Directors and Management
Mr Justin Barton
Managing Director
Mr Barton is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience in accounting, international finance, M&A and the mining industry. He worked for over 13 years in the Big 4 Accounting firms in Australia and Europe and advised many of the worlds largest mining, oil & gas companies and financial institutions, including Rio Tinto, Chevron, Macquarie, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Deutche Bank. Justin also worked for 4 years at Paladin Energy Limited as Group Tax and Finance Manager and advised on their plant construction and mining operations in Africa and their expansion into Canada. More recently, he has worked as the CFO and been a Board Member of a number of junior exploration companies. Mr Barton is currently a Board member of Eneabba Gas Limited and Interposed Holdings Limited.
Mr Roger Steinepreis
Non-Executive Director
Mr Steinepreis is a lawyer and Executive Chairman of Perth based Steinepreis Paganin. He has practiced as a lawyer for over 25+ years, acting as legal advisor to a number of public companies, particularly in the energy and resources sector, on a wide range of corporate matters. Mr Steinepreis was also recently Non-Executive Chairman of Apollo Consolidated Limited which was subject to a successful takeover by Ramelius Resources Limited in 2021, and is also a Director of Clearvue Technologies Limited and Meeka Metals Limited.
Mr Steven Wood
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Wood has over 15 years of corporate advisory, governance and financial compliance experience in the mining and resources sector. Mr Wood was recently a Director of Grange Consulting Group Pty Ltd until it was acquired by Automic Group, where he is currently a principal and specialises in providing corporate advisory, governance, and financial compliance consulting services to a number of ASX listed and unlisted entities. Mr Wood is currently Non-Executive Director of Uvre Ltd and Company Secretary for a number of ASX listed entities including Caspin Resources Ltd and Rumble Resources Ltd.
Mr Steve Vallance
Executive Technical Director
Mr Vallance has over 35 years’ experience in exploration and mining, spanning greenfields exploration through to production assets across a broad range of commodities. Most notably, he served as Chief Exploration Geologist for Jubilee Mines, where he co-led the team that discovered and delineated several major nickel deposits at the Cosmos Nickel Operations in Western Australia, including the Cosmos, Tapinos, Prospero and Sinclair nickel sulphide deposits. In recent years, Mr Vallance has provided technical consultancy services to a number of exploration companies, including Arika, where he has played an integral role in shaping and refining the Company’s exploration approach to its key WA gold projects over the past 8 months.
Ms Kate Breadmore
Chief Financial Officer
Ms Breadmore is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and has over 18 years of experience in a range of financial roles with Australian and international companies. Ms Breadmore also holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance issued by the Governance Institute of Australia.
Mr Aaron Gates
Company Secretary
Mr Gates has over 15 years’ experience as CFO and Company Secretary of public listed companies. He is a Chartered Accountant, has completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Curtin University) with majors in accounting and business law and completed a Diploma of Corporate Governance. Prior to working for public listed companies he worked in public practice in audit and corporate finance roles.