Board of Directors

Mark Connelly is an internationally experienced financial and commercial executive, with extensive resource industry experience where he held positions of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. He has experience with several multinational companies across many areas including Australia, North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

Mark is a Corporate Executive with a track record for deal making and was principally responsible for the merger of Papillon Resources and B2 Gold Corp in October 2014 (transaction value USD$570M), as well as the key person responsible for Adamus Resources Limited and Endeavour Mining Merger in September 2011 (transaction value of USD$597M).

Mark was the recipient of the Mining Journal’s “Outstanding Achievement – CEO of the Year 2014 Award” for his outstanding contribution to Papillon Resources.

Mr Dunbar has over 25 years’ experience in exploration and mine geology in Australia and overseas. He was involved in the discovery, delineation and development of the +2Moz Thunderbox gold mine, the delineation and development of the +1Moz Dalgaranga Gold Mine, the discovery and delineation of the +1Moz Glenburgh Gold deposit and the discovery and delineation of the Waterloo/Amorac, Munali and the Mirabella Nickel Sulphide mines, the IOCG – Cloncurry Copper, Gold, Cobalt, Magnetite project as well as a number of smaller deposits.

Mr Dunbar’s experience includes 4 years with Eagle Mining, 6 years with LionOre Australia, 6 years with the Mitchell River group of companies including Albidon, Mirabela Nickel, African Energy, Sally Malay Mining (now Panoramic) and Exco Resources and 9 years with Gascoyne Resources. Mr Dunbar was previously Managing Director at Mamba Exploration.

Mr Tate has over 30 years’ experience as a commercial and finance lender and extensive experience in public listed companies at Board and Committee level. He is currently Group CFO of BGC and a non-executive director of the not-for-profit company, Ride against Domestic Violence. He has previously held senior executive roles providing strategic, commercial, and financial leadership to a variety of international and ASX 100 companies including Iluka Resources, BHP Billiton and WMC Resources.

He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.