Directors

Brian Rodan, Managing Director & Executive Chairman

FAusIMM

Mr Rodan is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) with 45 years’ mining experience. Mr Rodan is currently Managing Director and Executive Chairman of Siren Gold Limited and Managing Director and Executive Chairman of Iceni Gold Limited .Previously, Mr Rodan was the Managing Director and owner of Australian Contract Mining Pty Ltd (ACM), a privately owned specialist underground mining contracting company that successfully completed $1.5 billion of work over a 20-year period. ACM was sold to an ASX listed company in 2017. Prior to that for 15 years, Mr Rodan held various roles with Eltin Limited (including general manager between 1993 and 1996 and executive director between 1996 and 1999), being Australia’s largest full service ASX listed contract mining company with annual turnover of $850 million. In 2012 Mr Rodan was a founding director of Dacian Gold Limited, After listing on the ASX Mr Rodan was Dacian Golds largest shareholder. Additionally, Mr Rodan was also a former Director in 2020 and currently a substantial shareholder of Desert Metals Limited, having resigned shortly prior to listing on the ASX in 2021.

Jonathon Edwards, Executive Director

BSc (Mechanical Engineering)

Mr Edwards is a specialist engineering technologist with over 42 years experience in mining, oil, gas and subsea engineering including the alternative and renewable energy sectors.

Mr Edwards earlier engineering career included Hammersley Iron Tom Price WA, Transfield Engineering Burrup Peninsula WA, Western Mining Roxby Downs SA, BHP Petroleum Timor Sea, Eltin contracting Kalgoorlie WA, Woodside and Santos at various locations.

Mr Edwards developed and was the Managing Director of Seatrac Pty Ltd a specialist subsea engineering company using underwater robotics and proprietary intervention techniques to recover, terminate and support oil and gas wells in remote, deep, and shallow offshore locations globally.

In 2007, Seatrac was sold to the Helix Energy Solutions Group a US based international energy services provider with significant expertise in the Offshore energy sectors including renewable energy using wind, wave, and tidal power technologies. Mr Edwards was retained as the Business Development Manager from 2007 – 2012 gaining significant expertise in all forms of alternative and renewable energy technologies.

In the past 11 years from 2012 – 2023 Mr Edwards has established and is the Principal of Edwards Family Investments primarily in Perth industrial property, Gold, Lithium and Rare earth stocks and continues advancing technologies in the Green Energy sector utilising, developing, and advancing technologies in relation to Lithium Batteries, EV fast charging systems including, mobile EV fast charging systems utilising renewable energy fuels.

Adam Taylor, Non-Executive Director

Adam is an experienced CEO heading up a family-owned group of businesses with a history in the civil construction and mining sectors of over 20 years.  Adam currently oversees businesses within the Mining, Construction, Waste Management, Dewatering and Infrastructure Maintenance sectors, all currently within Western Australia and with a history of operations in New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia.

Adam is currently working on a project to extract end of life mine dewatering pipe from sites and then run through a process of recycling and remanufacture of new stormwater pipe creating a ‘circular economy’ product.  The project integrates three group businesses, mining stakeholders and government departments that can turn mining waste into an engineered and quality approved product that will be distributed Australia wide for use in the civil and plumbing markets.

Adam’s core skills include Business Management, Strategy Development, Contract Negotiation and the implementation of Innovation throughout a business.

Dave Nixon, Non-Executive Director

BSc Hons

Mr Nixon has a BSc Hons in Applied Geology, he has a significant depth of experience as an Exploration Geologist over 25 years, predominantly in gold. His experience covers generative, greenfields & brownfields exploration in Australia, North America, South America & Papua New Guinea. Mr Nixon has worked on orogenic lode gold, VMS, porphyry, epithermal & skarn deposit styles and has held previous roles as Principal Generative Geologist, Registered Exploration Manager, Exploration Superintendent. Mr Nixon previously worked within the Gold Fields Group for 4 years (2017-2020) KCGM JV for 7 years (2010-2016) & Barrick Exploration groups for 13 years (1997-2009). David has been a member of the Exploration teams responsible for the discovery or expansion of the Invincible, Hamlet North, Hidden Secret, Kora, Fairyland, Centenary, Porgera, Wallaby, Mt Charlotte & Fimiston deposits on the Golden Mile , totalling 8Moz Au.