David Paterson

Executive Director, Chief Executive since 2005 / Latrobe Magnesium

David Paterson is a qualified non-practising Chartered Accountant, a director of Europacific Corporate Advisory, and has held an Investment Dealers Licence since 1990.

Prior to forming Europacific in 1990, Mr Paterson was a group manager of the corporate services division of Tricontinental Corporation where he was responsible for NSW and Queensland. He also worked for Coopers & Lybrand in their corporate services division, and was involved in a wide range of corporate advisory assignments and underwritings of debt and equity for a number of public and private companies involved in the mining and property industries.

Mr Paterson was a founding partner of the Latrobe Magnesium project in 2000. He was appointed a director in August 2002 and as chief executive in 2005.