Board of
Directors & Company Secretary
Michael Atkins (Chairman)
Mr Atkins is a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and was
a founding partner of a national Chartered Accounting
practice from 1979 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been
involved in the executive management of several publicly
listed resource companies with operations in Australia,
USA, South East Asia and Africa.
He was Managing
Director of Claremont Petroleum NL and Beach Petroleum
NL during 1990 and 1991 during their reconstruction, and
then remained as a Non Executive Director until 1995. He
was also founding Executive Chairman of Gallery Gold NL
in 1998, and remained a Non Executive Director until
2000.
He is currently Chairman of Montagu
Capital Ltd, the holding company for Montagu
Stockbrokers Pty Ltd, and Chairman of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Resources Ltd and Westgold Resources NL.
Mark Wilson (Managing Director)
Mr Wilson is a Member of the
Institution of Engineers, Australia and a Chartered
Professional Engineer with an Associateship in Civil
Engineering from Curtin University in Western Australia.
He has an extensive business background, mainly in
corporate management and project engineering.
This has
included site management of remote construction
projects, ten years of commercial construction as a
founding proprietor of a Perth based company and the
past sixteen years in executive, non-executive,
consulting and owner roles in resource focused
companies. He served as a Director of Duketon Goldfields
NL in 1995/1996 and of Cambrian Resources NL (Servicepoint
Ltd) from 1999 to 2003.
Dermot Ryan (Non-Executive Director)
Mr Ryan is a Fellow of
the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, a
Chartered Professional Geologist and a graduate from
Curtin University in Western Australia (B.App.Sc.) He
has over 30 years experience in the discovery and
successful development of gold, base metals, iron ore
and diamond deposits.
He has spent 20 years with the CRA
(Rio Tinto) group of companies, including ten years as
Chief Geologist for CRA Exploration in various parts of
Australia. He was General Manager Exploration for Great
Central Mines / Normandy Yandal Operations in the 5 year
period up to 2001. He has acted as a mineral exploration
consultant to both private and public mining and
exploration companies in Western Australia, with an
emphasis on the gold industry.
Tony Walsh (Company Secretary)
Mr Walsh is a chartered
accountant with over 20 years work experience with ASX
and publicly listed companies where he has held
positions as listings manager and company secretary and
has experience in the areas of corporate regulation and
capital raisings.
He works for a number of public
companies in the resource sector.
Mr Walsh is an Associate Member of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the
Securities Institute of Australia.
