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 acted as Executive Director of, and been involved in the executive management of several publicly listed resources companies with operations in Australia, USA, South East Asia and Africa. He was Managing Director of Claremont Petroleum NL and Beach Petroleum NL during 1990 and 1991 during their reconstruction, and then remained as a non executive Director until 1995. He was also founding Executive Chairman of Gallery Gold NL in 1993 until 1998, and remained a Non-Executive Director until 2000.
He is currently Chairman of Montagu Capital Ltd, the holding company for Montagu Stockbrokers Pty Ltd, the Non-Executive chairman of Legend Mining Limited and a Non-Executive director of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Resources Limited.
Andrew Beckwith (Managing Director)
Mr Beckwith is a geologist with 18 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 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.
Mark Okeby (Non-Executive Director)
Mr Okeby LLM, is a Non-Executive Director of Metals X Limited. He is a lawyer with considerable experience in the resources industry and he has been a director of a number of listed public companies. In recent years he has been an Executive Director of Hill 50 Ltd, Abelle Limited and Metals Exploration Limited and a Non-Executive Director of Lynas Corporation Ltd.
Andrew Chapman (Company Secretary)
Mr Chapman is a chartered accountant with over 16 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 listed companies. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).