Directors and Management
Standing left to right (Jon Hronsky, Peter Bewick and Kevin Hart)
Seated left to right (Paul Chapman and Will Robinson)
Mr. Paul Chapman
B.Comm, ACA, Grad. Dip. Tax, CFTP(Snr), MAICD, SA Fin
Non Executive Chairman
Mr Paul Chapman is a chartered accountant with over twenty years experience in the resources sector gained in Australia and the United States. Mr Chapman has experience across a range of commodity businesses including gold, nickel, uranium, manganese, bauxite/alumina and oil/gas. Mr Chapman has held managing director and other senior management roles in public companies of various sizes and is the chairman of ASX listed gold producer Sliver Lake Resources Ltd and minerals explorer Rex Minerals Ltd.
Mr. Will Robinson
B.Comm, MAusIMM
Managing Director
Mr Will Robinson is a resources industry commercial and finance specialist with over thirteen years experience in commercial management, transaction structuring and negotiation, business strategy development and London Metals Exchange metals trading. Mr Robinson held various senior commercial positions with WMC in Australia and North America from 1994 until 2003. During his time with WMC he was instrumental in the success of the Kambalda nickel mine outsourcing strategy as the Commercial Manager of the Kambalda Nickel Operations. Mr Robinson has extensive experience in the sale and distribution of commodities and was Vice President - Marketing for WMC's nickel business from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, Mr Robinson formed a consulting company which advised numerous mining companies with interests in Australia, South America and Africa. Mr Robinson founded Encounter Resources Ltd in 2004 and has overseen the development of the company as its Managing Director.
Mr. Peter Bewick
B.Eng (Hons), MAusIMM
Exploration Director
Mr Peter Bewick is an experienced geologist and has held a number of senior mine and exploration geological roles during a fourteen year career with WMC. These roles include Exploration Manager and Geology Manager of the Kambalda Nickel Operations, Exploration Manager for St Ives Gold Operation and Exploration Manager for WMC's Nickel Business Unit. Most recently he held the position of Exploration Manager for North America based in Denver, Colorado. Whilst at WMC, Mr Bewick gained extensive experience in project generation for a range of commodities including nickel, gold and bauxite. Mr Bewick has been associated with a number of brownfields exploration successes at Kambalda and with the greenfield Collurabbie Ni-Cu-PGE discovery.
Dr. Jon Hronsky
BAppSci, PhD, MAusIMM, FSEG
Non Executive Director
Dr. Jon Hronsky has more than twenty three years of experience in the mineral exploration industry, primarily focused on project generation, technical innovation and exploration strategy development. Dr. Hronsky has particular expertise in targeting for nickel sulfide deposits, but has worked across a diverse range of commodities. His work led to the discovery of the West Musgrave nickel sulfide province in Western Australia. Dr. Hronsky was most recently Manager-Strategy & Generative Services for BHP Billiton Mineral Exploration. Prior to that, he was Global Geoscience Leader for WMC Resources Ltd.
Company Secretary
Mr Kevin Hart
B.Comm, ACA
Mr Hart is a chartered accountant and has over 20 years experience in accounting and the management and administration of public listed entities in the mining and exploration industry. He is a partner in an advisory firm which specialises in the provision of company secretarial services to ASX listed entities.
