Mr Cordin was appointed Managing Director on 20 March 2006. He is a civil engineer with 35 years experience in the evaluation and operation of resource projects within Australia and overseas.

He has direct experience in the construction and management of diamond and gold operations in Australia and Indonesia. Mr Cordin was Managing Director of Grant’s Patch Mining Limited (100,000 ounce gold per year production) and was Director – Operations of Forsayth NL, responsible for all group operations in Australia involving the annual production of 320,000 ounces of gold from five mines. He has more recently been involved in the development of resource projects in Kazakhstan and New Caledonia. Mr Cordin is a Non-Executive Director of Coal of Africa Limited and Vital Metals Limited.

Mr Cordin is a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee.