DIRECTORS
Glenn Whiddon
Chair and Non-executive Director
Mr Whiddon has extensive experience in banking and corporate advisory having worked for the Bank of New York in Sydney, Melbourne, Geneva and Moscow. In 1994 Mr Whiddon established a boutique merchant bank in Moscow, providing corporate advice and undertaking direct investments and has continued this focus via public company resource investments in Australia, Europe and Canada.
Gino D'Anna
Executive Director
Mr. D'Anna graduated from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2005 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), completing a thesis on investor relations and information asymmetry in Australian financial markets. Mr D’Anna completed a scholarship in Applied Finance at UWA, which was subsequently published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Finance. In addition, Mr D’Anna has completed a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment with FINSIA.
Mr. D'Anna has extensive experience in the financial markets of Perth and Australia as a whole, having been involved in the IPO and ASX Listing of Total Staffing Solutions Ltd, Atom Energy Ltd, International Resource Holdings Ltd (formerly known as Balkans Gold Ltd) and Stonehenge Metals Ltd.
Mr. D'Anna has been involved in the reconstruction and recapitalisation of Resource Generation Ltd (formerly Comdek Ltd), Maverick Energy Ltd (formerly Maverick Drilling International Ltd), Atlantic Ltd, Lach Drummond Resources Ltd and Flowcom Ltd.
Mr. D'Anna has also been involved in a number of secondary capital raisings and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in private funding vehicles, property investments, private equity and debt markets, and has specialist understanding and experience in dealing with ASX Listing Rules and compliance requirements.
Richard Jarvis
Executive Director
Mr Jarvis is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and has over 10 years financial and accounting experience gained in public practice and industry. On emigrating to Australia from the UK in 2003 he worked as a Senior Accountant in the assurance and advisory division of a public practice based in Perth, providing advice on corporate administration and financial compliance related issues. In 2007 he established his own consulting business, which provides financial & accounting and company secretarial services to public companies in the resource sector.
Matthew Sutcliffe
Non-executive Director
Dr Sutcliffe graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1990 with a PhD in mining engineering. Dr Sutcliffe is also a chartered engineer and worked as a mining engineer in underground nickel mines from 1990 to 1994 with Inco Ltd, within its Manitoba division. Dr Sutcliffe also has additional experience in operating gold and coal mines gained whilst working with Gencor and British Coal. In total he has 18 years' experience in the mining industry, including 10 years in the City of London as a mining analyst and corporate financier specialising in the resources sector.
