and private companies.
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 and Tiger Resources before his current role as Chairman (previously Managing Director) of Yari Minerals Limited (previously Consolidated Zinc Limited). 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.
RUDOLF TIELEMAN
Company Secretary
Rudolf Tieleman (Company Secretary) is an accountant with over 25 years’ experience in public practice. He has extensive knowledge in matters relating to the operation and admistration of listed mineral exploration companies in Australia.