Ted Grobicki retired in May 2006 from the position of Executive Director at Harmony Gold Mining Company, the fifth largest gold mining company in the world, where he had held several senior executive roles in South Africa, Australia and Canada respectively. He was part of the team that envisaged and executed the strategies and actions which transformed Harmony from a lease-bound loss-making local company into one of the largest and most dynamic integrated gold mining enterprises in the world.
He has 36 years experience in operational, corporate and financial management in the international mining industry. His experience encompasses activities in exploration, development and construction, operational management and restructuring, and in corporate management, mergers and acquisitions in various parts of the world including Southern Africa, North and South America, Australia, Russia and South-East Asia respectively.
He has served on the Boards of 15 publicly listed companies during his career and currently also serves as non-executive chairman of Luiri Gold Mines Limited.
Rhod Grivas
Managing Director
Mr Grivas is a geologist with 17 years experience in all technical aspects of exploration from grassroots through to resource estimation and feasibility. He has held a number of director and management positions with junior resource companies and worked at Gilt-Edged Mining NL prior to its takeover by Goldfields Limited (now Placer Dome Asia Pacific), as the Kundana exploration manager during the discovery by Gilt-Edged Mining of a million ounce gold resource, located directly along strike from Dioros Frogs Leg deposit.
David McArthur
Executive Director
Mr McArthur is a Chartered Accountant, with over 21 years' experience in the accounting profession. Mr McArthur has been actively involved in the financial and corporate management of a number of public listed companies.
Mark Pitt
Director of Mining Operations
Mr Mark Pitt is a mining engineer with extensive experience in mining projects. He was the mining engineer member of the original team that created the medium size gold miner New Hampton Goldfields Limited. Mr Pitt was the director in charge of the operations on which the strong profitable mining company was built. New Hampton was subsequently taken over by South African miner Harmony Gold. During his extensive career Mr Pitt has provided mining engineering services to several public companies. Work experience includes mine management, mine planning and permitting, feasibility studies and mine financing.
Mark O'dea
Non-executive Director
Dr O’Dea is founder, president and CEO of Canadian listed companies Fronteer Development Group and Aurora Energy Resources. Dr O’Dea has been recognised by the Financial Post, Globe and Mail for raising over $250 million in equity financings and building an outstanding exploration team that has developed a sizeable portfolio of advanced-stage gold and copper-gold assets, as well as one of the world’s largest primary deposits of uranium.
Under Dr O’Dea’s leadership, both companies have become ranked among the Top 50 Strongest publicly traded companies in B.C. for their significant capital, liquidity and asset values. Previous to Fronteer and Aurora, Dr O’Dea worked with SRK Consulting and founded Riftore Consulting, providing structural advice on mineral exploration for client companies around the world.
Dr O’Dea has also served as a member of the Board of Frontera Copper Corporation. Dr O’Dea graduated from Carleton University in 1989 with a B.S.c (Hons.) degree in Geology. He then completed his Ph.D. in structural Geology at Monash University in 1995 and subsequently held a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Ross Kestel
Non-executive Director
Ross Kestel is both a Chartered Accountant and Certified Practising Accountant and has been a director of the accounting practice Nissen Kestel Harford since July 1980.
Over the last 18 years, he has acted as a Director and Company Secretary of a number of public companies involved in mineral exploration, mining, mine services, property development, manufacturing and technology industries.
Mr Kestel is Chairman of several audit committees and is also a member of their respective Remuneration Committees.
He has assisted in the listing of a significant number of public companies on the ASX and has been a member of a number of Due Diligence and Takeover Strategy Committees.
Mr Kestel is a Registered Company Auditor and a member of the Institute of Company Directors.