Pnina Feldman – Executive Chairperson
Pnina was the founding Chairperson of Australian Gold Investments Limited (now Queensland Bauxite Limited). Throughout her extensive 20-year involvement in the mineral exploration industry, Pnina has consistently demonstrated a world-class aptitude for sourcing, negotiating and developing exploration and resource projects both locally and internationally. She has successfully negotiated many joint ventures with major companies including BHP and De Beers, and was also the founder and Executive Chairperson of the publicly-listed Diamond Rose NL. Pnina studied Law and Arts at Melbourne University before attending Gateshead, England, where she studied teaching, religion and education. She has been the founder of numerous communal, educational, charitable and women’s awareness initiatives, and in 2007 received the Wentworth community award for outstanding community service.
Sholom Feldman – Executive Director
Sholom was a founding director of Australian Gold Investments Limited (now Queensland Bauxite Limited) and its CEO and Company Secretary from inception in 2007. Sholom has extensive general commercial management experience and has performed considerable management and company secretarial work for both listed and unlisted companies. Having previously held the position of General Manager with publicly listed Diamond Rose NL between 1999 and 2005, he currently holds the positions of director and manager with a number of public and private companies including being the managing director and secretary of US listed Volcan Holdings Inc, a company he co-founded. Sholom has also been instrumental in negotiating, financing, sourcing, developing and managing many exploration projects internationally in a wide varied range of both precious and bulk commodities ranging from diamonds and sapphires to iron ore. Amongst these many projects were the purchases of the Guanaco Gold-Copper Mine in Chile from the Canadian Kinross Gold Corporation and subsequently purchasing Kinross’ portfolio of Australian gold assets, the sale to Murchison Metals of the Rocklea iron ore project, and directing and managing Volcan’s and QBL’s identification, acquisition and development of their large bauxite exploration portfolio. He studied at the International MBA program at Bar Ilan University in Israel and has also completed a Company Secretarial Practice and Meetings course with the Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries Australia.
Russell Williams - Non-Executive Director
Russell is a qualified mechanical engineer with over 30 years experience in the bauxite and alumina industry, in various roles for Alcoa Inc. In his final three years with Alcoa, Russell was President of Boke Services, the managing company of Company Bauxite de Guinee (CBG) (Alcoa JV), and in that role was responsible for all activity at the operation that ships over 13 million tonnes of bauxite per year. Prior to this role, Russell was involved in all aspects of bauxite production for Alcoa Inc ranging from exploration through to project development and operations. He managed the West Australian bauxite mining operations at the Huntly Mine which in 1999 was producing 11 million tonnes of bauxite per year and is now producing in excess of 23 million tones. He then had oversight of all of Alcoa’s global mining activity in Brazil, Jamaica and Suriname, During this period he was also responsible for the initial development and growth of the bauxite resource of the Juruti bauxite mine in Brazil which was commissioned two years ago and now ships 4 million tonnes of bauxite per year.
Paul Stephenson – Non-Executive Director
Paul holds degrees in law and the arts and is a partner with Australian national law firm, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. Specialising in the areas of public and private fundraising, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies, he has acted for companies listed in multiple jurisdictions. Possessing an extensive array of experience, he has acted on behalf of companies in industry sectors including mining and resources, financial markets, pay TV retailing, mobile telephony, automated teller machines and listed investment companies and trusts.
Mark Derriman – Chief Operations Officer
Mark is a qualified geologist with 25-years’ industry experience, Mark has managed numerous gold, copper, nickel, iron ore and coal exploration programs from the conceptual studies phase through to the resource drilling stage. A member and former committee member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, his career to date has seen him work for companies including Peko Wallsend, Ashton Gold, Normandy Mining, Mincor Nickel and Aquila Resources. As an integral part of exploration-development teams, Mark has been involved in the delineation of over 1M ounces of gold resources in Western Australia as well as the establishment of an iron ore portfolio for Aquila Resources through tenement applications and joint ventures.
Dr Robert Coenraads – Principal Project Geologist
Robert is a qualified geologist, geophysicist and gemologist with over 30-years’ experience in the field of international exploration and mining. He has written four internationally published books on geology and has also penned 40 scientific papers and numerous independent and company reports. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Australia (GAA). He completed his Ph.D. at Macquarie University, Sydney, his Diploma in Gemmology at the GAA, his M.Sc. at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and his BA(Hons.) in geology and geophysics at Macquarie University.
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