Shaun Bunn
Managing Director
Mr. Bunn is a metallurgist based in Perth, Western Australia , with over 35 years’ experience in exploration, mining, processing and project development, including over 25 years’ experience in the gold mining sector. Mr. Bunn has built a successful track record managing mining projects across a wide range of commodities and has managed mining projects through all stages of development, from grass roots exploration, feasibility studies, financing, construction, commissioning and operations.
Neil O’Brien
Non-Executive Chairman
Dr. O’Brien is a consulting economic geologist and mining executive with 30 years of industry service including Board roles in public and private exploration companies. He has international experience on five continents in all stages of exploration and development, project evaluation and strategic corporate development. He retired in 2018 from Lundin Mining as SVP Exploration & New Business Development and now provides consulting services and is non-executive director of other public companies
Gregory Kuenzel
Finance Director
Mr Kuenzel is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales with over 28 years of corporate and financial experience. He began his career providing audit and corporate services in Perth, Australia before moving to the UK in 2003. For the past 18 years he has been working with AIM listed companies, predominantly within the mining and resources sectors. He has extensive experience in corporate finance, fundraising, investor relations and financial and management reporting. He is a partner at Westend Corporate LLP, an accounting and corporate advisory firm based in London.
Peter Damouni
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Damouni has over 18 years of experience in investment banking and capital markets, with expertise in mining and oil and gas. Throughout his career, Mr. Damouni has worked on and led equity and debt financings valued at over $5 billion. He has comprehensive experience in equity financing, restructuring, corporate valuations and advisory assignments. Mr. Damouni is a director of a number of companies listed on the LSE, TSX and the TSXV.
Narelle Marriott
Process Development Manager
Ms. Marriott is an experienced metallurgist with over 20 years’ experience working across multiple commodities including nickel, uranium, iron ore, and rare earths. After graduating from University of Queensland, with a Bachelor of Engineering (Minerals Process) Honours she worked for BHP progressing to Senior Process Engineer at BHP’s Perth Technology Centre. In that time she planned and managed all aspects of developing a beneficiation process flowsheet, including initial concept testwork, variability testwork, orebody assessments, pilot plant operation, design criteria development and translation to engineering design. Most recently Ms. Marriott was employed as the General Manager – Process Development for Hastings Technology Metals Pty Ltd. (‘Hastings’), working on the Yangibana Project. Ms. Marriott has also worked on a large iron ore project in the Mid-West region of WA, not far from the Pitfield Project and as the Process Manager for Crosslands Resources.
Andrew Faragher
Exploration Manager
Mr Faragher is an experienced exploration geologist with over 25 years’ experience working across multiple commodities including copper/gold, base metals, uranium, iron ore, bauxite and diamonds. He has a strong track record of discoveries and a deep understanding of exploration. Amongst other senior positions, Andrew was employed by Rio Tinto as their Chief Geologist – Iron Ore and Bauxite for Rio Tinto (2018-2021) and prior to that their Exploration Manager-Canada (2014-2018). Highlights of his career with Rio Tinto include leading a team which discovered in excess of 5Bt of iron ore in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, along with building and developing successful exploration teams in both Australia and Canada.
Ed Baltis
Exploration Consultant
Mr Baltis has had a long and distinguished career in the gold exploration sector and as a geologist. He has an extensive knowledge on the geology within the Archaean Yilgarn Craton and its mineral potential with expertise in orogenic gold systems, as well as notable operational experience having managed and led exploration campaigns for a diverse range of commodities throughout Australasia, Africa and the Americas. He has previously held various high level positions at a number of gold exploration and mining companies, including the position of Principal Geologist within the Western Mining Corporation Global Gold exploration team, Vice President Project Generation for Gold Fields Limited.
Louisa Stokes
Exploration Geologist
Ms Stokes is a PhD Candidate of Applied Geology at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. She holds a 1st Class with Honours MScs in Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, after graduating in 2010. She has worked as an Exploration Geologist for gold explorer and producers around the world and has previously been involved in the discovery and development of a high-profile 3.56Moz gold project in Liberia.
Shaun Bunn
Managing Director
Mr. Bunn is a metallurgist based in Perth, Western Australia , with over 35 years’ experience in exploration, mining, processing and project development, including over 25 years’ experience in the gold mining sector. Mr. Bunn has built a successful track record managing mining projects across a wide range of commodities and has managed mining projects through all stages of development, from grass roots exploration, feasibility studies, financing, construction, commissioning and operations.
Gregory Kuenzel
Finance Director
Mr Kuenzel is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales with over 28 years of corporate and financial experience. He began his career providing audit and corporate services in Perth, Australia before moving to the UK in 2003. For the past 18 years he has been working with AIM listed companies, predominantly within the mining and resources sectors. He has extensive experience in corporate finance, fundraising, investor relations and financial and management reporting. He is a partner at Westend Corporate LLP, an accounting and corporate advisory firm based in London.