Chris Torrey - Chairman
BSc, MSc, MAIG, FSEG
Chris Torrey is a geoscientist. Since 2006 he has been the Principal Geologist for a Sydney-based consultancy providing geological and exploration services to exploration companies in Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. He is currently the Chief Consulting Geologist to Golden Minerals Company, a North American silver explorer. Mr Torrey has 30 years experience in global mineral exploration and has held senior and management positions in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Indonesia and Panama. His exploration experience encompasses circum-Pacific porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au, massive sulphides (VMS) in Tasmania and Northern Australia and Andean silver.
He worked in for large mining companies Noranda and Cyprus/Amax before joining Golden Cross Resources as Exploration Manager in 1996. He has been an integral part of the Golden Cross exploration team and played important roles in corporate financing and governance. He is a past Councilor and Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and a Registered Professional Geologist (RPGeo).
Mr Torrey has a Bachelor of Science from Canterbury University in New Zealand and a Masters degree in Economic Geology from James Cook University in North Queensland.
Member of the Remuneration and Audit Committees.
Kim Stanton-Cook – Managing Director
BA(Geology & Geophyics), MAIG, GSA, ASEG
Geologist with over 30 years’ experience in the mining exploration industry in senior management roles with a number of major companies, including Getty Oil, Delta Gold NL (where he was involved in the discovery and proving up of the Kanowna Belle Gold Mine), the Otter Gold Mines Group, including Allstate Explorations NL, where he was involved in exploration in the Tanami region in the Northern Territory, Union Hill in NZ and played a significant role in the redevelopment of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania. Kim also founded Millennium Minerals NL, which holds exploration interests in NSW, WA and Queensland and is now a subsidiary of CopperCo Ltd.
David Timms – Non-Executive Director
BSc (Hons), PEng, FAIG, FAusIMM
Manager, Amoco Minerals Australia from 1972 to 1985. Exploration Manager, Cyprus Gold from 1985 to 1990. Managed teams that discovered 30 mineable deposits including Red Dome, Gidgee, Junction Reefs, Selwyn-Starra, Moline, Mt McLure, Gold Ridge (Solomon Islands) and Dinkidi (Philippines). Retired as managing Director 28 February 2006.
Member of Remuneration Committee.
Xiaoming Li – Non-Executive Director
BA(Comm), MBA
Over 20 years of experience in mining investment and operation, and has successfully invested a number of significant iron, copper, zinc and lead mines in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Chile, Philippines, Cambodia and China. Chairman of China United Mining Investment Co., Ltd (CUMIC), Qinglong (International) Group, and Hong Kong Lungming Investment Ltd., which is in its IPO process on the Hong Kong Exchange.
Suzanne Qiu – Non-Executive Director
A Director of HQ Mining Resources Holdings Pty Ltd. A marketing and tour management professional with seven year’s experience in the tourism industry with particular emphasis on Chinese Government delegations. Have introduced over 100 groups of Chinese delegates to various industries and councils across Australia.
Member of Remuneration and Audit Committees.
Jingmin Qian – Non-Executive Director
BEc, MBA, CFA, GAICD
Ms. Qian is a strategy, investment and project management professional with more than 15 years of experience in strategy, planning, research, mergers and acquisitions, and project management across Australia, Asia, Middle East and North America. She has previously held management roles in Leighton Holdings, Boral Ltd and L.E.K. Consulting in Australia with a focus on the building, construction and mining industries. Before her career in Australia, Ms. Qian worked for the Ministry of Commerce on international development programs with projects in over 20 provinces in China.
Ms. Qian is a board director and chair of the membership committee at CFA Society of Sydney. Ms. Qian is also a graduate member of Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Simon Lennon – Company Secretary, Legal Counsel and CFO
BSc, LLB, MCom, MBA, ACIS
Simon is a corporate lawyer with university degrees in science/law, economics, and business administration. He was legal counsel and then also company secretary for the shipping division of a multinational transport company and an Australian Stock Exchange listed multinational shipping company. He was legal general manager for an Australasian gold mining company and company secretary of its Australian Stock Exchange listed subsidiary. He was also legal counsel and company secretary for a major manufacturing company before becoming interim insurance manager for a multinational funds management company.