Directors & Management

Directors

Dean Hely

Non-Executive Chairman

Mr Hely is the managing partner of the independent West Australian legal firm Lavan and a partner in the corporate and reconstruction group. Mr Hely has more than 27 years’ experience working in corporate reconstruction, insolvency and commercial litigation.

Mr Hely was admitted as a partner of Lavan’s predecessor firm, Phillips Fox Perth, in 1999, deputy managing partner of that firm and then of Lavan from 2002 to 2013, and became managing partner of Lavan in 2013. In 2016, Mr Hely and others established Quadrant Advisory, a debt advisory practice that assists clients ranging from mid-sized companies though to ASX listed companies with their debt requirements.

Dean is a board member of the not for profit organisations Rugby WA, the Australian Institute of Management WA and Youth Focus.

Simon Lawson

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Lawson is a professional geoscientist with more than 15 years’ experience spanning multiple commodities and jurisdictions and was a founding team member of Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST).

Currently Mr Lawson is the Managing Director of ASX-listed Gascoyne Resources (ASX: GCY), a West-Australian gold-producer, and has personally visited and reviewed the acquired Canadian gold properties.

Kelvin Flynn

Non-Executive Director

Mr Flynn is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in investment banking and corporate advisory roles including financing, M&A, private equity and special situations investments in the mining and resources sector.

He has held various leadership positions in Australia and Asia, having previously held the position of Executive Director/Vice President with Goldman Sachs and Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal in Asia. He is the Executive Chairman of Harvis, which is a specialist private lender and corporate advisory firm in Western Australia.

Kelvin (via Harvis) advised on Wildcat’s acquisition of Tabba Tabba, is a previous ~14 year director of Mineral Resources Limited (ASX: MIN), a 13 year director of Global Advanced Metals Pty Ltd and is currently a non-executive director of Red 5 Limited. Prior to Red 5’s recent merger with Silver Lake Resources (ASX: SLR), Kelvin had been a director of Silver Lake for 8.5 years.

Alex Hewlett

Non-Executive Director

Mr Hewlett is a qualified geologist who is highly skilled at project identification and acquisition. Previously Chairman of Spectrum Metals Limited, Mr Hewlett oversaw its growth from mid-2018 to being taken over by established goldminer Ramelius Resources Ltd in early 2020.

More recently, Mr Hewlett led the identification and acquisition of Tabba Tabba (from GAM owned by RCF) for Wildcat Resources Limited and the acquisition and development of the Mt Ida project (from Ora Banda) for Delta Lithium Limited.

Management

Charles Hughes

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Hughes is a professional geologist with 17 years of experience in the resources industry, during which time he has held executive positions at Delta Lithium and senior management positions at Bellevue Gold, Northern Star and Saracen. Mr Hughes is highly skilled at identifying growth opportunities, developing and leading aggressive resource growth and development strategies, and delivering results.

More recently, Mr Hughes has overseen more than 400km of drilling across multiple development projects in the last 3 years with Delta Lithium defining >40Mt of Li2O resource and >750koz of high grade gold resources as well as driving mining permitting, and mining and processing feasibility studies.

Mark Rozlapa

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Rozlapa is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience, including more than 15 years for listed mining companies across the exploration, feasibility, construction and production phases.

Mr Rozlapa previously held senior finance roles across a broad range of commodities and jurisdictions including Sandfire Resources Limited, Ramelius Resources Limited and IGO Ltd. He has experience in project financing and the implementation of processes and systems to support resource growth and development strategies.

Mr Rozlapa holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law degrees from University of WA, commenced his carrier in professional practice at KPMG and is a member of the Chartered Accounts Australia and New Zealand.’

Jennifer Neild

Chief Development Officer

Ms. Neild is a resources executive with more than 18 years’ experience in exploration across a broad range of commodities in various jurisdictions. She was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Peak Minerals Limited (ASX: PUA).

Ms. Neild holds a Bachelors Degree in Geology (Hons) from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and a Masters Degree in Geophysics from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She has previously held senior positions in exploration, resource geology and production geology in both Australia and Canada with Newmont Australia and Falconbridge Ltd, as well as General Manager – Interpretation for expert geophysics group HiSeis Pty Ltd.

Ms. Neild’s geological and geophysics expertise in both Western Australia and Canada, combined with her corporate and executive experience in the resources industry, means she is ideally placed to drive the exploration at the Company’s Labyrinth and Comet Vale projects.

Matt Crowe

Exploration Manager

Mr. Crowe is an experienced exploration geologist with 20 years’ experience working for major and junior companies across a broad range of commodities in the Western Australian resources industry; including Principal Geologist at BHP, and Chief Operating Officer/Exploration Manager at Dreadnought Resources.

He has extensive experience leading both greenfields and brownfields exploration teams which included discoveries in copper, gold, nickel, iron ore, rare earths and niobium. In 2023 he was co-recipient of AMEC’s Prospector Award for the Yin REE discovery which involved a period of rapid exploration and resource definition following the initial discovery.

Kelly Moore

Company Secretary

Ms Moore is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Chartered Company Secretary and Director at Meridian Corporate Consultants, with extensive experience in senior financial and governance advisory roles. Having previously held senior roles providing corporate accounting and governance services to a wide range of entities, Ms Moore has gained a wealth of experience in the financial reporting and compliance requirements of companies, both listed and unlisted.

Ms Moore previously worked in audit and assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers Perth, which has provided her with additional experience in the preparation of financial statements and a detailed knowledge of both ASIC and ASX compliance requirements. Ms Moore holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of WA majoring in Accounting and Finance and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.