Wayne Ryder Executive Chairman and Company Secretary Wayne has an extensive track record in the mining resources sector over many years, including having held Directorships with a number of successful explorers and producers such as Forsayth Mineral Exploration, Condor Minerals & Energy (Mt Horner, Dongara WA oil field), Kitchener Mining (Bamboo Creek, WA gold mine), Great Eastern Mines (Aga Khan emerald mine at Cue, WA) and Lightning Ridge Mining (opal mining at Lightning Ridge, NSW). He has spent considerable time in the United States, working from his own Coral Resources exploration headquarters in Denver, Colorado and New York where he was a member of the prestigious New York Mining Club. As a consequence, he has developed excellent associations with US based exploration groups, as well as key US capital market resource investors. Wayne is the principal of long established Chartered Accounting and Corporate Advisory Firm W. Ryder & Co. His Firmís clients are based in Australia and several other countries, especially China, Hong Kong and the United States, and include south of France based Continental Industrie, a large dealer in mining equipment world-wide. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration in the United States.
| Warren John Staude Non-Executive Director Sydney based, Warren has long term professional experience in mining and mineral exploration, resource investment and portfolio investment management. Over the past 20 years he has been engaged mostly in institutional investment management and research, working in AMP and GIO. Following AMPís takeover of GIO he assumed a leading role in establishing a specialist international resource equity investment fund and in assisting corporations in fund raising and with corporate advice. Previously he has worked as a Consulting Geologist in both Government and industry, and on the academic staff at Macquarie University. Warren is a Director of minerals explorers Malachite Resources Limited, Tasgold NL and Central West Gold NL. He is a Graduate of the University of Sydney (BSc, Geology), Macquarie University (MSc, Mineral Economics), and holds a Graduate Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia, and sits on the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) and the VALMIN Committee.
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