Directors & Management
Kim Warren McGrath, (Chairman) BEc(Hons) LLB FAICD FTIA CPA,
Mr McGrath is an internationally experienced resources finance and investment banking executive. He is the Managing Director of Delta Corporate Finance Pty Limited, a specialist advisory group based in Sydney with active business interests in Australia and the UK.
His positions in Australia have included senior roles with Comalco and ICL, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Bank of America Australia, General Counsel with Bell Resources responsible for negotiating international lines of finance, business acquisitions and strategy and development and General Manager Strategy and Planning with Industrial Equity Limited.
During the 1990’s Mr McGrath worked in London on the restructure of companies in Eastern Europe and particularly on major operations in CIS metals and oil trading, and associated financing in London and Geneva. Prior to this he was recruited by a major corporate group as Executive Director and CEO to implement an international scheme of arrangement involving a large scale debt to equity conversion, major asset dispositions and the introduction of appropriate management planning and control measures for over 350 subsidiaries worldwide.
In addition to his business and legal qualifications Mr McGrath has completed the Advanced Management Programme at Oxford University, is a CPA and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. His other directorships include Oil Basins Ltd and Taragon Management Limited, the manager and responsible entity of the listed Taragon Property Fund.
Mark A Muzzin (Managing Director)
Mark A Muzzin has had over 20 years of commercial experience and holds a B.A. degree from Latrobe University, Melbourne. His career commenced in the mid eighties for a London stock broking firm and he has consulted for two of the major banks in Australia in the share custodian area. He has been involved in capital raising activities for resource companies in Australia and has consulted to various oil/gas and minerals companies. Mr Muzzin is a director of U Energy Pty Ltd which is seeking access from the Commonwealth into the Cultana Training Area in South Australia to undertake mineral exploration. He is a director of two US quoted companies and is a director of a number of Australian public and private companies. Mr Muzzin is a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.
Glenister Lamont (Non Exectutive Director)
Glenister Lamont, BEng Mining (Hons), MBA (IMD Switzerland) FAICD, FFin, is a professional Non-Executive director. Recent roles include Managing Director and consultant for a range of resource companies. Previously, as a GM with Ashton Mining, he led strategy and commercial implementation of business development initiatives and managed all aspects of investor and corporate affairs. Prior to that, as an Executive Director at the leading European investment bank UBS Warburg, he conducted financial, technical and strategic evaluation of mining companies and participated in a wide range of corporate transactions. He has international mining experience in base metals, gold, coal and other commodities that has included experience as a mining engineer with Preussag in Germany and Houston Oil & Minerals as well as a rock mechanic engineer and mining engineer in South Africa for Goldfields of South Africa.
MelanieLeydin (Company Secretary)
Ms Leydin has 18 years experience in the accounting profession and is company secretary for a number of junior mining, oil and gas and exploration entities listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.