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.

Following a successful background in Agribusiness on both domestic and international stages, Mr Rutherford has spent over 20 years in the Mining Services / Fabrication / Contracting sector. This includes Managing Directorship of a contracting and construction company operating in the water space. Current activities include project development in the renewable energy space and business development in the indigenous mining segment, and aviation related interests.

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”.