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DIRECTORS

 

Craig Readhead   B Juris, LLB, MAICD
Non Executive Chairman

Mr Readhead holds the degrees of Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Jurisprudence from the University of Western Australia.  He has spent the last 28 years practicing in the resources law area and was a partner of a major Perth Law firm before forming his own practice 11 years ago.  He is now a partner of the law firm Allion Legal. 

Mr Readhead has had a significant role in the development of a number of mining projects within Australia, Africa and South East Asia.  Mr Readhead is a director of a number of listed and unlisted companies.


Iggy Tan   BSc, MBA, MAICD
Managing Director

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.

Robert Wanless
Non-Executive Director

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.

Yuewen Zheng PhD
Non-Executive Director

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.

He has a PhD in Finance and a Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics.  Dr Zheng is also Non Executive Chairman of AIM listed Creat Resource Holdings Limited.

 

Ivo Polovineo
Non-Executive Director

Mr Polovineo was previously Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for Sino Gold Mining Limited, formerly an ASX 100 company.

Mr Polovineo was with Sino Gold for 12 years forming part of the executive team that built the company from a market capitalisation of A$100m before it was acquired by Eldorado Gold Corporation in December 2009 for approximately $2.4 billion.

Given Sino Gold developed and operated three gold mining operations in the Peoples Republic of China, Mr Polovineo is highly familiar with the cultural requirements for an Australian company doing business in China,  He  also played an instrumental role in Sino Gold’s dual listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007. 

Mr Polovineo is a Professional Member of National Institute of Accountants (PNA) with more than 30 years experience as a CFO and Company Secretary including over 20 years in the resources sector.

 

SENIOR MANAGEMENT

Management

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 commenced his career with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and 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 the founding Company Secretary of Novacoat Holdings Limited (now Decmil Group Limited) listing on the ASX in 2005 and is a former assistant Company Secretary of an S&P/ASX 200 Index 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.

Jingyuan Liu PhD
Technical Manager

Dr Liu has over 20 years experience in project management, process design and equipment design involving mineral processing, chemical industries, non-ferrous industries, iron & steel industries and energy industries.  He has a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering. He worked at a senior design role in a mineral processing equipment provider.  He also worked as a consultant in Hatch prior to joining Galaxy.

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.