The Board of Directors
Mr Gordon Toll - B.Eng (Hons), MBA
Non-executive Chairman
Mr. Toll has had a long and distinguished career in the mining industry and brings more than 35 years mining experience to the Board of LinQ Capital Limited. Mr. Toll has an extensive range of experience including acquisitions and new business, company/business turnaround, general management of companies at all levels and public company leadership.
During his career his major commodity experience includes iron ore, coal, borates and other non-metallic industrial minerals, copper, gold, agricultural and heavy chemicals (specifically potash, soda ash, sodium bi-carbonate, sodium sulphate and sodium hydroxide), ethanol, methanol and oil and gas. Mr. Toll is also Chairman of Compass Resources.
Mr. Toll is a member of the Audit and Chairman of the Nomination Committee.
Mr Clive Donner - B.Comm
Managing Director
Mr. Donner joined the Rothschild Australia Group in 1990 and founded the Golden Arrow Funds within Rothschild Australia in 1997. These were venture capital resources funds.
Mr. Donner formerly held the position of Director at N M Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited (a position he held since 1996). Prior to founding and managing the LinQ Mining Fund 8 years ago, Mr. Donner was the head of the Rothschild Australia Group's project financing business in Perth where Mr. Donner provided mainly emerging mining companies with restructuring advice, project debt and derivatives to finance the development of resources projects.
Prior to this Mr. Donner spent 9 years in senior executive positions at Citibank, both in Australia and internationally, in corporate and project financing. All up, Mr. Donner has 25 years of relevant expertise both in Australia and internationally in equity investment, corporate and project financing, capital raising, investment advising and evaluation of resource companies. This experience has enabled Mr. Donner to evaluate companies and often provide structured solutions to investing in order to identify and manage the risks inherent in investing in the smaller capitalised resources sector both in Australia and offshore.
Mr Bruno Camarri - AM LLB.
Non-executive Director
Mr. Camarri is the Deputy Chairman of United Group Ltd and formerly a non-executive director of LinQ Investors Limited (manager of the LinQ Mining Fund) and various other public and private companies. Mr. Camarri was Partner at the legal firm, Freehills, between 1973 and 2003.
He practices as a corporate lawyer, primarily representing clients in the energy and natural resources industries. Between January 1994 and August 1996 he was the Senior Counsel for the Western Australian Commission on Government.
In 1999 and 2000, Mr. Camarri was nominated by the London based Euromoney Legal Group Survey as one of the world's leading energy and resources lawyers. During May 2008, Mr. Camarri was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
Mr Nicholas Lattimore - B.Econ, MBA
Non-executive Director
Mr. Lattimore is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Brisconnections. Mr Lattimore was formerly the Deputy CEO of JF Infrastructure Pty Limited, a fund management business which specializes in managing Infrastructure and Environment investments in Australia and selected offshore jurisdictions.
Mr. Lattimore previously held the position of Managing Director- Head of Banking at NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited. Prior to this he was Managing Director and Head of the Structured Finance businesses at Deutsche Bank in Australia and New Zealand where the scope of his responsibilities included project advisory and finance (infrastructure, privatisation and resources), leverage finance (acquisitions, LBO, MBO, mezzanine debt and public to private) and structured finance (tax and accounting related lending and advice).
Mr. Lattimore spent approximately 12 years at Macquarie Bank (1979-1991) in several senior project and structured finance positions.
Jyn Sim Baker - LLB (Lond), CLP (Uni. of Mal), ICSA (Lond)
Non-Executive Director
Ms Baker is currently the Group CEO of IMC Resources Group, CEO of IMC Resources (Australia) as well as the IMC Country Manager for Australia. Ms Baker has 21 years experience in the resources and energy sector including law, project finance and banking, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining IMC, Ms Baker served as the Managing Director of Midwest Corporation Ltd, an ASX listed iron ore company.
She has a LLB in law from the University of London, is a Chartered Secretary and Administrator (UK) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Ms Baker has had previous experience in the Australian resources sector and was also actively involved in privatisation of government agencies and has exposure to a wide range of industries - both within Malaysia and internationally.
Mr Graham Fariss - B.Eng, MBA
Non-executive Director
Mr. Fariss currently holds the position of General Manager, Corporate Development for Mincor Resources NL, a Perth based mining company with significant operating assets in the Kambalda Nickel District and base metal exploration interests throughout Australia. He is a civil engineer with nearly 30 years experience in the resources, engineering, construction and contract mining sectors.
Prior to his appointment with Mincor, Mr. Fariss held the position of General Manager Corporate Finance with the Tethyan Copper Company Limited where he held responsibility for the financial and commercial challenges of developing a major copper project in Pakistan. He has also held a number of senior finance and business development positions with Clough Limited over a 15 year period which commenced in 1990.