Board and Senior Management

Michael Atkins (Non-Executive Director & Chairman)

Mr Atkins is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and was a founding partner of a national Chartered Accounting practice from 1979 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been involved with the formation of, and capital raising for, many emerging companies. He has acted as Chairman, Director and Corporate Advisor in both publicly listed and private companies, and has been an executive director of numerous publicly listed Australian resource companies with operations in SE Asia, Africa, North America and Australia including Gallery Gold Ltd, Claremont Petroleum Ltd, Beach Petroleum Ltd and Marion Energy Ltd.

Mr Atkins is also currently non-executive Chairman of Legend Mining Ltd and Azumah Resources Limited, both Australian Securities Exchange listed gold and base metals exploration companies.

 

Scott Huffadine (Managing Director)

Mr Huffadine is a geologist (BSc. (Hons)) with over 18 years' experience in the resources industry, specifically in mining project management and geology.  He was an Executive Director of Metals X Limited since June 2009, and was the Chief Operating Officer of the same company for the two years prior to this.  Prior to joining Metals X, he was employed by Harmony Gold Australia Pty Ltd as the General Manager of the Hill 50 Gold Project for 4 years which included the assets that encompass the current Central Murchison Gold Project.

Mr Huffadine's previous roles have seen him manage operational start-ups for open pit and underground mining operations, as well as the operational management of large scale going concerns in a number of regulatory environments and commodities.

 

Andrew Beckwith (Executive Director - Exploration)

Mr Beckwith is a geologist with over 20 years exploration and development experience.  Prior to joining Westgold he was a Director of Navarre Resources Pty Ltd. From 1988 to 1997 he worked North Flinders Mines exploring and developing the gold projects in the Tanami region of the Northern Territory. He then worked with Helix Resources on the exploration of the Gawler Craton before joining Acacia Resources in 1998 moving to AngloGold Australia when Acacia was taken over by AngloGold.

Andrew has extensive experience in exploration and development for gold and base metals throughout WA, SA and NT.

 

Peter Cook (Non-Executive Director)

Mr Cook is a geologist (BSc (Applied Geology)) and mineral economist (MSc (Min. Econ)) and is the Chairman and former Managing Director of Metals X Limited and a Non-Executive Director of Aragon Resources Limited. In recent years he has been the Managing Director of Hill 50 Limited, the Chief Executive Officer of Harmony Gold Australia Pty Ltd, the Managing Director of Abelle Limited and the Chairman of Metals Exploration Limited. He has considerable experience in the fields of exploration and project and corporate management of mining companies.

 

Warren Hallam (Non-Executive Director)

Mr Hallam is a Metallurgist and Mineral Economist with over 25 years experience across a range of business and commodity markets. Notably Mr Hallam brings to Westgold both his extensive commercial experience and his involvement with the development and commissioning of processing plants specifically within the gold industry. Mr Hallam’s commercial acumen and technical expertise compliments the current skill set of the Westgold board.

In recent years Mr Hallam has been the Managing Director of Metals Exploration Limited, an Executive Director of Metals X Limited and is currently the Managing Director of Metals X Limited.

 

Andrew Chapman (Company Secretary)

Mr Chapman is a chartered accountant with over 17 years experience with publicly listed companies where he has held positions as Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer and has experience in the areas of corporate acquisitions, divestments and capital raisings. He has worked for a number of public companies in the mineral resources, oil and gas and technology sectors.

Mr Chapman is also Company Secretary for two other publicly companies. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).