Robert John (Jack) Telford (Executive Chairman), A.W.A.I.T (Chem.) M.R.A.C.I.

Mr Telford is Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Gippsland Limited.

Mr Telford has more than 30 years of senior management experience in technology and resource-based industries.  With widespread international experience, he is well placed to lead the development of Gippsland’s projects in Egypt.

Mr Telford resource credentials include 17 years direct involvement with international companies, both private and public, at the Chief Executive Officer level.  His experience has also included technology-based companies involved in complex inorganic and organic chemical manufacture.  He has been involved in the pharmaceutical industry having been a past chairman and a major shareholder of the company Inovax Limited.

He holds an Associate degree in Pure Chemistry (Organic and Inorganic) having graduated from the Institute of Technology of Western Australia (now Curtin University) in 1967.

Jon Starink

Mr Starink's qualifications include Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours (University of Sydney), a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with First Class Honours (University of Sydney) and a Master of Applied Science (University of Sydney). His academic achievements include; Union Carbide Prize in Inorganic Chemistry, Western Mining Prize in Chemical Engineering and Beckman Coulter Postgraduate Prize for Best Overall Performance in Molecular Biotechnology. He held the position of Deputy Head Department of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University of Technology during 1984-85 & 1987.

Based in London, Jon Starink is a Chartered Professional Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Industrial Chemist, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Member of The Metallurgical Society and a Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

He has 30 years experience in the mining industry in the role of both executive and non-executive director. His extensive practical and operational experience includes engineering design and project management; mining exploration management; science and engineering research & development and process innovation & development.

Of particular relevance, for ten years he served in senior technical and engineering roles with the Sons of Gwalia Ltd Greenbushes tantalum-tin project where he was directly responsible for process development, project design and construction management for the tin smelter and tantalum extraction projects.

John Morrison Chisholm

Geologist Dr Chisholm has a wide experience in exploration geology and exploration management having worked as lecturer at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University prior to working for various international mining companies.

Dr Chisholm is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy with Chartered Practising status in Geology. He was one of the first geologists in Australia to have been awarded Practising Chartered Status in geology by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy which is the highest level of recognition that can be attained by professional geologists.

In 1984 he joined Western United Mining Services Pty Ltd during which time as managing director he managed a large group of geoscientists and was involved in the discovery of the Transvaal and Bounty gold mines. Dr Chisholm has over 25 years experience in the mineral industry including the evaluation of exploration data, mineral resources and ore reserves.

John Stuart Ferguson Dunlop

John Stuart Ferguson Dunlop holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Mining Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He is a certified Mine Manager having approximately 35 years of international surface and underground mining experience in a variety of base metal, industrial and precious metal production and management situations.

He is a Director of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and Chairman of its affiliate, the Mineral Industry Consultants Association (MICA).

Mr Dunlop is an experienced mining engineer having been involved in the design, construction and on-going operation of a number of major resource projects throughout the world. He has operated his own mining consulting firm based in Perth since 1992 and was previously a senior executive with BHP's (now BHP Billiton) Minerals Division, before becoming General Manager Operations for Aztec Mining Co Ltd until this company's takeover by Normandy Mining Ltd.

John Damian Kenny

Mr Kenny is a lawyer with a specialised interest in venture capital, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in public equity fundraisings and the pricing of equity, debt and derivative securities.