Directors & Management
Alastair Morrison
Executive Director
M.Sc (Hons), Grad Dip App Fin & Inv, MAIG, GAICD
Mr Morrison is a geologist and finance professional
with more than 30 years’ experience in mineral exploration and investment. He initially
worked for more than six years in Australia as an exploration geologist in WA
and the Northern Territory. His experience in WA included both mine and
exploration geology roles at the Wiluna, Lawlers and Bellevue gold mines, as
well as early-stage exploration work in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. In
the Northern Territory he worked for North Flinders Mines at Dead Bullock Soak
during resource definition and early development of the >10 million ounce
Callie gold deposit. He later managed the North Flinders exploration team in
the NW Arunta region.
From 1996 to 2003 he was Exploration Manager in
Tanzania for East African Gold Mines Limited at the North Mara Gold Project.
During that time, the exploration team at East African Gold Mines delineated more
than 5 million ounces of resources, including the discovery of the high-grade
Gokona gold deposit. In later years, he had additional responsibilities for all
in-country development activities, through feasibility and permitting until the
commencement of construction. East African Gold Mines was acquired by Placer
Dome Inc. in mid-2003 for US$252 million.
Since 2004, he has worked as an analyst and portfolio
manager for a family office investment fund. He has also been involved on the
board of various private companies with exploration interests in South
America. Mr Morrison was a non-executive director of ASX-listed E2 Metals
Limited from 2019 until 2021.
Mr Morrison has been a non-executive director of
OreCorp Limited since 27 February 2013 and a director of the Company since 24 September 2021, taking on the role of Executive Director from 2 May 2022.
Craig Williams
Non-Executive Chairman
B.Sc. (Hons)
Mr Williams is a geologist with over 40 years’
experience in mineral exploration and mine development. From the early 1980’s
to the mid-1990’s he ran exploration programs for initially Pancontinental Mining
Limited and then Hunter Resources Limited, mainly focussed on gold exploration
in the Eastern Goldfields of WA and the Mt Isa-Cloncurry region of North
Queensland. Discoveries included Mertondale, Goongarrie, Dalgaranga and
most importantly, the Nimary-Jundee gold mine near Wiluna and the Ernest Henry
copper-gold mine near Cloncurry.
In 1993 he co-founded Equinox Minerals Limited with
the late Dr Bruce Nisbet and was the President and CEO of Equinox until it was
taken over in mid-2011 by Barrick Gold Corporation for $7 billion. Mr Williams
was instrumental in the financing and development of the major Lumwana Copper
mine in Zambia which resulted in Equinox being one of the world’s top 20 copper
producers.
Mr Williams has been Chairman of OreCorp Limited since 27
February 2013 and a non-executive director of the Company since 24 September 2021. He also holds non-executive directorships with Liontown
Resources Limited and Minerals 260 Limited.
Matthew Yates
Non-Executive Director
B.Sc. (Hons), MAIG
Mr Yates is an accomplished exploration geologist with
35 years’ industry experience, covering all facets of exploration from
generative work to project development. This includes nine years in the
Goldfields of WA. He managed highly successful exploration teams at
Nimary-(Jundee) in WA and also completed extensive gold exploration programs in
the Murchison, Wheat Belt and Pilbara regions of WA.
Prior to founding OreCorp Limited, he was the Managing
Director of OmegaCorp and Joint Managing Director of Mantra Resources Limited.
He has been instrumental in the acquisition of the key assets in all the
companies he has managed, including the assets of Solstice Minerals. Mr Yates
has planned, managed and executed significant gold, base metal and mineral sand
projects in Australia, Central Asia, the Gulf Region and southern, east and
west Africa.
Mr Yates has been CEO and Managing Director of OreCorp Limited and a non-executive director of the Company since 27 February
2013.
Mike Klessens
Non-Executive Director
B.Com, CPA
Mr Klessens is a CPA with over 30 years’ practical
financial and management experience, particularly within the resources
industry. This experience has involved all areas of corporate and treasury
management, project financing, capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, dual
listings, feasibility studies and establishment of systems and procedures for
new mining operations.
Mr Klessens held senior financial positions in a
number of Australian listed companies involved in the development and
enhancement of new and ongoing mining operations from exploration, feasibility
and to construction and production including projects in Laverton, Leonora,
Katherine and the Tanami Desert between 1991 to 2001. From 2002 - 2011,
Mr Klessens was Vice President - Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Equinox
Minerals Limited where he was responsible for finance, debt and equity
financings, treasury and all financial functions of the Company and its
operations.
