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. Simon was a founding Director of Hindmarsh
Resources Limited until it was recently taken over by Canadian listed
Mega Uranium Ltd. He is also a former director of Gowit Limited (now
called Agincourt Resources Limited) and is currently the Chairman of Living
Cell Technologies Limited and WCP Diversified Investments Ltd, and is a
Director of Petratherm Limited and Chesser Resources 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 Newcastle 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
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 a boutique investment bank, Gryphon Partners Pty Limited, specialising
in resource and energy transactions. Recent advisory assignments undertaken
by Gryphon Partners Pty Limited include: Oxiana Limited’s A$265 million
acquisition of the Golden Grove base and precious metals operation in
Western Australia; 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 Limited, Creagh was employed by the Normandy Mining Group in a variety of roles including Managing Director of Australian Magnesium Corporation Limited and Group General Manager of Business Development for Normandy Mining Limited 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. This included working with companies such as Bain & Company Inc., Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited and Price Waterhouse Limited. Creagh has held numerous directorships of resource companies, and was a founding director of Hindmarsh Resources Limited until it was recently taken over by Canadian listed Mega Uranium Ltd. He is currently a director of Chesser Resources Ltd.
Simon Taylor
BSc, MAIG, GCertAppFin(Finsia)
Non-Executive Director
Simon Taylor is a geologist with 17 years
experience throughout Australia in gold, base metals and nickel having
held senior geologist and exploration manager positions for numerous
ASX listed resource companies. He has gained considerable experience
in exploration, project assessment and joint venture negotiations. He
is the founding Director of Geeland Pty Ltd providing consulting services
to resource companies and financial corporations as a resource analyst.
Simon’s corporate experience includes
project appraisal, advice on placements and fund raising. Simon is a
member of the Australian Institute of Geologists.
Mark Dugmore
MSc, MAUSIMM
Non-Executive Director
Mark Dugmore is the Vice President - Corporate Development of Buffalo Gold
Ltd, a Canadian gold mining company listed on the TSX Venture exchange.
Mr. Dugmore holds a Masters Degree in Exploration & Mining Geology
from James Cook University, Australia and has 20 years global experience
in the mining and minerals exploration industry. This experience includes
serving as Manager for Australia/Asia/Africa and Global Base Metals for
BHP Minerals and as an independent consultant providing advice to the
mining industry and government. He has been involved the discovery and
commercial development of several mines and mineral deposits within Australia
and overseas and has had involvement in gold and base metal exploration
in Australia and the SW Pacific region with a discovery record of almost
2 million ounces of gold and 500,000 tonnes copper.
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.
Mr Pierre Andre Van Der Merwe
CA, F Fin
Company Secretary
Pierre is a Chartered Accountant of 20 years experience and is currently a director of HLB Mann Judd (SA) Pty Ltd, a firm of Chartered Accountants in Adelaide, and a number of other private companies.
He provides corporate advice and support to a number of companies listed on the ASX and has held the position of Company Secretary to ASX listed companies.
Pierre has extensive experience in the provision of professional services to clients, including tax consulting, management of client accounting systems, reporting at Board level, assisting with financial interpretations and strategic planning. He is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
