Directors
Ken MacDonald |
Chairman Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 01 February 2008
Ken MacDonald is Chairman of the Board of Highlands Pacific Limited. Ken MacDonald has over 30 years experience in corporate law, with particular emphasis on the energy and natural resources sector as a partner with Allens Arthur Robinson and its predecessors. He retired as partner on 31 December 2007 but remains an active consultant to the firm. He has advised the Queensland Government in many significant transactions, from leading the Queensland Government legal team for the Suncorp Metway merger and subsequent privatisation, through to most recently, the sale of the Queensland retail energy business. He regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, joint ventures, capital raisings and business regulation. In addition to his present Director role with Highlands Pacific, Mr MacDonald is the Deputy Chairman of Queensland Investment Corporation, a Director of QIC Private Capital Pty Ltd; QIC Retail Pty Ltd; Q-Invest Limited and a Director of RiverCity Motorway Group.
Mr MacDonald is a member of the Board’s Nominations Committee (Chair) and Remuneration Committee. |
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John Gooding |
Managing Director Appointed: 21 May 2007
CPEng. FIEAust. FAusIMM
John Gooding is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Highlands Pacific Limited. He is a Mining Engineer with over 30 years experience in Gold and Base Metals resources including mining, exploration, smelting, refinery operations, sales & marketing, major capital expansion projects, commercial and management. He has held executive management positions with Normandy Mining, MIM, Xstrata, Ok Tedi Mining and Roche Mining. John has extensive experience in gold and base metal mining (both open-cut and underground) through the management and operation of mines in Australia, and internationally. He holds a Mine Managers Certificate (Qld, NSW & NT) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers & the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. John is a former board member of the Queensland Resource Council and has held directorships in a number of companies within the resources industry.
Mr Gooding is a member of the Board’s Nominations Committee and PNG Issues Committee. |
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Drew Simonsen |
Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 01 January 2010
BE, Dip Geoscience GAICD
Drew Simonsen was the Global Head of Energy & Resources, Telecommunications & IT for Westpac Banking Corporation where he worked for over 15 years. Prior to Westpac, he worked for Bank of America in Australia, the USA and Hong Kong for 10 years including roles as Vice President Project Finance, Director of Investment Banking, Director of Corporate Banking and Director of Financial Markets. He has been involved with many resource project financings including those for the Ok Tedi and Bougainville mines. Mr Simonsen has also worked for CRA Ltd (now Rio Tinto) in mining engineering roles, and has previously lived in PNG. |
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Mike Carroll |
Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 01 April 2008
FCPA, MAICD
Mike Carroll was appointed a Director of Highlands Pacific Limited in April 2008. He is a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountants with over 30 years experience in a broad range of industries (in all states of Australia). These include mining, petroleum, building and construction, property and a number of service industries. Mike has held executive management positions with Brambles Industries Limited, James Hardie and Comalco and is currently Chief Executive Officer of Neumann Associate Companies. He has extensive experience in acquisitions (including integration), Government and semi-Government relationships, business development, profit growth and Corporate Governance. Mr Carroll is a member of the Australian Institute of Directors.
Mr Carroll is a member of the Board’s Audit Committee (Chair). |
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Dan Wood |
Independent, Non-executive Director
Mr Wood is an exploration geologist with a long and distinguished record in the mining industry. He retired from mineral exploration in late 2008 after 24 years with BHP and almost 18 years with Newcrest Mining Limited, exploring for a range of mineral resources in Australia, SE Asia/SW Pacific and the Americas. During his career he was associated with coal, gold, gold-copper and molybdenum discoveries in Australia, Indonesia and Peru. Mr Wood joined Newcrest Mining at its formation in 1990 and from the mid-1990s led its highly successful exploration team as Executive General Manager Exploration. Newcrest's exploration team was judged by the Metals Economics Group of Canada to have been the world's most successful gold explorer, 1992-2005. Mr Wood has extensive experience and an international reputation in mineral exploration and discovery, and was jointly awarded the Joe Harms Medal by the Geological Society of Australia for discovering the Cadia gold-copper deposits in NSW.
Mr Wood is an Advisory Board member of the WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre at the University ofQueensland, and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists in the USA. |
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Fiu Williame-lgara |
Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 24 March 2005
Fiu Williame-Igara was appointed a Director of Highlands Pacific Limited in March 2005. She has extensive experience at policy level in economic development issues, with a comprehensive understanding of domestic, regional and international economic, financial, political, sociocultural and gender issues. Currently, she provides consultancy services to the public and private sectors. Previously, Ms Williame-Igara has managed a private enterprise, achieved First Assistant Secretary level in the PNG Department of Finance and Planning, and worked as a Regional Coordination Advisor for the South Pacific Forum Secretarial.
Ms Williame-Igara is a member of the Board’s Audit Committee and PNG Issues Committee. |
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| Craig Lennon |
Chief Financial Officer, BBus (Acctg), CA, GDip AppFin (Finsia)
Craig Lennon has been with Highlands Pacific Limited for seven years holding a number of positions within the finance department. He worked for companies in Australia, United Kingdom and Papua New Guinea and in industries including manufacturing, construction, retail, hospitality and mining. Craig also holds the office of Company Secretary and has a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance with the Chartered Secretaries Australia. |
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| Lawrence Queen |
Chief Geologist, BSc (Geol), MSc (Econ Geol), MAusIMM
Lawrence Queen has been with Highlands Pacific Limited for eleven years holding various senior positions within the exploration department. He has over 25 years experience in minerals exploration and project evaluation. During that time he has worked on mineral projects in Papua New Guinea, Alaska, Indonesia, Fiji, Australia and the southwest US. |
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| Peter Jolly |
General Manager Projects, Bach. Mech. Eng (Hons), PhD
Peter Jolly joined Highlands Pacific Limited in June 2008. Prior to this he held senior management roles for American multi-national companies in Asia, including Director of the Advanced Power Electronics Research Center, Chief Engineer for the air conditioning product line for Emerson in China and the Research and Development Manager for Carrier Refrigeration - Asia Pacific Operations. During the 1980’s Peter was a Senior Research fellow at The University of Queensland. He started his career as a Mechanical Engineer for the Zinc Corporation in Broken Hill. |
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| Terry Smith |
General Manager Mining Business Development, B.Eng, M.Eng, Bus.Dip
Terry Smith joined Highlands in June 2009. Prior to this he held senior management roles with several Australian and overseas mining and contract mining, companies and has over 25 years experience in the industry.
Mr Smith has extensive experience in both open cut and underground mining of base and precious metals and diamonds as well as coal. Experience has been focussed at the site operations level with roles as Mining Manager and General Manager in mines in Australia and overseas. In addition work has been completed in the business development area including scoping and feasibility study work on major underground and open cut projects as well as business analysis for merger and acquisition activity.
Terry began his career at CRA operations in Broken Hill Australia in 1980, as a mining engineer and later gained his Master of Engineering [rock mechanics] and diploma in Business administration. |
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