Our People

BA (Accounting), FCA, FCPA, FAICD

Greg Boulton has extensive commercial and resource sector experience spanning over 40 years as CEO and Non-Executive Director for many Public and Private Companies. He has broad experience in corporate governance, capital raisings, acquisitions and commercial negotiations. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Institute of Chartered Accountants and CPA Australia. Mr Boulton is currently a Director of Statewide Superannuation Fund, Kangaroo Island Plantation Timber Limited and various Private Companies based in South Australia.

MBA MSc FSEG MAusIMM

Robert Smillie is an experienced management and exploration professional, with over 30 years of experience, including significant epithermal gold exploration, and is particularly familiar with living and working in Asia. Rob holds an MBA from Victoria University, New Zealand, and a Master of Science degree from Otago University majoring in Geology. Mr Smillie’s previous senior roles include exploration and Country Management for companies such as Ok Tedi Mining in Papua New Guinea, the National Petroleum and Mining Authority in Timor-Leste, and TSX-listed Calibre Mining in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and Oceana Gold Ltd at projects in New Zealand and the Philippines. Mr Smillie is based at our Daejeon office in South Korea.

BSc (Eng) Mining, ARSM, MAICD, FAusIMM

Peter Bamford has a career spanning more than 40 years in the construction and mining industries, principally in underground mining operations as a mining engineer, mine manager and as a corporate executive. Mr Bamford’s experience includes senior appointments with Mount Isa Mines, Metana/Gold Mines of Australia, Dominion Mining (subsequently Kingsgate Consolidation) and Doray Minerals, among others. Mr Bamford has also served on several boards during the last 25 years, including Maiden Gold, Heron Resources and Dominion Mining. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Bong Joo (Beejay) Kim is a professional project manager who has had a long career with Samsung C&T Corporation and Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company over 30 years. As a senior executive for Samsung C&T, Mr. Kim led projects in several countries and regions including the Middle East, Australia and South East Asia. This includes more recent positions of Vice President and Regional Representative of Saudi Arabia LLC and Head of MENA Regional Headquarters in the UAE for Samsung C&T. Mr. Kim's work has been in leading construction of infrastructure in various country includes 2 years in Australia where he set up Samsung C&T's Australian office and was heavily involved in several project tenders including the successful winning of a major iron ore infrastructure project in Western Australia. Mr Kim has formal qualifications in Business Administration, including leadership program's at UC Berkeley and Cornell University. He completed an MBA through Hyundai's Engineering and Construction company business school.

MSc, FSEG, FAIG

Doug Kirwin is an Australian geologist with over 45 years of international experience. His exploration teams have been responsible for several well-known mineral discoveries which are now being mined, the most notable being the Hugo Dummett ore body at the giant Oyu Tolgoi gold copper deposit in Mongolia developed by Rio Tinto. He was executive vice president of Ivanhoe Mines from 1995 to 2012 during which time Mr Kirwin's team was responsible for the epithermal gold-silver discoveries in South Korea (Eunsan, Moisan and Gasado Island, all of which became mines) among others. Mr Kirwin has been keen to more actively explore South Korea ever since.

Besides Hugo Dummett and the South Korean discoveries, Mr Kirwin's exploration group was responsible for the discovery of the Merlin Mo-Re deposit in Australia, the Ulugtau Au project in Kyrgyz Republic and several gold discoveries such as Hill 217 in China and Kerta, Jelai and Seruyung in Indonesia.

Mr Kirwin is and currently an independent consulting geologist. He has an MSc in mineral exploration from James Cook University where he is currently an adjunct professor of geology and he was President of the Society of Economic Geologists in 2019.

BA (International Economics)

Michael McNeilly is currently the CEO of AIM listed Metal Tiger Plc. Mr McNeilly  has extensive experience in listed companies and is currently Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Cobre Limited. He sits on several private company boards within the Metal Tiger group.

Past board appointments include MOD Resources Ltd (up to acquisition by Sandfire in November 2019), Metal Capital Ltd (until November 2018), Greatland  Gold Plc (until October 2017) and Connemara Mining Plc (until November 2019), among others. Mr McNeilly also has a deep understanding of the equity capital markets having worked at broking house Arden Partners Plc and Allenby Capital Ltd where he was part of their corporate finance teams during 2011-2015.

Mr McNeilly studied Biology at Imperial College London and has a BA in International Economics at the American University of Paris. He is fluent in French.

BA (Acc), CA, GIA (cert)

Ray Ridge is a chartered accountant with over 20 years accounting experience; he has held senior management positions in finance, compliance and commerce across a range of industries. He is currently CFO and Company Secretary for dual ASX- and AIM-listed Thor Mining PLC as well as CFO for ASX-listed Southern Gold Ltd. Mr. Ridge has broad corporate experience including previous appointments as General Manager Commercial & Operations with the Utilities, Government and Power Business Group of Parsons Brinckerhoff, CFO of the Merchandise Division of Elders Ltd and Senior Audit Manager at Arthur Andersen.

BSs (hons) MSc

Scott Randall has worked as a geologist in Brownfields and Greenfields exploration for the last 18 years. He has a B.Sc. (hons) From Otago University, NZ and a M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of Tasmania.

Mr Randall's work has been largely field based and in generative roles along with Brownfields experience at major operations with AGA Australia, Eldorado Gold China and Europe. He has significant international experience having worked in New Zealand, Australia, China, Asia Generative, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Kosovo. He has held a major role in discovery teams at several projects including WKP, Coromandel, NZ, QLT Deeps, Tanjianshan, China, KMC, Serbia, and Rise and Shine Shear, Otago

BSc MSc (hons) FSEG

Craig Panther is a professional geologist with over 27 years of exploration experience.  He has been involved with a wide range of commodities, including extensive work on low- and high-sulfidation epithermal gold-silver vein- and breccia-hosted targets, Carlin-type replacement gold deposits; porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum targets, related copper-gold (and distal basemetal ± gold) skarns, intermediate-sulfidation polymetal-gold vein- and breccia-hosted deposits, and he has also reviewed orogenic, VHMS and REE targets for numerous clients.

Mr Panther has worked throughout New Zealand, Indonesia, South Korea, the Republic of Mongolia, The Philippines, Fiji, The Peoples Republic of China, central Mexico, northern Peru and Papua New Guinea. 13 years of Mr Panther’s career consisted of work for Canada Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. throughout Asia, culminating in his management of Ivanhoe’s China exploration operations from 2004 till 2011.  Highlights include his active input into the Ivanhoe discovery and subsequent resource delineation drilling of the Southwest, Central and South Oyu porphyry copper-gold centres at Oyu Tolgoi (Turquoise Hill); plus input into the discovery and development of producing Eunsan, Moisan and Gasado low-sulfidation epithermal silver-gold vein deposits in South Korea.  

BSc

Nick Tate is a specialist consultant mapper of geology, alteration and mineralisation systems, particularly those related and peripheral to porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposits. Mr Tate has extensive international experience, including Australia, PNG, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Mongolia, Argentina, Armenia, USA (Nevada) & South Africa. Mr Tate has been involved in the discovery of several deposit types, including the Phu Kham porphyry-skarn Cu-Au deposit (Laos), Xayabouly ultramafic Pt Ni Co Cu deposit (Laos), Alpha porphyry breccia pipe (Mongolia), and Diablillos deep gold zones, Argentina - high sulphidation silver-gold deposit.