Board & Management
Mark Bojanjac
B.Com, ICAA
Executive Chairman
Mark is a Chartered Accountant with almost 30 years’ direct experience in developing resource companies. He was a founding director of a public company which discovered one of Australia’s highest grade gold mines at East-Kundana near Kalgoorlie in WA and managing director of an unlisted public company which successfully developed a 2.4Moz gold resource in Mongolia. He was previously CEO of Adamus Resources Limited, where he oversaw its advancement from an early stage exploration project through definitive feasibility studies and managed the debt and equity financing to build its successful Ghanaian gold mine. He was also formerly a Non-Executive director of QLD silica sand developer Metallica Minerals Limited and of WA resources explorer Kula Gold Limited, until those companies were taken over.
Jason Berton
Ph.D, B.Sc (Hons), MAusIMM
Managing Director
Jason is a geologist with more than 16 years’ mining and exploration experience including working for Homestake, Barrick and BHP Billiton and SRK Consulting. Jason has also previously spent two years in private equity investment and four years as Managing Director of ASX-listed Estrella Resources. Jason holds two Degrees, a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) plus a PhD in Structural Geology, all from Macquarie University. Jason is a Non-Executive Director of advanced lithium explorer Lithium Plus Minerals.
Frazer Tabeart
Ph.D, B.Sc (Hons), ARSM, MAIG
Non-Executive Director
Frazer is a geologist with 30 years international experience in exploration and project development, with a strong technical background in porphyry copper-gold systems in SE Asia, SW Pacific, the American Cordillera and central and northern Asia. After spending 16 years with WMC Resources and managing exploration portfolios in the Philippines, Mongolia and Africa, he left to join the Mitchell River Group. He has served on ASX-listed Company Boards at Executive level over the past 10 years. He is a Director and Principal at Mitchell River Group (see below), current Managing Director of African Energy Resources Limited, current Managing Director of Alma Metals Limited and Non-Executive chair of Arrow Minerals Limited.
Bob Boaz
B.A. (Hons), M.A. Economics
Non-Executive Director
Bob graduated with honours from McMaster University of Hamilton, Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and has a Masters Degree in Economics from York University in Toronto. He is a highly respected financial and economic strategist in Canadian bond and equity markets with experience related to equity research, portfolio management, institutional sales and investment banking. Mr Boaz has more than 20 years’ experience in the finance industry, most recently as Managing Director, Investment Banking with Raymond James Ltd and Vice-President, Head of Research and in-house portfolio strategist for Dundee Securities Corporation.
Ian Cunningham
B.Com, LLB, ICAA, FGIA
CFO and Company Secretary
Ian is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Australia. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance from the Governance Institute of Australia and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. Mr. Cunningham has 15 years’ experience in the resources industry in executive and senior management roles, including with Adamus Resources Ltd, during which time Adamus developed the Nzema Gold Mine (Ghana) before merging with Endeavour Mining Corporation. He was also formerly a Non-Executive director of QLD silica sand developer Metallica Minerals Limited and of WA resources explorer Kula Gold Limited until those companies were taken over.
