Directors and Management
DIRECTORS
Roderick Brown
Chairman
Mr Brown is a mining engineer by profession and has extensive experience in general management. He has held various senior management positions including Managing Director, with companies involved in the engineering, mining and industrial service sectors across Australia, USA and Europe. Mr Brown has also 20 years' experience as Company Director and is currently Chairman of RCR Tomlinson and Chairman of Immersive Technologies.
Christopher Gale
Managing Director
Mr Gale is an experienced executive in both public and private sectors having founded and managed a number of businesses over a twenty year period. He has significant executive management experience and a unique combination of commercial, finance and natural resources management skills. In 2008 he established the company Peruvian Latin Resources SAC in Peru, South America.
Mark Rowbottam
Non-executive Director
Mr Rowbottam is an experienced corporate executive, advisor and company director. Mr Rowbottam has undergraduate science qualifications and a Master of Business Administration with specialities in corporate administration and marketing. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute of Australia and active member of Chartered Secretaries Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr Rowbottam has more than 15 years’ experience in the corporate financial arena and has been involved in numerous ASX capital raisings, mergers/acquisitions and corporate transactions in the mineral and energy sectors. He is currently also a director of ASX listed GRP Corporation Limited.
David Vilensky
Non-executive Director
Mr Vilensky is a practising solicitor and managing partner of Perth law firm Bowen Buchbinder Vilensky. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of corporate and business law and in commercial and corporate management. Mr Vilensky is also regarded as a specialist on Trade Practice Law and has written a number of published articles on this subject. Mr Vilensky acts for a number of listed and resource companies and is the chairman of Zambezi Resources Ltd, an ASX listed advanced exploration company focusing on copper and other mining and resource projects in Zambia.
Zane Lewis
Company Secretary
Mr Lewis has over 20 years experience and leadership of smallcap multinational companies. His hands on skillset includes the financial management of $20m+ group of companies in USA, Europe, Hong Kong, China and Australia as well as the management and leadership of a staff of 80. Mr Lewis recently completed the successful and timely M&A of his private software company Commtech Wireless Inc to American investors.
Mr Lewis graduated UWA with a Bachelor of Economics, with a major in Corporate Law and is currently undertaking a post grad diploma as a Chartered Company Secretary.
MANAGEMENT
Andrew Bristow
General Manager (Peruvian Latin Resources)
Andrew Bristow -Bachelor of Applied Science in geology and chemistry from the Queensland University of Technology, a first class Honours degree in Geochemistry from the James Cook University of North Queensland, a Master of Management from Tulane University (USA) and an MBA from the CENTRUM business school of the Peruvian Catholic University.
Andrew has 19 years professional experience in the Mining and Environment industries in Australia, Africa and Latin America including almost 10 years based in Peru. He has diverse multi-disciplinary experience related to the exploration and development of gold, porphyry copper and placer deposits and is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and a Fellow of the Association of Applied Geochemists.
Geoff Blackburn O.A.M
Consulting Geologist
Mr Geoff Blackburn O.A.M. is a practising consulting geologist who graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Applied Science and has spent more than 40 successful years in the mineral exploration industry being responsible for or implicated in the discovery of a large number of mineral deposits. He has had a wide range of experience with a wide range of commodities both within Western Australia and in many overseas countries including two years working in Peru. A former President of the Australian Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC), he has also served on numerous advisory boards for Government and Tertiary Educational Institutions. In 2004 he was presented with an award as Prospector of the Year and was awarded his O.A.M for services to the Mining Industry on Australia Day 2006.
Mr Blackburn was instrumental in identifying the Guadalupito Iron Sands Project for Latin Resources and was involved in the early exploration of the Ilo Iron Project in the south of Peru. He has been retained to advise the company on the continuing exploration and development of the Guadalupito Iron Sands Project.