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.
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Patrick Burke
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Burke has extensive legal and corporate advisory experience and over the last 15 years has acted as a Director for a large number of ASX, NASDAQ and AIM listed companies.
Mr Burke’s legal expertise is in corporate, commercial and securities law in particular, capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. His corporate advisory experience includes identification and assessment of acquisition targets, strategic advice, deal structuring and pricing, funding, due diligence and execution.
Mr Burke is also Chairman of Province Resources Limited, Mandrake Resources Limited and Meteoric Resources NL and a non-executive director of Triton Minerals Limited.
Company Secretary
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Mark Pitts
Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
Mr Pitts is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants with more than 30 years' experience in statutory reporting and business administration. He has been directly involved with and consulted to a number of public companies holding senior financial management positions.
He is a Partner in the corporate advisory firm Endeavour Corporate providing company secretarial support; corporate and compliance advice to a number of ASX listed public companies.
Mr Pitts is also company secretary of GWR.