| Non-Executive Chairman - Peter McNeil |
Peter McNeil is a graduate from the University of Houston, Texas B.Sc. (1982) and M.Sc. (Geochemistry-1985). Peter has accumulated 27 years continuous professional post–graduate mineral exploration industry experience, with 25 of those in Papua New Guinea (including the Lihir gold Deposit). He has also worked several field seasons in Tasmania, WA’s Kimberley and NE Goldfields, Arizona (U.S.A.) and Newfoundland (Canada). He was consultant site supervising geologist on the ‘discovery' holes of both the Nimary and Sunrise Dam gold ore bodies in WA, which became the largest and second largest gold discoveries in Australia during the 1990's totalling about 15 million ounces combined. |
| Managing Director - Peter Swiridiuk |
Peter Swiridiuk, Managing Director since July 2007. Age 43. BSc (Hons), DipEd, MAIG. Mr Swiridiuk has over 20 years experience exploring for VMS style copper deposits in Oman, Cyprus and PNG, copper-gold deposits in Mexico, Solomon Islands and PNG, diamond pipes throughout Australia and coal-copper-gold systems in eastern Australia. He has spent over 15 years managing the exploration, discovery and resource definition for copper deposits. Prior to this, he spent six years with DeBeers diamond services as a geophysicist in their Research and Technical Services Division. This involved the management of contractors and data analysis to explore for diamond deposits. He has written numerous independent technical geological reports on over 20 projects for the British Columbia Securities Commission (TSX-V). Mr Swiridiuk has not served as a Director of any other public listed companies during the last three years. |
| Non-Executive Director - Dal Brynelsen |
Dal Brynelsen holds a Diploma in Urban Land Economics from the University of British Columbia and is a licensed real estate broker of the Real Estate Council of British Columbia. Mr Brynelsen has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, including the discovery, financing and bringing into production of two gold mines in Canada. He is a founding Director of Griffin Mining NPL, being the first Western company to build a mine in China in 100 years, Griffin operates a zinc mine and has approx. 400 employees. Mr Brynelsen is also Director, President & CEO of Vangold Resources Ltd (TSX). |
| Non-Executive Director - Ces Iewago |
Ces Iewago, BACom, MBA, FAICD holds a Master of Business Administration, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has over 20 years experience in business banking, financial services and investments sectors in Papua New Guinea. Mr Iewago previously served as Managing Director of Public Officers Superannuation Fund. He was Country Director and General Manager of Investment Bank, Merrill Lynch in Papua New Guinea (1997 to 2000), and was responsible for its corporate and retail business. He also held the position of Deputy Managing Director of Papua New Guinea’s first Merchant Bank, Resources & Investment Finance Ltd (1990 to 1996) responsible for Marketing, Corporate Business and Portfolio Management. He is a director of New Guinea Gold Corporation, Canada (TSX-Venture) and a number of Papua New Guinea companies. |
| Non-Executive Director - Bob McNeil |
Bob McNeil, BSc (Hons), MSc. F AuslMM. During 50 years industry experience Mr McNeil has amassed extensive managerial exploration and mining expertise with multinational mining and oil companies in Australia, USA and the Asia Pacific region. Early in his career he was directly associated with the Juno and Warrego mine discoveries at Tennant Creek in Australia. He was Regional Exploration Manager for Unocal, based in Tucson, Arizona and gained specific expertise in the search for porphyry copper deposits. In 1980, Mr McNeil transferred to Papua New Guinea to establish and manage Exxon's Papua New Guinea mineral exploration group, where he held the position of General Manager from 1980 to 1986. Mr McNeil is also Chairman & CEO of New Guinea Gold Corp. (TSX) and Director of ASX listed company: Golden Tiger NL. |
Executive Director/ Company Secretary - Maurice Gannon |
Maurice J Gannon, BSc, GAICD, FCIS, AFAIM, MAusIMM, Executive Director and Company Secretary. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance and a Business Management Certificate. He has over twenty years experience in business and financial management and a professional background in earth and environmental sciences. Mr Gannon is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Secretaries, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He is President of New Guinea Gold Corporation, a TSX listed exploration and mining company, which is a substantial shareholder of Coppermoly Ltd. |
