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Board and Management

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

 

Paul Raymond Murray CPA ASIA
(Chairman)

Paul Murray has a business career spanning some 45 years, mainly within the City of Sydney CBD .

During that period he has been responsible for the successful listing on the ASX of a number of public companies, including resource exploration floats. Among others, he floated and was a founding director of successful oil and gas explorers and subsequent producers, Basin Oil NL and Reef Oil NL (Chairman).

Mining experience includes establishment of the high volume, open cut Emmaville Tin Mine in the New England district of NSW.

In recent years he has held consultancy retainers from time to time from ASX listed exploration companies, including Fimiston Mining NL (now Visiomed Ltd), and Capricorn Resources Australia NL, at the time of the successful discovery of the high grade Emily Ann nickel deposit, now part of the highly profitable operations of the LionOre Group.

Paul Murray graduated in 1958 as an Associate of The Australian Society of Accountants (AASA), now the Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) qualification. In 1962 he qualified as an Associate of the Stock Exchange Institute, now the Securities Industry of Australia (SIA) qualification.

 

 

Andrew Bell
Director

Mr. Bell is Chairman of Red Rock Resources plc, a company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange Ltd, and a substantial shareholder of Jupiter Mines Ltd. He was a natural resources analyst in London in the 1970s, then specialised in investment and investment banking covering the Asian region. He has been involved in the resource and mining sectors in Asia since the 1990s, and has served on the Boards of a number of listed resource companies. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society.

He is presently also Chairman of Retail Star Limited (ASX:RSL) and Chairman of Regency Mines plc (AIM:RGM), both affiliates of Red Rock Resources plc, and of Greatland Gold plc (AIM:GGP).

 

 

Priyank Thapliyal
Director

Mr. Priyank Thapliyal a founding partner of Pallinghurst Resources LLP , joined Sterlite Industries in 2000 as a USD 100 million firm, serving as deputy to the owner Mr. Anil Agarwal. Mr. Priyank Thapliyal implemented the strategies that led to Sterlite becoming Vedanta Resources plc (including its USD 870 million London IPO), a FTSE 100 company which was valued at USD 7.5 billion at the time of his departure in October 2005.

Mr. Priyank Thapliyal led Vedanta’s USD 50 million investment in Konkola Copper Mines, Zambia , in 2004, a stake currently valued at more than USD 1 billion. Mr. Priyank Thapliyal was a former mining and metals investment banker with CIBCWM, Toronto Canada and is a qualified Metallurgical Engineer, MBA ( Western Ontario , Canada ) and former Falconbridge employee.

 

Alan Topp
Director

Alan is a Chartered Accountant with 26 years experiance in Corporate, Reconstruction, Business Acquistions, Audit and Tax.



William Wang
Director

William holds a MBA degree majoring in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong . Over the past 15 years, William has held senior management positions in several major Chinese state owned companies, with his most recent position with China Poly Group being the Deputy General Manager for an international trading company with group assets exceeding US$1.5 billion. William has wide business connections in China and after moving to Australia in 2002, he joined Minerals Corporation Limited, an Australian listed company in industrial minerals. He is a founding Director of Queensland based bauxite exploration company, Gulf Alumina Pty Ltd. Other Directorships held include Ascend Asset Management Limited, China Century Capital Limited, ZBB China Pty Ltd, and Cominco Pty Ltd.



Patrick Sam Yue
Director

Patrick Sam Yue is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a member of the Institute of Company Directors .

He started his career in accountancy in London with Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) in the 1970’s. After having worked in Africa and the Middle East, he joined the finance industry in Australia in 1985 before moving on to the resources industry. He has over 20 years experience in financial and corporate management in Australia having held senior financial executive and company secretary positions within ASX listed entities in the oil and gas and mining sector. He is presently company secretary and chief financial officer of Ord River Resources Limited, a base metal exploration company with operations in Australia and Laos PDR in co-operation with China Nonferrous Metals International Mining Co., Ltd.

Mr Youfu (Andrew) Zhou
Director

Mr. Zhou is currently Chairman and Managing Director of the Haoning Group, based in Beijing China .  Haoning specialisies in the procurement and distribution of bulk commodities, in particular iron ore.  In 2007 Haoning was the second largest privately owned iron ore trading company in China .  It supplies various commodities to more than 50 steel mills across China . Haoning and its subsidiaries have interests in a range of commodity related businesses including resource companies, shipping, supply and logistics and distribution companies.  Haoning has offices across China , Hong Kong Australia , India , Indonesia Venezuela and Brazil .

Mr. Zhou is a graduate from the Hebei Technology and Science Institution and has worked in the commodity trading business for more than 20 years.