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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Photo - Directors at the Mt Cattlin Opening Ceremony

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.

Ignatius (Iggy) Tan   BSc, MBA, GAICD - 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. 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 (Bob) Wanless -Independent 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 Resources Holdings Limited.

Xiaojian Ren - Non Executive Director

Mr Ren has extensive finance experience and is the co-founder, Director and President of Creat Group Ltd.  He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Creat Resources Holdings Limited and is currently non executive director.  Mr Ren’s previous directorships include Beijing Keruicheng Mining Investment Co Ltd and Yantai North Andre Juice Co.   He has significant experience in establishing and operating businesses in the Peoples Republic of China. 

Kai Cheong Kwan - Independent Non Executive Director

Mr Kwan is an experienced director in Hong Kong.   Mr Kwan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has been a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1982.  He completed the Stanford Executive Program in 1992.  Mr Kwan was previously the President and Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Pacific Region of Merrill Lynch & Co.  Mr Kwan is currently non-executive director of China Properties Group Ltd, JF Household Furnishings Ltd, Hutchison Harbour Ring Ltd, Soundwill Holdings Ltd, Win Hanverky Holdings Ltd, SPG Land (Holdings) Ltd and Sunlight REIT.  He was previously an independent non-executive director of Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, TS Telecom Technologies Ltd and Yaohan International Holdings Ltd. 

Anthony Tse - Executive Director

Mr Tse is a Hong Kong resident and was previously the Chief Executive Officer of CSN Corporation, a home shopping television channel in China.  Prior to this, he worked in strategy, development and M&A roles at the TOM Group for more than eight years.  During his time with the TOM Group, he served as Director of Corporate Development, Deputy General Manager of Online Operations and also President of China Entertainment Television, a joint venture with Time Warner.  Prior to joining the TOM Group, Mr Tse spent more than five years at News Corporation’s STAR TV.

Charles Whitfield - Executive Director

Mr Whitfield is the Principal Investment Officer of Drumrock Capital, an investment firm providing capital and advisory services to start-up and early round companies.  He was formerly a Managing Director with Citigroup where he held the position of head of the corporate equity solutions group (Asia Pacific).  Prior to this, he worked for Deutsche Bank where he was head of the strategic equity transactions group (Asia Pacific) from 2000.  Mr Whitfield received his Masters in Business Administration (majoring in Finance and Strategy) from Columbia Business School (New York) in 1998 and his Bachelor of Economics from The University of Exeter (U.K.) in 1992.

Michael Spratt - Independent Non Executive Director

Mr Spratt has 48 years of experience in base metals, mining, processing, smelting and construction sectors.  He was previously the Managing Director of Thailand's Thaisarco Limited, which is one of the world's largest tin smelters and is currently the Chairman of Kasbah Resources Limited (ASX:KAS).  Other past postions include Chief Operating Officer of Minproc Limited and Executive Vice President and Operations Director of Kaiser Engineers Pty Ltd.  Mr Spratt is a qualified metallurgist with extensive experience managing a range of operations in a variety of environments and geographies including Australia, Asia and Africa.

Shaoqing Wu - Non Executive Director

Mr Wu is currently the General Manager of Fengli.  Mr Wu is a civil engineering graduate of Shazhou College in Zhangjiagang City and has been an employee of Fengli for over 15 years.  He was promoted to the group's General Manager from a Vice President role in 2010.