Dowling and Malcolm join Pura Vida

Pura Vida Energy has named Jeff Dowling as its new chairman and Ric Malcolm as a non-executive director, with current chairman Bevan Tarratt to resign from the board but remain in an executive role.

Mr Dowling, previously managing partner at EY's Perth office, is the current chairman of Sirius Resources and a non-executive director of Atlas Iron and NRW Holdings.