Bondi Mining Directors and
Management Bios.
Directors:
Simon O'Loughlin
BA (Acc)
Non-Executive Chairman
Simon O'Loughlin is the founding member
of O'Loughlins Lawyers, an Adelaide based, medium sized specialist
commercial law firm. For many years he has practised, both in Sydney
and Adelaide, in the corporate and commercial fields with, in more
recent times, a particular focus on the resources sector. He also holds
accounting qualifications. He is currently the Chairman of Living
Cell Technologies Limited and WCP Resources Ltd. He is also a director of Petratherm Ltd, Chesser Resources Ltd, Probiomics Ltd and Aura Energy Ltd. He has extensive
experience and involvement with companies in the small industrial and resources
sectors. He has also been involved in the listing and back-door listing
of numerous companies on the ASX and the National Stock Exchange. He is
a former Chairman of the Taxation Institute of Australia (SA Division) and
Save the Children Fund (SA Division).
Richard Valenta
BSc, PhD, P.Geo (ON,NL),
MAUSIMM
Managing Director
Dr. Rick Valenta has a wealth of experience in
the resources sector having spent the last 25 years employed in various
roles in North America, Central America and Australia. Most recently
Rick played a key role with the highly successful, Canadian based,
Fronteer Group, where he was Chief Operating Officer and Vice President
Exploration of Fronteer Development Group (“Fronteer”)
and Chief Geoscientist of Aurora Energy Resources Inc (“Aurora”).
During that time the approximate market capitalisations of these companies
increased from CDN$11 million to CDN$980 million and CDN$216 million
to CDN$1 billion respectively. This reflected the success of Rick’s
team in making significant new discoveries and increasing resources – from
no resources to 2.1 million ounces of gold (in the case of Fronteer)
and 96 million lbs of uranium (in the case of Aurora).
Over the past 10
years, he has directed exploration expenditure of US$40 million, resulting
in the discovery of resources with a total in-ground value of US$8 billion.
He has carried out successful region selection and project generation
on six continents, seeking a range of base metal, gold and uranium target
styles and environments. He led the Central American exploration of a
major Australian Mining Company (MIM), resulting in two important mineral
discoveries. He has developed strong and productive relationships with
community and indigenous stakeholders in Canada, Mexico and Australia
leading to increased exploration access.
Rick Valenta is also Managing Director
of Chesser Resources Ltd.
Creagh O’Connor
BEc, LLB, ACA
Non-Executive Director
Creagh O’Connor is a founding director of specialist resource investment bank, Gryphon Partners Pty Ltd. Recent advisory assignments undertaken by Gryphon include: Oxiana Ltd’s A$ 11 billion merger with Zinifex Ltd; Lion selection Ltd’s successful defence of the Indophil Resources NL takeover; Oxiana Ltd’s A$265 million acquisition of the Golden Grove base and precious metals operation in western Australia; Oxiana’s A$415 million takeover of Agincourt Resources; the initial public offering of (uranium company) Toro
Energy Limited; the A$80 million acquisition of (gold company) Sedimentary
Holdings Limited by AuSelect Limited; and Agincourt Resources Limited’s
US$80 million acquisition of the Martabe gold project.
Prior to establishing Gryphon Partners Pty Ltd, Creagh was employed by the Normandy Mining Company in a variety of roles including Group General Manager of Business Development for Normandy Mining Ltd, having joined in 1993. Prior to this, he spent 13 years specialising in corporate finance, advisory roles and providing general financial advice in Australia and Europe. Creagh has held numerous directorships of resource companies, and was a founding director of Hindmarsh Resources Limited until it was taken over by Canadian listed Mega Uranium Ltd. He is currently a director of Chesser Resources Ltd.
Management:
David Esser
BSc (Hons)
Exploration Manager
David brings over 16 years of exploration experience to Bondi, mostly spent with Placer Pacific in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, Northeast Queensland, Southeast Queensland, the Mount Isa region and Papua New Guinea. David led the exploration teams that were responsible for the discovery of the Mt Dimer gold orebody near Southern Cross WA, and the Kulthor copper-gold resource near Osborne in the Mount Isa region, and was also part of teams that successfully expanded the resources of Porgera, Kidston, Misima, Osborne and Granny Smith. He has a wealth of experience in management of exploration programs from greenfields to resource stage, as well as a solid background in safety, environment, and liaison with local stakeholders and JV partners.
Kerry Angel
Company Secretary
