Dennis Wilkins, B.Bus, AICD, ACIS
Chairman
Mr Wilkins is an accountant who has been a director, company secretary or acted in a corporate advisory capacity to listed resource companies for over 20 years. Mr Wilkins previously served as the Finance Director and Company Secretary for a mid-tier gold producer and spent 5 years working for a leading merchant bank in the United Kingdom. Mr Wilkins has extensive experience in capital raising, specifically for the resources industry and is the principal of DWCorporate Pty Ltd which provides advisory, funding and administrative management services to the resource sector. Mr Wilkins is a director of Minemakers Limited. |
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Ken Russell
Managing Director / CEO
Mr Russell is a petroleum engineering and production technology specialist with over 35 years experience in the international oil and gas industry. He began his career in the oil producing offshore fields of West Africa with Gulf Oil Limited in Angola and later worked for Flopetrol Schlumberger Limited, involved in well testing, wireline services and production in Australia, Asia and various parts of Africa and Europe.
In 1984 he established a petroleum engineering and production technology consultancy business which participated in the development of many of Australia's oil and gas fields, as well as fields in South East Asia, Brazil, and Russia. His client list included Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Enterprise Oil plc, Chevron Limited, BHP Billiton Limited and Hardman Resources Limited. Mr Russell has held a number of managerial roles and directorships in the oil and gas industry throughout his career and was a founding Director of Bounty Oil and Gas NL. He has considerable experience, developed over the last 20+ years, in international business and has practical operating experience operating in the areas of Key Petroleum's exploration permits. |
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John Sheppard, MBA, B. Eng, Met Cert, M Aus IMM, GAICD
Non Executive Director
Mr Sheppard is a senior executive with oil and gas, finance and business development skills. He has extensive experience in corporate governance, strategic planning, business development, mergers and acquisitions, capital development and project financing nationally and internationally in the resources and finance areas which has been built up over 42 years.
Some of his significant career achievements to date include, providing advice to the National Australia Bank Board on exposure to the resources industry and where he formulated and developed strategies to position National Australia Bank as a major project finance and corporate finance provider to the resource industry.
He has also managed final investment decision process for a Philippines petroleum project, established an oil and gas division for the Griffin group in Australia and America.
These financial skills, his oil and gas experience and his international knowledge and experience merge together to allow him to advise on future funding options for expansion of the Company. |
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