Board of Directors

FAIM, ACA, B Com (Hons)

Mr Sanjay Loyalka has experience in various functional roles including CEO, General Management, and Corporate finance experience in mining and metals, manufacturing, and logistics based industries in a multinational environment.

Mr Loyalka is the founder of Investment advisory firm IACG Pty Ltd in Australia which has been engaged in cross border MandA, strategic consulting as well as a mineral commodity trading business.
As the founding CEO and Managing Director, he was instrumental in the development of the Aditya Birla Group’s operations within Australia. He led the acquisition of Nifty and Mount Gordon Copper mines, successful development of the Nifty Sulphide project (a remote site, 2.5 million TPA underground mine, concentrator plant and associated infrastructure) and operational restructure of Mount Gordon Copper Operations. These led to a successful listing of the Company on the Australian Securities Exchange under an IPO raising $300 million and inclusion in the ASX S&P 300 index.
Mr Loyalka has been a member of the Executive Council of Chamber of Minerals and Energy (Western Australia) in 2005 and 2006.

Mr. Beazley is a highly experienced Mining Engineer . He is a mining industry executive with a strong technical background and substantial experience in corporate and operational management and leadership. He has significant experience in Australia, Africa and South America. Previous roles include Chief Operating Officer for Sandfire Resources (ASX: SFR); Managing Director of Peak Resources Ltd (ASX: PEK); General Manager Operations at Consolidated Minerals; General Manager Southern Cross Operations at St Barbara Limited.

Mr. Busbridge is a Geologist with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry including managerial positions in Normandy Mining Ltd, Barrick Gold Australia and Teck Australia and has made several gold discoveries in both greenfields and brownfields terrains.

He has an invaluable mix of gold, nickel, copper, lead and zinc, lithium, REEs, graphite and diamond exploration experience throughout Australia coupled with several years as a mine / development geologist in gold and nickel mines.

Mr. Bennett is a mining industry executive with a strong technical background and substantial experience in project management and leadership. He has significant experience in Australia, Africa, Canada and Southeast Asia, with a proven track record of successful discovery and acquisition. Previous roles include Technical Director for Shree Minerals, General Manager Exploration for Endeavour Mining in West Africa and Technical Director at Kalgoorlie Mine Management. He was Exploration Manager at KGL Resources when the Rockface copper deposit was discovered at Jervois project in the NT and discovered the Marble Bar lithium resource held by Global Lithium Resources.