Our Board

Directors

Ian Jeffrey Gandel

Non-Executive Chairman

LLB, BEc, FCPA, FAICD

Appointed Director 24 July 2006 and Chairman 1 September 2017.

Mr Gandel is a successful Melbourne-based businessman with extensive experience in retail management and retail property. He has been a director of the Gandel Retail Trust and has had an involvement in the construction and leasing of Gandel shopping centres. He has previously been involved in the Priceline retail chain and the CEO chain of serviced offices. Mr Gandel has been an investor in the mining industry since 1994. Mr Gandel is currently a substantial holder in a number of publicly listed Australian companies and, through his private investment vehicles, now holds and explores tenements in his own right in Western Australia and South Australia. Mr Gandel is currently an executive chairman of Alliance Resources Pty Ltd (appointed as a director on 15 October 2003 and in June 2016 was appointed non-executive chairman).

Mr Gandel is currently non-executive chairman of Australian Strategic Materials Limited.

Mr Gandel is a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Nic Earner

Managing Director

BEng (hons)

Appointed Director and Managing Director 1 September 2017.

Mr Earner is a chemical engineer and a graduate of the University of Queensland with 30 years’ experience in technical and operational optimisation and management and has held a number of executive roles in mining and processing. Mr Earner joined Alkane Resources Ltd as Chief Operations Officer in August 2013 with responsibility for the safe and efficient management of the company’s operations at Tomingley Gold Operations (Tomingley) and Dubbo (Dubbo Project). During Mr Earner’s time as Managing Director, the Dubbo Project has been de-merged into the separately listed Australian Strategic Materials, Tomingley has had its mine life extension approved by the NSW government, and the Boda-Kaiser Project has gone from discovery to scoping study.

Mr Earner is currently a non-executive director of Australian Strategic Materials Ltd (appointed 1 September 2017).

Mr Earner is a member of the Risk Committee.

Ian Chalmers

Technical Director

MSc, FAusIMM, FAIG, FIMMM, FSEG, MSGA, MGSA, FAICD

Appointed Director 10 June 1986, appointed Managing Director 5 October 2006, and appointed as Technical Director on 1 September 2017.

Mr Chalmers is a geologist and graduate of the Western Australia Institute of Technology (Curtin University) and has a Master of Science degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He has worked in the mining and exploration industry for over 50 years, during which time he has had experience in all facets of exploration and mining through feasibility and development to the production phase.

Mr Chalmers was Technical Director of Alkane until his appointment as Managing Director in 2006, overseeing the group’s minerals exploration efforts. During his time as chief executive he steered Alkane through the discovery, feasibility, construction and development of the now fully operational Tomingley Gold Operations; the discovery and ultimate sale of the McPhillamys gold deposit; the evaluation, recovery flowsheet, marketing and feasibility for the Dubbo Project (rare metals and rare earths), advancing the project towards development; and the recent discovery of the gold deposits immediately south of Tomingley and the porphyry gold-copper discovery at Boda.

Mr Chalmers is a member of the Nomination Committee.

Mr Chalmers is a director of the Toronto-based Critical Minerals Institute.

Anthony Lethlean

Non-Executive Director

BAppSc (Geology)

Appointed Director 30 May 2002.

Mr Lethlean is a geologist with over ten years’ mining experience, including four years underground on the Golden Mile in Kalgoorlie. In later years, he has worked as a resource analyst with various stockbrokers and investment banks including CIBC World Markets. He was a founding director of Helmsec Global Capital Limited, which seeded, listed and funded a number of companies in a range of commodities. He retired from the Helmsec group in 2014. He is also a director of corporate advisory Rawson Lewis.

Mr Lethlean is the senior independent Director, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committees, and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Gavin Smith

Non-Executive Director

B.Com., MBA, MAICD

Appointed Director 29 November 2017.

Mr Smith is an accomplished senior executive and non-executive director within multinational business environments. He has more than 35 years’ experience in Information Technology, Business Development, and General Management in a wide range of industries and sectors. Mr Smith has worked for the Bosch group for the past 34 years in Australia and Germany and is current chair and president of Robert Bosch Australia. In this role, Mr Smith has led the restructuring and transformation of the local Bosch subsidiary.

Concurrent with this role, he is a non-executive director of the various Bosch subsidiaries, joint ventures, and direct investment companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Mr Smith is currently a non-executive director of Australian Strategic Materials Ltd.

Mr Smith is Chair of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees and a member of the Audit and Risk Committees.

Joint Company Secretaries

Dennis Wilkins

Joint Company Secretary

B.Bus, ACIS, AICD

Since 1994 Mr Wilkins has been a director of, and involved in the executive management of, several publicly listed resource companies with operations in Australia, PNG, Scandinavia and Africa. From 1995 to 2001 he was the Finance Director of Lynas Corporation Ltd during the period when the Mt Weld Rare Earths project was acquired by the group. He was also founding director and advisor to Atlas Iron Limited at the time of Atlas’ initial public offering in 2006.

Since July 2001 Mr Wilkins has been running DWCorporate Pty Ltd where he advises on the formation of,
and capital raising for, emerging companies in the Australian resources sector.

Julia Beckett