Warriedar Resources (ASX:WA8)

Mr Connelly is a seasoned financial and commercial executive with extensive resource industry experience in management leadership and Board roles. His direct operational and capital markets experience spans many jurisdictions including Australia, North America, South America, Africa and Europe.

Mr Connelly’s North American operating and development experience includes several years based in the U.S. working for Newmont Mining, one of the world’s leading gold mining companies. This included extensive exposure to and knowledge of Newmont’s flagship Nevada gold operations.

He has an outstanding track record of shareholder value growth and realisation, particularly over the last decade. This includes the development and eventual sale of Papillon Resources for approximately US$570M, and the US$597M consolidation of Endeavour Mining with Adamus Resources.

Dr Buckingham is a geophysicist who has been involved in mineral exploration for over 25 years. She co-founded Fathom Geophysics in late 2007, an award winning and industry leading geophysical consulting group based in USA and Australia that has developed the worlds-best technology for targeting under cover.

Dr Buckingham has extensive exploration experience globally. Her early career involved work as a geoscientist and project manager at majors such as Rio Tinto; as well as listed juniors in both Canada and Australia and several years consulting at SRK.

Dr Buckingham co-founded Cygnus Gold Limited [ASX: CY5] and Desert Minerals Limited [ASX: DM1]. She is currently a director of several private companies, and a research fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Dr Wang has over 20 years’ experience in the mining and resources industry specialising in identifying projects, exploration, management and business development. Dr Wang is a founding director of Global Lithium Resources Pty Ltd, and former Managing Director of ASX listed Abra Mining Ltd. He has also held senior management positions in other large mining companies such as China Minmetals Corporation where he was the Project Lead – Geology & Mining in the Las Bambas Copper-Gold Mine in Peru. Dr Wang has been in Australia for more than 10 years and has extensive experience in the mining and resources sector in Australia, China and Peru.

Dr Chen is a mining engineer with more than 35 years’ experience in metal mining. He has had a wide range of roles in the mining industry including technical, production and management positions in Australia, China and Canada.

Dr Chen held executive roles with Sino Gold (General Manager), Citic Pacific Mining (Chief Operating Officer), CaNickel (Executive Director and CEO) and Norton Goldfields (Managing Director and CEO) and served as a Non-Executive Director for several publicly listed companies in Australia and Canada including Kalgoorlie Mining Corporation, Bullabulling Gold Mines, Sherwin Iron, Norton Goldfields, NKWE Platinum and CuDeco Limited.

Dr Chen is currently a Non-Executive Director of Global Lithium Resources Limited (ASX: GL1).

Dr Chen holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and PhD in Mining Geomechanics. He has a WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency.