Board of Directors

John Barr AM MAICD

Non-Executive Chairman
Appointed 10 November 2004

Mr Barr has had a long involvement with the Australian minerals and metals industry having been Managing Director of Metallgesellschaft's Australian subsidiary since the company's inception in 1974 until his retirement in 1994. He is a former Director of Iluka Resources Limited, Acacia Resources Ltd, Oxiana Limited, and Transurban City Link Ltd. In August 2005 he retired as Chairman of Utilities of Australia Pty Ltd, a major unlisted infrastructure investment fund.

Mr Barr is a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and Remuneration Committee.

Andrew Daley BSC (HONS)(MINING) Grad Dip (GeoSc), C.Eng (UK), FAusIMM, MIOM3

Non-Executive Director
Appointed 10 November 2004 

Mr Daley commenced his mining career in 1970 with Anglo American on the Zambian copper belt and later worked with Rio Tinto and Conoco Minerals also in Africa. He moved to Australia with the engineering group Fluor Australia in 1981 working on new project evaluation. In 1983 Mr Daley, moved into resource project finance with National Australia Bank, Chase Manhattan and from 1999 as a Director of the Mining Team at Barclays Capital in London.

From his return to Australia in 2003 until retiring from full-time work in mid 2009 he was Director of Investor Resources Finance Pty Limited (“IRF”), a company based in Melbourne which provided financial advisory services to the resources industry globally.

Mr Daley is a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

John Taylor B.Eng (CHEM) MBA

Non-executive Director
Appointed 28 July 2009 

Mr Taylor has held senior positions in business and has had 40 years experience in the Australian and international engineering and construction industries; primarily in the resources sector. Previously, the Managing Director of Outotec (Australasia) Pty Ltd (retired 2010) and has held directorships in several ASX listed companies including Ticor Limited and privately held companies including Lurgi (Australia) Pty Ltd and Metallgesellschaft of Australia Pty Ltd.

Simon Milroy B.Eng (MINING)

Managing Director
Appointed 14 May 2007

Mr Milroy is a mining engineer who previously spent nearly 4 years as General Manager – Project Development and Manager Technical Services for Pan Australian Resources Limited in Laos. In those roles he was responsible for scoping and feasibility studies, evaluations of projects and companies, ore reserves and technical support of the company's operations. During that period key achievements were managing the feasibility studies and environmental and social impact assessments for the Phu Bia gold mine and the Phu Kham copper-gold mine. 

Hugh McKinnon B.Eng (MINING)

Executive Director
Appointed 28 May 1998 

Mr McKinnon has been involved in the mining industry in Australia, Africa, and Asia for 30 years in activities ranging from exploration ventures to mine production. Since early 1996 he has worked on mining and exploration projects across Central Asia from Tajikistan to Mongolia, with a particular interest in the Kyrgyz Republic. Hugh speaks competent Russian and is Chairman of the International Business Council in the Kyrgyz Republic.