| From L to R: Front: Terry Stark, Iggy Tan, Phil Tornatora,
From L to R: Back:
Anand Sheth, , Mike Kitney, John Sobolewski, Terry Brittliffe.
Terry Stark
General Manager - Australia
Mr Terry Stark is a mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience throughout Australia in the nickel, gold, manganese and chromite industries. His experience covers mine development and operation and he has been responsible for the construction of two new projects in recent years. He is the holder of a West Australian First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency and a Quarry Manager’s Certificate of Competency.
Anand Sheth
General Manager Marketing & Bus Development
Mr Anand Sheth is a Technical and Marketing professional with more than 25 years. For the past 10 years, Mr Sheth has been the Lithium and Tantalum Marketing Manager at Talison Minerals Pty Ltd (ex-Sons of Gwalia Limited). Mr Sheth is highly experienced in the international marketing and global sales of lithium and tantalite mineral products. During his time at Sons of Gwalia, he played an integral role in developing the lithium business, growing sales by 150% within 5 years.
John Sobolewski B Com CA
CFO
Mr John Sobolewski is a CA qualified accounting professional with ten years experience in the accounting industry, including five years in executive roles with companies within the resources industry in Western Australia. Most recently, Mr Sobolewski was CFO and Company Secretary for Vital Metals Limited (ASX: VML). Mr Sobolewski’s previous experience also includes positions as Financial Controller and Company Secretary with Croesus Mining NL and Group Accountant and Company Secretary with Titan Resources NL.
Andrew Meloncelli B Com CA F.Fin FCIS
Company Secretary
Mr Andrew Meloncelli has extensive experience working as a Company Secretary for resources companies listed on AIM, ASX and TSX in the areas of corporate compliance/governance, finance, investor relations, prospectus fundraisings, systems implementation and taxation.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Western Australia, in addition is a Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia, Taxation Institute of Australia and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Andrew was formerly an Assistant Company Secretary for a ASX200 Company.
Mark Sun
Managing Director - China
Mr Mark Sun has extensive experience in the management of chemical and processing facilities in China. He is graduate of bachelor of Engineering from Northeast University and holds an Master of Business Administration from Shanghai JiaoTong University.
His recent position was General Manager of a Vale Inco subsidiary producing nickel products in Dalian, China. Mark has spent most of his career working for Wholly Owned Foreign Companies (WFOE) such as Schaffner EMC, Automa-tech Shanghai, Shanghai EFTEC Chemical Products and Diodes Electronics (China).
Philip Tornatora
Exploration & Geology Manager
Mr Philip Tornatora is a geologist with over 16 years gold and base metals experience in Australia, Africa and SE Asia. His experience has been principally in regional and near mine exploration and resource development roles. Prior to his current position, he worked for a number of years for AngloGold Ashanti, most recently as District Geologist, Philippines, and prior to that as Exploration Manager, Mali.
Terry Brittliffe
Mt Cattlin Project Consultant
Mr Terry Brittliffe is a qualified metallurgist and chemist who has worked in mining all his life, having over 40 years experience in technical, operational and managerial positions within the industry. As well as a period of 6 years in corporate management in 1984-1989, he has run his own consultancy since 1980, specialising in operational and project management, with emphasis on project conceptualization and design, and troubleshooting and production “debottlenecking”. He has had experience in iron ore, mineral sands, gold and silver, strategic metals, industrial minerals and the assessment and application of technical innovations to mineral processing.
Michael Kitney
Jiangsu Lithium Carbonate Project Consultant
Mr Michael Kitney is a qualified metallurgist who is the consultant engineer with MSP Engineering Pty Ltd. He has 39 years experience in the mining industry having worked as a process engineer, operational and managerial positions with companies like WMC, Alcoa, British Phosphate Comissioners, Golconda Minerals Minproc Engineers and Nelson Resources.
Mr Kitney was the commissioning Minproc engineer responsible for the Sons of Gwalia lithium carbonate plant.
Chris Rainsford
Mt Cattlin
Resident Manager
Mr Rainsford is a mining engineer with over 25 years experience in the mining industry with strategic planning and operational experience in both large and small scale open cut and underground mining operations. He successfully oversaw planning and commissioning of the Greenbushes Underground Mine in 2001. He was previously Resident Manager of Yilgarn Star Gold Mine for a period of 5 years from 1995 to 2000. During his career, he has worked for companies such as Newcrest Mining Ltd, Sons of Gwalia Ltd, Western Mining Corporation and Gold Fields. Mr Rainsford has a First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency and Ph.D in Mining Engineering from University of Nottingham.
Wang Xiao Yi
Jiangsu
Operations Manager
Mr Wang has 32 years experience in the production of lithium carbonate and worked at the Xingjiang Lithium Carbonate Plant, in China from 1975 to 2007. He was the Vice Plant General Manager of Xingjiang from 1992 to 1995. Mt Wang has also lithium carbonate marketing experience when he was responsible for product marketing for the last 12 years at Xingjiang. Mr Wang is considered an expert in the production of lithium carbonate in China.
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Mr Tan is an experienced operations executive with over 24 years of experience in the mining and chemical industry. He has also a proven background in both marketing and business development. Mr Tan has been in managerial roles with SCM Chemicals and Sons of Gwalia; and General Manager roles at Westlime, Iluka Resources (MW), Imdex Minerals and Metals X Limited. His responsibilities have included the commissioning and operations management of several significant mining and processing projects in Western Australia. During his time at Iluka, he won the Prime Minister’s Community and Business Partnership award for industry commitment to local communities in WA. Mr Tan is a former Chairman of the Western Australian Chamber of Minerals and Energy’s Murchison Regional Council. Mr Tan managed the Lithium Mineral and Lithium Carbonate plants at Sons of Gwalia, Greenbushes operations in 1995. Mr Tan was previously the Managing Director of Nickelore Limited.
Mr Robert Wanless is a prospector and mining investor with 33 years mining industry experience, he was employed by Placer Exploration Limited as a professional prospector and exploration supervisor covering South East Asia and Australia including exploration at Laloki, Watut and Pleysumi (PNG) and throughout Western Australia. Since then he embarked on all aspects of mineral exploration, assessment, acquisition, fieldwork, development and mining, mainly in Western Australia. He has negotiated numerous mining related sale and joint venture agreements with several International and Australian mining companies involving gold, base metals and industrial mineral properties. Recently he managed the Alicia Gold Mine in Western Australia. He is a past founding director of ASX listed Greenstone Resources NL.
Dr Zheng is the founder of Creat Group Co Ltd and has worked in several major Chinese governmental organisations including the Ministry of Railway and the State Bureau of Seismology. He is Vice President of the All-China General Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Vice President of the China Non-Governmental Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Association. 