Directors
Ken MacDonald |
Chairman Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 01 February 2008
Ken MacDonald has over 35 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 where he headed the firm's Energy, Resources and Infrastructure Department and had responsibility for its Port Moresby office. 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 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. He has long experience as a listed company director. In addition to his present role with Highlands Pacific, Mr MacDonald is currently the Deputy Chairman of QIC, and a Director of Bond University Limited.
Mr MacDonald is Chairman of the Board’s Nomination Committee 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 35 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. Mr Gooding is a Board Member of the PNG Chamber of Mines and Energy and a Director of Hillgrove Resources Limited.
Mr Gooding is a member of the 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 most recently Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hillgrove Resources Limited, an ASX listed company, until July 2012. Prior to Hillgrove, he had over 30 years of investment banking, banking and advisory experience, firstly with Bank of America in Sydney, San Francisco and Hong Kong, and subsequently with Westpac Banking Corporation in Sydney and Melbourne. He has been directly involved with many resource and infrastructure related financings and advisory roles, including those involving export and import lines of credit from multi-lateral agencies to support major projects in developing countries, including PNG. He originally graduated as a mining engineer, and worked in engineering and operational roles with CRA Ltd (now Rio Tinto) in Broken Hill, NSW. Mr Simonsen has a special affinity for PNG, having previously lived there.
Mr Simonsen is a member of the Board’s Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee. |
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Mike Carroll |
Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 01 April 2008
FCPA, MAICD
Mike Carroll is a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountants with over 35 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. Mr Carroll 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 Chairman of the Board’s Audit Committee (Chair), Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee. |
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Dan Wood |
Independent, Non-executive Director Appointed: 28 May 2010
Dan 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 copper-molybdenum discoveries in Australia, Indonesia and Peru. Mr Wood joined Newcrest Mining at its formation in 1990 and from the mid-1990s, as Executive General Manager Exploration, led its highly successful exploration team which was judged by the Metals Economics Group of Canada to have been the world’s most successful gold explorer, 1992-2005. He 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 of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists in the USA . |
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Bartholomew Philemon |
Independent, Non-executive Director
Bartholomew Philemon brings to the Board extensive experience in government affairs and economic development issues at the national and pacific regional levels having served with great distinction as member for the Lae Open seat from 1992 until 2012. Mr Philemon has, among many appointments, been Chairman of Air Niugini, a Director of Oil Search Limited from 1986 to 1993, and has held a number of Ministerial posts in PNG Governments including Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for Finance and Treasury.
Mr Philemon 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 over 10 years holding a number of positions within the finance department. He has 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 over fifteen 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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| Ron Gawi |
General Manager Port Moresby, Earth Science & Marine Geology Cert.
Prior to working with Highlands Pacific, Mr Gawi held a senior managerial position in the Development Coordination Division of the Mineral Resources Authority responsible for facilitating and coordinating PNG Government approvals, agreements and stakeholder engagement in mining project development, operations and closure.
Ron began his career with the Geological Survey of PNG, Department of Mining and has experience in a wide range of activities involving geological, geophysical and geotechnical investigations in the field and laboratory with rocks and soil sample preparation and testing, thin section preparation, testing of rock mechanics, water bores, resistivity and seismic data interpretation. |
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