The Board comprises individuals with an appropriate mix of skills and experience.

Non-Executive Chairman
Alister T Maitland, FAIM SFFin FAICD BCom

Alister Maitland is a former Executive Director of the ANZ Banking Group Ltd. His long and distinguished banking career enabled him to garner a wealth of banking experience in international markets including Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. His professional experience has included overseeing global business expansion, internal and external consulting and treasury projects.

He has been a member of several Federal Government Advisory Bodies, including the White Paper on Foreign Policy and Trade and a member of the Trade Policy Advisory Council.

He is the Chairman or non-executive director of a number of companies (some are ASX listed) covering a wide range of activities including property services, mining and health. He is an adjunct professor of global sustainability at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Group Managing Director
CRS Paragash, FCA (England & Wales)

CRS Paragash is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England & Wales) and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has had a long association with the plantations industry and, in particular, the Palm Oil industry. His considerable experience in dealing with financial, operational and logistical issues while with the plantations division of Sime Darby Bhd (an international conglomerate) in Sabah and in other business ventures enables him to combine sound technical skills with a practical, hands on approach to general management. He has been a successful private equity investor involved in infrastructure and property for over 15 years.

Group Executive Director
Andrew Phang, FFin LLM (Melb) LLB (Syd)

Andrew Phang is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. A lawyer by training, he practised law in Australia and Malaysia before joining an investment bank in Malaysia. During the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, he was invited to become a member of the project team that established Danaharta, Malaysia’s national non-performing loans resolution agency, and was subsequently part of the senior management team at Danaharta. He currently sits in a non-executive capacity on the Board of the Credit Management and Counselling Agency, a subsidiary of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia.

Non-Executive Director
Adam Sierakowski

Adam Sierakowski is a lawyer and partner of the Perth based legal firm of Price Sierakowski. He has over 12 years experience in legal practice, much of which he has spent as a corporate lawyer consulting and advising on a range of transactions to a variety of large private and listed public entities. He has advised and guided many companies undertaking fundraising activities in Australia and seeking to list on the ASX. In addition, he has been retained as an advisor to many corporate reconstructions, mergers and acquisitions. He is the co-founder of Perth based corporate advisory business Trident Capital.

In the past Mr Sierakowski has held a number of board positions on ASX listed companies. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies.

The Board is supported by a qualified Company Secretary:

Company Secretary
Susan Hunter, BCom, ACA, FFSIA (Dip), MAICD (Dip), ACIS (Dip)

Susan Hunter is a Member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has over 14 years experience in the corporate finance industry including senior management roles in a financial institution and major public accounting firms in both Perth and Sydney.

Ms Hunter is also a Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and Chartered Secretaries Australia. She is currently an Associate Director of consulting firm Norvest Corporate Pty Ltd as well as Company Secretary for three other Australian Stock Exchange listed companies, an AIM listed company and several unlisted companies.