Non-Executive Chairman
Robert James Pett BA(Hons), MA(Econ), FAICD, Minerals Economist
Mr Robert Pett is a minerals economist with over 27 years' experience in exploration and mining of gold and other metals. During that period he has overseen the successful exploration, development, operation and financing of more than ten mining projects worldwide. This includes gold and nickel mines in Australia and gold mines in East and West Africa, a number evolving from grass roots discovery, as well as numerous exploration projects. He holds a Masters Degree from Queens University Canada. Mr Pett is a member of the Board's Audit Committee and chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Chief Executive Officer
Benjamin John Bell BSc., MMET, MBA
Mr Bell is a geologist and geophysicist with 15 years in the mineral industry, including 10 years in gold exploration. Previously Mr Bell has consulted to a number of ASX listed gold explorers and has held senior exploration geologist roles with companies including Regis Resource Ltd. He has also managed the operations of UTS Geophysics and the airborne geophysical arm of the Australian Government Agency, Geoscience Australia. Mr Bell is currently a director of unlisted Australian Explorer Mikada Resources Pty Ltd and holds a Bachelor of Science, a Masters of Mineral Exploration Technologies and a Master of Business Administration.
Executive Director
Simon Trevisan B Econ, LLB (Hons), MBT
Mr Trevisan is the managing director of the Transcontinental Group of Companies and for the past 12 years and has been responsible for managing the Group's mining, oil and gas and property development projects. Mr Trevisan has been involved in the promotion and management of a number of public companies, including the establishment and listing of Mediterranean Oil & Gas plc, an AIM listed oil and gas company with production and a substantial oil discovery in Italy. He was Executive Chairman of ASX-listed gold explorer Aurex Consolidated Ltd. In that role Mr Trevisan oversaw the recapitalisation of the company, the acquisition of gold tenements at Yamarna, and a farm-out to Anglogold to fund a drilling campaign which ultimately led to a merger with TerraGold Mining Ltd. He has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law (UWA) and a Masters Degree in Business and Technology from the University of New South Wales. Mr Trevisan initially practiced as a solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson Legal Group firm, Parker and Parker, in the corporate and natural resources divisions and later acted as General Counsel to a group of public companies involved in the mining and exploration sectors. Mr Trevisan is currently an executive director of uranium explorer Regalpoint Exploration Ltd and was a founding director of Ausgold Exploration Pty Ltd. Mr Trevisan is a member of the Board's Remuneration Committee.
Non Executive Director
Christopher David Kelsall B Econ, LLB
Mr Kelsall has over 14 years' international investment banking experience, undertaking capital markets, privatisation and corporate advisory projects in a wide range of developed and emerging markets. In his most recent role as a Director, Equity Capital Markets, at Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong, Mr Kelsall supervised transactions for Chinese and other Asian issuers within the industrial and natural resources sectors. Prior to this he worked for over 10 years with the ABN AMRO Rothschild global equity capital markets joint venture, in London and Sydney. Mr Kelsall initially practised for 4 years as a corporate and commercial solicitor with firms within the Allens Arthur Robinson Legal Group. He is currently Finance Director of Mediterranean Oil & Gas plc, an AIM listed oil and gas production and exploration company, based in London. Mr Kelsall holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Western Australia, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. Mr Kelsall is chairman of the Board's Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.
Company Secretary
Ian MacKenzie Murchison B.Comm, F.C.A., Dip. Naut. Sc.
Mr Murchison has had over 25 years' experience in finance and investment, and has been a Director of both listed and unlisted companies in Australia and overseas. Mr Murchison is an investment director and founding partner of the WA based-private equity investment fund, Foundation Capital. Mr Murchison was a founding partner of the national chartered accounting firm of Sothertons.