Mr Thomas is a high energy, pragmatic corporate engineer with astute commercial acumen and business expertise. For over 30 years, before retiring from practice, he ran an industry leading legal practice on his own account specialising in the delivery of wide ranging legal, corporate and commercial advice to listed explorers and miners.

For nearly 40 years he has served on the boards of various listed companies including being the founding chairman of both copper producer Sandfire Resources and mineral sands producer Image Resources. Current ASX listed company board positions also include being a non-executive director of Image Resources and non-executive chair of Middle Island Resources.

Tim Staermose has 23 years’ equity capital markets and equity research experience. He worked at international sell-side equity brokerage firms in South Korea and Hong Kong, including Banque Indosuez (now part of Credit Agricole) in the late 1990s and Lehman Brothers in the early 2000s. Following his career in sell-side equity research, Tim has worked as an independent researcher and stock-picker for a series of private research firms, including ones focused specifically on natural resources, gold, and mining investments.  He also serves as Chief Investment Strategist for “sovereignman.com”.

Oliver is a director of a number of companies, one of which has mining interests in NSW. His professional credentials are that of a corporate treasurer. He commenced in banking over 40 years ago and during that time he became the inaugural WA state treasurer of the first bank to be established in Australia for over 60 years.

Subsequent to that appointment he went on to operate as a treasury management consultant for a number of merchant banks operating in Perth. In recent years he operated his own financial services companies before operating as a business management consultant.

During the last year he has focused his energies on being a director of a company with mining interests and looks forward to increasing his participation in the mining industry