The Management Team
Mr Clive Donner
Refer to Board of Directors
Mr Richard Procter
General Manager - LinQ Group - BSc (Eng), MBA, CEng, MIMMM
Mr. Procter is a mining engineer with over 30 years broad international experience encompassing roles in the corporate, operations, contracting, consulting and mine development areas. He has held senior industry positions that have demonstrated leadership and management of base and precious metal mining companies (both underground and open); development of project assessment types including definitive/bankable feasibility studies and their conversion into mining operations; managed teams undertaking mining asset evaluations and valuations, including technical and operational audits (encompassing complete mining asset due diligence and expert reports). He also has been involved in many mining operation start-ups (both small and large) - as well as the re-engineering of large ongoing operations. Richard provides technical and financial capability to the fund and represents several public and private companies at board level.
Mr. Procter’s exposure to mining assets (both development and operating mines) covers the following geographical and mineral commodity spread: Australasia: Australia (gold, copper, coal, vanadium, kaolin, lead, zinc, nickel, uranium), Indonesia (gold), Philippines (gold, copper, nickel), Malaysia (gold, copper), New Zealand (gold); Africa: Zimbabwe (coal, chromite, platinum, gold, copper, asbestos, tungsten, nickel); South Africa (gold, coal, copper, platinum, manganese, mineral sands, diamonds), Ghana (gold, diamonds); Mozambique (copper); Botswana (diamonds, copper); Mali (gold); North and South America: Canada (gold, uranium), USA (tungsten), Brazil (diamonds), Peru (tungsten); Europe: France (potash, coal, iron ore); England (potash, coal), Ireland (copper, lead, zinc), Portugal (gold, tungsten); Middle/Far East: Saudi Arabia (gold), Iran (copper, gold), Khazakstan (gold), Mongolia (copper, molybdenum), Oman (gold), Russia (gold, tungsten). He has held senior industry positions with companies such as Bateman, Nedpac, Minproc, Mirabela, DevMin, Lonrho, Avocet, WMC, BHP Billiton and Tri Origin.
Mr Simon Durack - B.Comm, Post Grad Dip Bus, CA, FCIS
Mr. Durack is a Chartered Accountant and practicing Company Secretary, with over 28 years commercial experience gained working in Australia, South East Asia and Europe.
Mr. Durack's commercial experience includes time worked in the Accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He has also held many senior financial and secretarial roles with both large public and private entities. In these roles, Mr. Durack has been responsible for providing managerial, secretarial and financial advisory input. Mr. Durack has also acted as resident Director for several offshore companies with operations in Australia.
Mr. Durack is the Group Company Secretary and brings a strong commercial and financial background. Mr. Durack will also be available to assist the Group in investment due diligence and other management matters.
Mr Pierre Malherbe - B.Comm Investment Management; B.Comm Acc. (Hons); M.Comm Business Management
Mr. Malherbe is a Senior Manager for the fund and brings to the management team a strong finance background. Mr. Malherbe will assist the Group in financial assessment and structuring of opportunities, due diligence and other management matters.
Mr. Malherbe's experience includes 15 years in the Investment Banking and Finance industries gained with some of the major banks in South Africa, including ABSA and Nedbank. He held senior financial and managerial positions within these Banks and was responsible for managerial, transactional and financial input into multi-million dollar structured finance transactions across all spectrums, including: mining, construction, aviation and other capital intensive projects.
Ms Karen Lloyd - BSc (Hons), MBA MAusIMM
Karen is an Analyst with the Fund. Karen holds BSc (Hons) Geology and an MBA and has 14 years experience in the resources industry in both the operational and consulting environments. She has experience covering a number of commodities including base metals, gold, iron ore, and mineral sands.
Through leading numerous feasibility and operational planning studies across the disciplines of geology, geotechnical engineering and mine planning Karen is proficient in both technical and economic project evaluation. Karen is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; she was most recently a senior member of the BHP Billiton Nickel West Strategic Mine Planning team and a 2009 Ore Reserve Competent Person.
Mr Daren Liebenau - B.Comm
Mr. Liebenau is a Manager within the LinQ Group.
Mr. Liebenau holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch University majoring in professional accounting and finance and is currently completing the qualification of Chartered Accountant. Daren has over ten years commercial experience working in accounting roles with both public and private entities. Before joining the Linq Group, Daren held a position in the Accounting profession with KPMG. Mr. Liebenau provides financial and investment input assisting with business development initiatives, corporate advisory and high level administrative matters.
Ms Kari Miragliotta
Ms Miragliotta fulfills the role of Executive Assistant to the Managing Director and takes care of the comprehensive day to day administrative functions of the LinQ Group office.
Ms Miragliotta has held a similar position with an international mining design company in the past where she gained valuable experience in the industry.
Retained Industry Specialists
Dr Evan Kirby
Dr Evan Kirby is a metallurgist with over 30 years of international involvement. He has managed and developed process technology teams for both mining and engineering companies. At the same time, he has maintained a strong "hands-on" technical capability whilst leading or working as an active team member on feasibility studies, plant designs, technical audits, and debottlenecking work.
Evan has a broad understanding of operational and engineering issues associated with process design, optimisation and management. His experience covers gold, platinum group metals, diamonds, copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc, tin, uranium, iron ore, chromite, arsenic, mercury, vanadium, fluorspar, and sulfuric acid production.
Evan has current involvement with number of leading-edge projects for the recovery of precious and base metals.
Mr Geoff Jones
Mr Jones is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree. He has approximately 25 years experience in construction, engineering, mineral processing and project development, including over 6 years with Resolute Limited, where he was responsible for the development of it’s gold and nickel projects both in Australia and Africa. Mr Jones also managed the study works for Gallery Gold Limited’s Botswana gold project in his capacity as Executive Director Operations. Mr Jones is currently the Managing Director of listed exploration company Brumby Resources Limited and is a Non-Executive Director of Matrix Metals Limited. He also continues to operate his own project management and engineering consultancy, JMG Projects Pty Ltd, servicing the mining industry.
Mr Peter Rowe - BSc (Chem Eng), FAusImm, FAICD
Mr. Rowe has broad international mining industry experience gained over a 35 year career based mainly in Australia and South Africa. Following 20 years with Anglo American and De Beers, he moved to Australia in the early 1990s. Mr. Rowe was project director of the Fimiston Expansion (Kalgoorlie Superpit), general manager of the Boddington Gold Mine and of the Boddington Expansion Project and managing director and CEO of Bulong Nickel. He headed up AngloGold Ashanti Australia and then moved to Johannesburg where he recently retired from his position there as executive vice president – business effectiveness.
Brian Rear
Brian Rear is a process engineer with 40 years of post graduate industry experience covering the areas of project development, mine operations, mine management and company management. His experience covers gold, uranium, copper, zinc, lead, thermal coal, mineral sands and industrial minerals in Australia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Africa and Papua New Guinea. Spent 14 years with Anglovaal Limited in various roles including Chief Consulting Metallurgist and Divisional line Manager with responsibility for business unit performance. Over the past 16 years as CEO/MD was responsible for the successful green field development of three copper projects in Australia and an export thermal coal project in Indonesia.