Directors and Management
Michael Haynes - Chairman
Michael Haynes has more than 15 years experience in the international mineral exploration industry. Mr. Haynes graduated from the University of Western Australia with an honours degree in geology and geophysics and has explored for a wide variety of ore deposit styles throughout Australia and extensively in North America, South East and Central Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.
Mr. Haynes has held technical positions with both BHP Minerals and Billiton plc. He ran his own successful consulting business for a number of years providing professional geophysical and exploration services to both junior and major resource companies. He has worked extensively on project generation and acquisition throughout his career.
Mr Haynes is the Managing Director of Black Range Minerals Limited, one of the founders and Chairman of Overland Resources Limited and one of the founders and Directors of Iberian Resources Limited.
Michael Fowler - Managing Director/CEO
Michael Fowler is a geologist with 18 years industry experience. Mr Fowler graduated from Curtin University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree majoring in geology and in 1999 received a Master of Science majoring in Ore Deposit Geology from the University of Western Australia. On graduating he explored for gold and base metals for Dominion Mining in the Murchison, Gascoyne and Eastern Goldfields Regions of Western Australia.
In 1996, Mr Fowler joined Croesus Mining NL and was made Exploration Manager in 1997. He oversaw all exploration for Croesus until June 2004 and was then appointed Business Development Manager and subsequently Managing Director in October 2005. Mr Fowler has been responsible for the discovery and development of several significant gold deposits. He has been intimately involved in a number of significant acquisitions and project reviews. Mr Fowler is the Exploration Manager for Castle Minerals, and was a Non-Executive Director of Azure Minerals Limited until August 2007.
Graeme Smith - Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary
Graeme Smith is a finance professional with over 20 years experience in accounting and company administration. He graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Economics and has been granted a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Commercial Law. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators.
Mr Smith has held CFO and Company Secretary positions with Croesus Mining NL, Centralian Minerals Limited and most recently was Chief Financial Officer for Jabiru Metals Limited. Previously he held senior management roles with international mining contractor Eltin Ltd, Elders Resources Ltd and has also worked for other Australian mining and mining service companies.
