Board of Directors
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Reginald Gillard(Non-Executive Chairman)Reginald Gillard brings more than 30 years' experience in accounting and corporate finance to the board. He has extensive experience and significant expertise in the evaluation and acquisition of businesses requiring development capital, initial public offerings, rights issues and placements, together with ongoing funding corporate governance and compliance issues of listed public companies. Mr Gillard is also Chairman of Platina Resources Ltd and former Chairman of Aspen Group Ltd. Mr Gillard is a Fellow of the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
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Jeff Quartermaine(Managing Director)Jeff Quartermaine has more than 25 years' experience in senior financial and strategic management roles with ASX and TSX-listed resources companies. He is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) who holds both business management (MBA) and engineering qualifications (BE). Mr Quartermaine was previously Chief Financial Officer of Perseus from 2010 - 2013. He has been a significant contributor to the team advancing Perseus’s Edikan Gold Project in Ghana to production and preparing the Sissingué Gold Project, Cote d’Ivoire, for a development decision. Mr Quartermaine was appointed Managing Director in January 2013. |
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Colin Carson(Executive Director)Colin Carson has been involved as a director of numerous Australian public companies since the 1980s. He is currently a director of Manas Resources Ltd and Equus Mining (formerly Caspian Oil and Gas). He oversees joint venture negotiations and corporate and legal matters for Perseus. He is experienced with the taxation and mining laws in West Africa. |
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Rhett Brans(Executive Director)Rhett Brans qualified as a civil engineer at what is now known as Monash University in 1974 and completed an advanced management program at the University of Melbourne in 1991. Mr Brans has operated a consultancy providing project management services to the mining industry for the past 20 years. In this capacity, he has managed the development of gold and base metal projects. His experience extends across the full range from mining feasibility studies through to commissioning operations. Mr Brans has more than 35 years' experience in the design and construction of mineral treatment facilities. Mr Brans is also a non-executive director of Tiger Resources Ltd. |
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Neil Fearis(Non-Executive Director)Neil Fearis has 34 years' experience as a commercial lawyer in the UK and Australia. For 13 years he was a partner in one of Australia's largest national law firms. In 1999, he formed a niche firm specialising in the provision of corporate and commercial legal advice to listed public companies. He now consults to the national law firm Minter Ellison and practises principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, public flotations, and other forms of capital raising. Mr Fearis is a member of several professional bodies associated with commerce and the law, including the Law Council of Australia, the International Bar Association, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Tiger Resources Limited and a non-executive director Carnarvon Petroleum Limited and Magma Metals Limited (ASX-listed companies). |
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Sean Harvey(Non-Executive Director)In a management capacity, Sean Harvey has served as President and CEO of Orvana Minerals Inc., TXV Gold Inc. (through its sale to Kinross in 2003) and Atlantico Gold through sale of its Amapari Project to Wheaton River Minerals (now Goldcorp) in 2004. |
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Michael Bohm(Non-Executive Director)Michael Bohm is an experienced mining professional with extensive corporate, project and operational management experience in the minerals industry in Australia, South East Asia, southern Africa, Chile, Canada, Europe and the UK. A graduate of the WA School of Mines, Mr Bohm has worked as a mining engineer, mine manager, study manager, project manager and project director and has been directly involved in a number of project developments in the gold, nickel and diamond sectors both in Australia and other parts of the world. |
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Susmit Shah(Company Secretary)Susmit Shah is a chartered accountant and has been involved as a director and company secretary of various Australian public companies for many years. He consults to public companies on a variety of matters including stock exchange requirements, joint venture negotiations and corporate fundraising. |

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