Samantha Tough

Appointed: 24 July 2007

Position: Non-Executive Chairman

Samantha Tough has a unique mix of leadership, commercial and legal skills and experience. Samantha holds positions as Chairman of Structerre Pty Ltd, the largest engineering service company in Western Australia; Non-Executive Director of Advanced Well Technologies Pty Ltd; and a member of Curtin University of Technology's Investment Committee.

Samantha has senior executive management experience in oil and gas, including General Manager, North West Shelf for Woodside Energy Ltd; and Director of Strategy for Hardman Resources Ltd. She has worked in the venture capital industry for a number of years and is currently involved in sport, in both a coaching and leadership capacity. Samantha has a law degree from University of Western Australia and is entitled to fellow status from the AICD.

Glenn Jardine

Appointed: 4 October 2010

Position: Managing Director

Glenn Jardine is a mining engineer with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from the University of Queensland. Glenn's senior management experience commenced as Project Manager and General Manager of the Henty gold mine in Tasmania for Goldfields Ltd. He joined LionOre Australia from Goldfields in 1998. While with LionOre Australia his responsibilities included Project Manager of the Emily Ann and Maggie Hays nickel mines, General Manager - New Business, Chief Operating Officer and then Managing Director of LionOre Australia in 2006. During this period LionOre's production in Australia grew from a zero base to having 3 nickel production centres (Lake Johnston, Black Swan, Waterloo) and one gold mine (Thunderbox). Prior to joining Southern Cross Goldfields, he worked with Apex Minerals until mid 2009 as a consultant and then Operations Director to successfully re-commission the Wiluna gold mine and plant.

Graham Brock

Appointed: 6 October 2009

Position: Non-Executive Director

Graham Brock is a metallurgist and has worked in the minerals industry for over 40 years on a diverse mix of commodities including gold, nickel, tin, copper, zinc, silver, magnesite and graphite. In the last 25 years he has worked in the field of project development from conceptual studies through to construction and has successfully evaluated, built and commissioned several gold, nickel and tin projects including Wheal Jane tin, Mt Keith nickel, Black Swan nickel, Golden Crown gold, Waihi gold, Wirralie gold, Salsigne gold, Lake Johnson nickel and Westonia gold. Graham graduated from the Royal School of Mines (RSM), London in 1968 with a BSc Eng and Associateship of RSM. He is a Fellow of the AusIMM and has worked in Australia, UK, Fiji and USA. He is has held positions as held positions as General Manager Projects for LionOre; Group Metallurgist and Director Technology for MPI Mines and Group Metallurgist for Australian Consolidated Minerals.

John Rowe

Appointed: 14 April 2010

Position: Non-Executive Director

John Rowe holds a BSc (Hons) in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University and has had a distinguished career over a 40 year period in the mining industry. John is the principal of John Rowe and Associates which provides geological and business development advice to the mining industry and is a non-executive Director of Panoramic Resources Ltd and Catalpa Resources Limited. During his period as Chairman of Catalpa Resources in 2008/2009, Catalpa finalised the bankable feasibility study and completed debt and equity funding for the 100,000oz/year Edna May Gold Project at Westonia.

Prior to establishing John Rowe and Associates in 2006, John spent 13 years with MPI Mines / Lion Ore Australia in various group executive roles including Executive General Manager Mineral Inventory and Group Executive - Acquisitions & Resource Management. John's role at MPI Mines included responsibility for all geological activities including exploration, mine geology and project evaluation. This included the evaluation, development and production of the high grade Silver Swan nickel sulphide project as well as the 100,000oz/year Stawell Gold Mine in Victoria. He had a short period with R&I Gold Bank in the technical division before joining MPI Mines in 1993.

John started his career with Metals Exploration as a mine geologist at the Nepean Nickel Mine in the early 1970's. For the next six years he was a senior geologist with Consolidated Goldfields before joining Agnew Mining as Chief Geologist of the Agnew Nickel Mine. He then returned to Metals Exploration as Chief Geologist at North Kalgurli Mines before taking on various senior executive roles with Metals Exploration / Bond Gold Australia involved with the establishment of open pit mining on the Golden Mile Kalgoorlie and played a significant role in the corporate and operational establishment of KCGM.