Adrian Day, Robin Andrews, Wayne Reid OBE and
John Nethery
Wayne Reid OBE (Executive Chairman)
Mr Reid is one of Australia’s foremost sporting administrators having been President of Tennis Australia for 8 years, the Melbourne Football Club, The Confederation of Australian Sport, The International Assemble of Sport and as a Director of the Institute of Sport.
He commenced his business experience as CEO of one of Australia’s largest quarrying, ready mix concrete and asphalt companies. He has since been a director of over 12 Australian publicly listed companies covering a very wide range of industries, including such companies as Nicholas Kiwi, Nabisco, Adriatic Insurance (Now Tower Life) and Georges Of Collins Street. He was for many years a Director of Melbourne Moomba, Director of the Association for the Blind and Chairman of Low Vision Aid Clinic.
He has recently returned to Australia having resided
overseas for most of the past 20 years and during that time
served as the Executive Director of a listed European
Investment Bank which was also a member company of the London
Stock Exchange, a major European airline and one of Europe’s
largest travel conglomerates.
Robin Andrews established Angus and Ross plc, which is the major shareholder in Queensland Gold And Minerals Limited, in 1997 and as Chairman oversaw its initial growth and listing on the Alternative Investment Market in London. He has extensive experience in financing resource companies and projects. He began his business career as an investment analyst with de Zoete & Gorton in London before spending 30 years in investment banking with AE Ames, James Capel and Mead & Co. Robin graduated from Edinburgh University having studied civil engineering and economics.
John Nethery has 37 years of professional mineral exploration experience. He commenced with 18 years employed by Australian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd, which in 1981 established an offshoot AOG Minerals Ltd, where John rose to the level of General Manager-Minerals. He then established a geological consultancy as Nedex Pty Ltd in 1987 and in recent years has played a consulting role in exploration projects including the Red Dome mine and the still unexploited gold-zinc-copper-lead-silver deposit at Mungana around Chillagoe, North Queensland. He has worked throughout Australia, and on projects in many overseas countries in detailed exploration, reconnaissance and evaluation, primarily for gold deposits associated with volcanic rocks and co-discovered the epithermal gold deposit on Milos in the Aegean Sea. John has been exploring in Queensland, particularly for gold, for 30 years.
Adrian Day is a geologist who graduated from the University of Queensland in 1967. He has over 35 years geological and exploration experience with public and private companies both in Australia and overseas. His recent experience includes working for Queensland Tantalite Pty. Ltd (now renamed Queensland Gold and Minerals Limited) as a Director and Manager of exploration activities, in which role he acquired the majority of the properties included in this Prospectus.
Prior to this, his experience included the supervision of the construction and commissioning of a 500,000 tonne per annum gold operation in Fiji, and as the manager of the 350,000 tonne per annum Cracow gold mine in Queensland.
John Haley is a Chartered Accountant (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants) with over 20 years experience in tax (with Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen & Co), general management, financial reporting and company secretarial duties. He has extensive experience in the preparation of Prospectuses and has been involved in the listing of Companies in Australia and Canada. His work experience is in a diverse range of industries including mineral exploration, and he has participated as a seed capitalist in a number of mineral exploration companies. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, the Securities Institute of Australia and the Taxation Institute of Australia.