Board Management
Russell Barnett – Non-Executive Chairman
B.Com. (UWA), MBA (UWA), Grad.Cert.Min.Ec.
Mr Russell Barnett has a Masters of Business Administration, Bachelor of Commerce, a Graduate Certificate in Mineral Economics and has over 15 years experience in technology commercialisation, innovation management, new venture creation and venture capital markets with a wide range of organisations throughout the Asia Pacific region. He is the Principal and founder of Australian Venture Consultants Pty Ltd, a management consulting practice providing expertise in these areas to universities, research funding agencies and other innovation intensive organisations.
Miles Ashton – Managing Director
B.Com. (UWA)
Mr Miles Ashton has over 12 years of professional experience working in global capital markets. Prior to joining GB Energy in 2008, he was based in Hong Kong for 3 years where he held the position of Executive Director, Head of Sales and Public Distribution for ABN AMRO Bank in Asia – a top 10 global investment bank – where he headed up a mulit-asset mandate regional sales team covering affluent clients in Asia. Mr Ashton also spent 7 years in London with ABN AMRO where he was responsible for developing and marketing financial products for high net worth individuals targeting private banking centres such as the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Dubai.
Dr Paul Robinson – Non-Executive Director
B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D
Dr Paul Robinson is an independent technical advisor for the oil and gas industry. Dr Paul Robinson was a founder of Isis Petroleum Consultants. Over a 25 year career in hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation, he has developed a unique combination of geoscience skills including sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, basin modelling and development geology that have been utilised in numerous projects in SE Asia, India, Australia, PNG, Africa, Europe and New Zealand.
Ross Ashton – Non-Executive Director
B.Sc.Geol (Syd), MAusIMM
Mr Ross Ashton has been involved in the exploration, consulting, financing and development of mining projects in Australia and Africa since 1972. He recently retired as Chairman of TSX listed Red Back Mining Inc (previously listed on the ASX as Red Back Mining NL 1996 – 2005), a Ghanaian gold mining company. Mr Ashton is also a director of ASX listed Brockman Resources Limited.
Nick Burn – Manager - Business Development
B.Sc. (Hons), MBA MAIG
Mr Nick Burn is a geologist with 22 years experience in the exploration and development of gold, uranium, base metals and mineral sands resources across Australia. He was most recently Exploration Manager for the successful uranium development company Energy Metals Ltd where he managed exploration and development of the advanced Bigryli uranium resource in the Northern Territory and five uranium resource projects in Western Australia. Mr Burn completed his Honours thesis on paleochannel-hosted uranium mineralization and holds an MBA in strategic management.
Anna MacKintosh – Company Secretary
B.Com. (UWA), CPA
Mrs Anna MacKintosh has over 20 years commercial experience with the last 9 years being employed as the Compliance Manager, Finance Manager and Responsible Executive of Kirke Securities, a licenced Perth based stockbroking firm.