DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Keith Liddell - Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Commencing in 1980, Keith Liddell has built a reputation in the minerals industry as an experienced metallurgical engineer and resource company manager.
Keith's technical expertise extends to engineering of plant and equipment, process development, project management and risk planning. While Keith has particular experience in developing resource projects for the platinum group metals, base metals, gold, diamonds and industrial minerals, his engineering skills are applied across the board. Keith holds a number of patents to his name.
As the former Managing Director of Aquarius Platinum Limited, Keith established his competence in the management of resource companies. Utilising his skills in the development and implementation of corporate strategy, management of stakeholder relations, and arrangement of corporate and project finance, Aquarius successfully acquired, financed and developed a number of platinum projects in South Africa including the Kroondal Platinum Mine.
As representative of Mineral Securities, Keith is Non Executive Chairman of CopperCo Limited, Tianshan Goldfields Limited and Executive Deputy Chairman of Platmin Limited.
Keith has a BSc (Minerals Engineering), MSc (Engineering) and is a registered Professional Engineer in Australia , South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Hon John Moore AO - Independent Non-executive
John Moore holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Associate in Accountancy from the University of Queensland. John has had a distinguished career in politics; he was the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Industry, Science & Tourism and Vice President of the Executive Council. Prior to entering politics, John was a stockbroker and member of the Brisbane Stock Exchange for 12 years. He has served on the boards of many broking and banking related companies including Citinational Limited, Merrill Lynch (Aust) Pty Ltd and Grindlays (Aust) Pty Ltd.
THE MANAGEMENT TEAM
David Hillier
David Hillier has been associated with mining and mining investments for over 30 years. David is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and his responsibilities have covered the financial, commercial and legal aspects of operations in a vast majority of the major mining provinces outside of China and Northern Europe.
Following a number of years in the accounting profession serving major resource companies, David has held a number of senior financial positions in Australian mining companies, most notably over 15 years as a Senior Finance Executive at Normandy Mining. He has held operational responsibilities and served as both an Executive and Non-Executive Director of numerous publicly listed companies. David is currently Executive Chairman of the listed subsidiary Buka Gold Limited.
Jamie Armes
Jamie Armes joined Mineral Securities in 2004 as Group Accountant and is responsible for financial reporting, taxation, company secretarial and transaction support for Mineral Securities as well as Tianshan Goldfields. Jamie is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Business from the University of Tasmania. Jamie has experience within the accounting profession including accounting, taxation and audit within the profession as well as acting as company secretary for a number of listed companies. Jamie acts as Group Financial Controller and Australian company secretary based in Perth, Western Australia.
Michael Bohm is a graduate of the WA School of Mines in Kalgoorlie and has over 21 years experience in the gold, nickel and diamond sectors of the minerals industry in Australia, SE Asia, North America, Europe and Southern Africa.
Following a period in Indonesia with Billiton in the early nineties, Mike spent nine years with Ashton Mining Limited and 3 1/2 years with Sally Malay Mining prior to joining Mineral Securities Limited in August 2005.
In addition to his mine management, project evaluation and project development experience, which includes direct involvement with five green-fields mine start-ups, Mike has held various corporate roles including previous directorships at Sally Malay Mining Limited (ASX listed) and Ashton Mining of Canada (TSE listed) and was a member of the Argyle Diamond Mines Joint Venture Committee. Mike is the MD Asia Pacific for Mineral Securities.
Ken Rogers - Chief Geologist
Ken Rogers is a highly experienced geologist, with particular interest in gold, base metals and fluorite projects. (Ken has an extensive background in the Speewah fluorite project now owned by Mineral Securities.)
As Geologist for the Rogers and Roe Prospecting Syndicate, Ken worked on the Youanmi gold tailings operation and Youanmi gold mine, as well as the Gidgee gold mine. During this time, Ken was responsible for researching remote sensing techniques as an aid to exploration, and developing software programmes for displaying images on microcomputers.
Ken was also the Chief Geologist, Exploration Manager and later, Director for Elmina NL.
Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology (Honours) and a Diploma in Education. He is also member of Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Registered Chartered Engineer, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, Society of Economic Geologists, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Association of Australia Ltd.
Shiming Li
He is Chief Representative of the Group's Beijing office and represents the Group on the Qixia joint venture.
