Warren Staude

Warren Staude is a graduate of the University of Sydney (B.Sc., geology), Macquarie University (M.Sc., mineral economics) and holds a Graduate Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is currently the representative of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) on the Joint Ore Reserves Committee and brings to the Company a wealth of experience in the Australian financial markets.

Mr Staude has over 45 years professional experience in the mining, exploration and resource finance industries. He has worked in Government, as a private consultant and on the Academic staff at Macquarie University. He later joined the AMP Society's resource investment team, where he was involved in evaluating the operational and financial performance of numerous resource operations. He also spent some time in the stockbroking industry, before joining GIO Australia Asset Management, where he managed GIO's listed and direct resource equity investments in Australia and internationally. He is currently a non-executive director of several other listed resource companies and is a consultant with Taurus Funds Management.