Mr Klessens has been a non-executive of OreCorp Limited since 27 February 2013 and a non-executive director of the Company since 28 January 2022.
Robert Rigo
Non-Executive Director
B.App Sc (Mech Eng), FAusIMM, MIEAust, GAICD
Mr Rigo is an engineer with over 40 years' experience.
His initial professional work was in operations with WMC in the Eastern
Goldfields of WA at Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter, Kambalda Nickel Operations,
Windarra Nickel Operations and Lancefield Gold Project. This was followed by
operations roles at Christmas Island Phosphate and then the Mill Manager at
Boddington Gold Mine (at that time, Australia's largest gold mine). He then
moved into project development and became General Manager - Technical Services
for Newcrest Mining Ltd, Australia's major gold producer.
Further progression saw him hold a number of executive
and executive director positions with publicly listed mining companies
including Mt Edon Gold Mines (Leonora) and Kilkenny Gold (NT).
Mr Rigo joined Equinox Minerals Limited in 2001 and
became Vice President - Project Development, where he managed the technical
aspects of the development of the Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia, which commenced production in 2008. Following Lumwana, Mr Rigo managed the
construction of the Jabal Sayid (underground) Copper Mine in Saudi Arabia
initially for Equinox and then Barrick.
Mr Rigo’s particular expertise lies in the development
of mining projects from feasibility study phase to operations.
Mr Rigo has been a non-executive director of OreCorp Limited since 1 April 2016 and a non-executive director of the Company since 28 January 2022.
Dr Mark Alvin
Exploration Manager
BSc (Hons), PhD, MAusIMM, MSEG, MGSA
Dr Alvin is a geologist with over 20 years
professional experience in multi-commodity minerals exploration in Australia,
Africa and North America. He has held global and country level leadership roles
of cross-functional exploration and pre-development teams for over 15 years
with companies including Nyrstar, Rio Tinto, Strandline Resources and MRG
Metals. Dr Alvin has international management experience in generative and
advanced exploration, through order-of-magnitude and feasibility studies
related to gold, base-metal, coal and titanium-zircon heavy mineral sand
deposits. He has been a member of exploration teams at Geita, Yaramoko and
Buhemba gold deposits plus production at the Myra Falls and Langlois
polymetallic gold-silver-lead-zinc mines.
Dr Alvin was awarded the Rio Tinto Exploration
Discovery Award in 2009 for the Mutamba titanium-zircon heavy mineral deposit
discovery in Mozambique. He is multi-lingual with fluency in Kiswahili and
Portuguese and has completed postgraduate studies in occupational safety and
health risk management.
Dr Alvin commenced with OreCorp Limited in October 2020 as Exploration Manager (Western Australia), taking on the role of Exploration Manager at the Company from 22 April 2022.
Tania Cheng
Chief Financial Officer
B.Com, CA
Mrs Cheng is a Chartered Accountant who commenced her
career in a large Chartered Accounting firm and who has over 25 years of
financial and corporate experience, primarily in the resources sector.
Mrs Cheng’s involvement with OreCorp Limited commenced in
2012, holding senior finance roles within OreCorp from September 2016 to
February 2018 and since September 2019. She was appointed Chief Financial
Officer on 22 July 2021.
Mrs Cheng provides services to Solstice Minerals by way of the Transitional Services Agreement between the Company and OreCorp.
Jessica O'Hara
Company Secretary
LLB, BCom
Ms O’Hara is a corporate lawyer with extensive
experience advising clients on general corporate law and regulatory/compliance issues.
She has previously held senior positions at both Clayton Utz and Allen &
Overy and more recently, had experience acting as in-house legal counsel. Ms
O’Hara has advised a significant number of ASX-listed clients with operations
in Australia and overseas, with specific experience within the mining and
resources sectors.
Ms O’Hara joined OreCorp Limited as legal counsel in
August 2021 and was appointed joint company secretary on 6 December 2021 (and subsequently became sole company secretary as from 31 January 2022). Ms O'Hara was appointed company secretary of Solstice Minerals on 24 September 2021.
Ms
O’Hara provides services to Solstice Minerals by way of the Transitional Services
Agreement between the Company and OreCorp.