Dr Mike Etheridge
Non-Executive Chariman

Mike is a geologist who has had a varied career in academia, a government research organisation and in industry. He moved from public sector research to industry in 1989, and co-founded the geoscience consultancy business Etheridge Henley Williams (EHW). EHW grew to over 30 staff on three continents before it merged with the SRK Consulting group to become SRK’s Australasian business in 1997. Mike left SRK Australasia, where he was chairman, in 2004 to pursue a career as a professional company director in the resources and related R&D sectors.

He is currently non-executive chairman of ABM Resources Ltd (ASX: ABU) and Zeus Uranium Ltd (a pre-IPO venture), and a non-executive director of DET CRC Ltd, a collaborative research organisation involving the mining industry, universities and government research bodies. He was previously a director of Lihir Gold Ltd, prior to its merger with Newcrest Ltd, Consolidated Minerals Ltd, prior to its takeover by Palmary Plc, and Ariana Resources Plc (AIM).

Mike is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Society of Economic Geologists and the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. 

Mr Gordon Barnes
Managing Director & Exploration Manager 

Gordon is an exploration geologist with a background in exploration project management and technical consulting services. He has 23 years of practical experience, ranging from active field based projects through to multi-commodity project generation initiatives in Australia, Asia, North and South America. He worked as an Exploration Geologist with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc at the Karonie gold project in the Eastern Goldfields. Following Freeport's merger with the Normandy-Poseidon Group in 1989, he became a Project then Senior Geologist with Normandy Exploration, working on projects in the Murchison (Au), Southern Cross (Au, Ni), Eastern Goldfields (Au), Pilbara (Au, Cu) and Kimberley (Ni, Co, Zn) regions of Western Australia.

Gordon started consulting to the industry in 1996 and co-founded the Insight Geoscience Group the following year. Insight Geoscience participated in several client-sponsored project generative initiatives in Asia (Au, Cu), Australia (Zn, Cu, Pb) and North America (Zn). He has also worked on a variety of advanced database projects for multi-national clients.

Gordon joined Clancy's original parent company, Geoinformatics Exploration Inc., in April 2004 as Australasian Exploration Manager and transferred to Clancy as Exploration Manager in 2007 upon its IPO. He subsequently became Managing Director of Clancy in January 2011, a position he holds in conjunction with the Exploration Manager role.

Gordon graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Geology in 1987 and completed an MSc in Ore Deposit Geology at the University of Western Australia in 1996. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Society of Economic Geologists. 
 

Mr Mark Lester
Non-Executive Director (Financial) 

Mark graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1977 with a Bachelor of Commerce and joined a major international accounting firm where he worked for six years. During that time he was involved in the audit of corporations in Australia and the USA encompassing industries such as finance, manufacturing, retailing, oil and gas, construction and transportation.

In 1982, Mark left public accounting to work in commerce gaining experience in the financial services and manufacturing sectors. In 1988 he returned to public practice. Currently he is a partner in a Chartered Accounting practice based in Subiaco, Western Australia. Mark is also a Registered Auditor and a director of a Registered Tax Agent and is involved in advising a wide range of clients including public companies, large private groups, not for profit organisations and trustee entities.

Mark was company secretary of Melbourne-based biotech company Meditech Research Limited for six years until its acquisition by Alchemia Limited. During that period he acted as chief financial officer and was responsible for all ASIC and ASX compliance matters. 
 

Dr James Macdonald
Non-Executive Director

James is a geoscientist who has operated a consultancy business providing professional geoscientific services to exploration and mining companies for several years. He has over 30 years experience in the global exploration and mining industries. James was Chief Geologist for AGIP Resources focused on exploration for epithermal gold deposits in Canada and Europe in the late 1980's. He managed Andean gold exploration for Homestake Mining Company from 1994 to 1998, during which time the exploration team was responsible for the discovery of the Jeronimo deposit, the downdip extension of the Agua de la Falda mine in Chile.

In 1998, James joined Billiton International Metals as Chief Geoscientist, based in the Netherlands and worked globally on exploration strategy and providing technical expertise to teams exploring for a range of deposit types including porphyry copper, sediment-hosted copper, lateritic nickel and iron oxide-copper-gold. Following the merger with BHP in 2001, he relocated to Brisbane, Australia, in a similar capacity as Global Geoscience Leader, with a focus on strategy and copper exploration (porphyry and sediment-hosted), amongst other minerals.

James completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at Oxford University, majoring in Geology. He subsequently completed a MSc and a PhD in Economic Geology at the University of Toronto. He is a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Rowan Caren
Company Secretary 

Rowan has more than 17 years commercial experience as a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1992. He has been involved in the minerals exploration industry for over ten years and in 2004 created a specialist company secretarial and advisory consultancy, Dabinett Corporate Pty Ltd. He has provided financial and corporate services to several listed and unlisted companies involved in the resources sector.

Rowan graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Western Australia and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.