Board Of Directors
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Warren Thorne
Managing Director
Mr Thorne is a geologist with over 20 years’ experience mainly associated with gold, iron ore, copper and manganese within Western Australia, Queensland, Brazil and West Africa.
Mr Thorne has extensive experience in all stages of regional and near-mine exploration project management, from conceptual targeting and ground acquisition through to resource definition drilling programs and open cut mining geology.
Mr Thorne has held senior exploration and project management roles with a variety of major Australian and international companies including Mineral Resources Ltd, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Hancock Prospecting
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Gary Lyons
Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Lyons is a successful and well respected Perth based businessman; being a shareholder and the Managing Director of the Heiniger Group’s Australasian operations for the last 32 years.
Mr Lyons is also Chairman of GWR, and is a member of both the GWR Audit & Risk Management Committee and the GWR Remuneration Committee. Mr Lyons is also Chairman of ASX listed Tungsten Mining NL and E-Metals Limited.
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Teck Siong Wong
Non-Executive Director
Mr Wong is a Malaysian based businessman with considerable international experience having worked in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and now in Malaysia and Indonesia after graduating with a Bachelor of Business degree from Swinburne University (Melbourne).
Mr Wong is involved with the iron ore mining industry in Indonesia. He was previously involved in the sales and export of steel related products and was a director of a retail chain business in the United Kingdom, previously known as JW Carpenter Ltd. Mr Wong was working in the OEM plastic manufacturing industry in Hong Kong prior to taking up a position in the steel industry in Malaysia.
Mr Wong is an alternate director of GWR and is also a non-executed director of ASX listed Tungsten Mining NL and E Metals Limited.
Company Secretary
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Jess Lyons
Company Secretary
Jess is a Chartered Secretary, a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia with majors in Investment Finance, Corporate Finance, and Marketing.
Ms Lyons is also a Director of Nexia Perth and has a number of years’ experience as a Company Secretary with ASX listed companies in the resources and technology sectors.
Jess also has 15 years of experience working in the stockbroking and banking industries and has held various positions with Macquarie Bank, UBS Investment Bank (London), and more recently Patersons Securities.