Directors & Management

Mr Kim W McGrath

BEc(Hons) LLB FAICD FTIA CPA

Experience

Executive Chairman, age 58

Mr McGrath is an internationally experienced resources finance and investment banking executive.

He is the Managing Director of Delta Corporate Finance Pty Limited a specialist advisory group based in Sydney with active business interests in Australia and the UK.

His prior positions in Australia have included legal roles with Comalco and ICL, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Bank of America Australia, General Counsel with Bell Resources responsible for negotiating international lines of finance and business acquisitions, and in strategy and development as General Manager, Strategy and Planning with Industrial Equity.

During the mid 1990’s Mr McGrath was based in London and worked on the restructure of companies in eastern Europe and particularly on major operations in CIS metals and oil trading, and associated financing in both London and Geneva.

Since returning to Australia in 1998, Mr McGrath continues to hold full practising certificates as a Solicitor in both England and Wales and in Victoria, as well as holding Australian accounting qualifications as a CPA.  He has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors where he has successfully completed their Company Directors Course Diploma.  Mr McGrath is the former chairman of ASX listed Redbank Mines Limited and former chairman of ASX listed Strategic Energy Resources Ltd. He is also a director of CVC Property Managers Limited.

Mr Neil F Doyle

BEng MEngSc MSPE, MSME

Experience

Director and Chief Executive Officer, age 58

Neil Doyle is an energy specialist with both significant upstream and investment banking experience in the sector.

He is a qualified engineer with post-graduate qualifications in geomechanics (Monash University) with significant operations experience covering both the upstream (onshore and offshore) oil and gas sector notably with BHP Petroleum & Esso Exploration and Production Australia and also in the downstream refining products / LPG sector with Shell Australia.  Subsequently, he has held senior management roles at commercial, technical and business development levels with a number of diversified resources groups and investment banks – specialising in energy related merger and acquisition and capital raising transactions.

Since the early 1990’s he has over 13 years experience in energy-related financial markets including investment banking and corporate finance.  This experience included all aspects of equity capital raisings, project finance, resources deal structuring – including international cross-border transactions and both initiating and advising on significant mergers and acquisitions within the energy sector within Australia and New Zealand.  In the later capacity his last role prior to leaving JPMorgan in 2002, was as Senior Vice President in the Energy Mergers and Acquisitions department and a member of their Global Energy Investment Banking Team.

Previously, Mr Doyle has had ASX listed public company experience within the junior resources sector at Managing Director level prior to joining Patersons Securities Limited in March 2004 to December 2010, as Director Corporate Finance based in Melbourne.  Mr Doyle has been a continuous Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, USA since 1981.

Mr Nigel Harvey

BA (Hons)

Experience

Non-Executive Director, age 56

Mr Harvey has worked two decades in the financial and commodity markets for the international energy banks The Chase Manhattan Bank, Barclays Bank and JPMorganChase (Director - Head of Asia Pacific Energy Derivatives) and more recently Macquarie Bank (Division Director - Energy Markets). He worked initially in credit and corporate finance but mainly in treasury divisions.  There he gained extensive crude oil and energy products markets, derivatives, risk management and wider commodity and financial derivatives and markets experience.   He focussed on delivering tailored risk management and hedging solutions for producers, airlines and other clients across the Asia Pacific.  He has since developed an independent market risk consulting practice.  His previous background of almost a decade in business journalism covering the Middle East, its oil sector and related topics equipped him with strong industry knowledge. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Ms Melanie J Leydin

B.Bus CA

Experience

Ms Leydin is a Chartered Accountant and principal in a chartered accounting firm specialising in audit and company secretarial services.  Ms Leydin has 15 years experience in the accounting profession and is a director and company secretary for a number of junior mining and exploration entities listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Mr Justin Mouchacca

B.Bus CA

Mr Geoff Geary

B.Sc (Geology), MPESA

Experience

Geoff Geary is a consultant petroleum geologist (formerly with Oil Company of Australia and Mobil Oil) of 26 years standing and has a Technical Services Agreement through his company Focus on Australia Pty Ltd.  He has had significant experience in company mergers, acquisitions, acreage promotion and farmouts in his career, both with smaller national companies and with major multi-nationals.  He is experienced in sedimentary basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, structural geology, seismic interpretation, basin modeling and oil and gas field evaluation and development.