Board & Management
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.
Joint Company Secretaries
Damian Hicks, Company Secretary
Mr Damian Hicks holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from the University of Western Australia and is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He has also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment (FINSIA), a Graduate Diploma in Company Secretarial Practice (Chartered Secretaries Australia), and completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors course. He is currently studying a Bachelor of Applied Geology at Curtin University.
Mr Hicks was a founder and long-serving Executive Director of Hannans Ltd, where he spent twenty years leading exploration programs for precious and base metals, and bulk materials, across Western Australia, Sweden, and Finland. He is the founder and Non-Executive Director of Recycling Industries Scandinavia AB, advancing the development of a vanadium chemical plant in Finland, and is a Director of Summit Development Ltd, the applicant for the Mt Kare gold deposit in Papua New Guinea.
Mr Hicks serves as Executive Chair of advisory firm Corporate Board Services.
Mindy Ku, Company Secretary
Mrs Mindy Ku holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing from University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, is a Member of Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia and a Fellow member of the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA).
Mrs Ku has over 20 years of international experience in financial analysis, financial reporting, management accounting, compliance reporting, board reporting, company secretarial services and office management across multiple jurisdictions (Australia, Malaysia, UK, Sweden, and Norway), including ASX listed companies, public and private companies.
