Board Of Directors
James McClements BEc (Hons)
Chairman (Member of Audit and Risk Management Committee and Chairman of Corporate Governance, Appointments and Remuneration Committee)
James McClements has served as a director and Chairman of QMAG since 7 October 2004. He is the Senior Partner and Member of the Investment Committee of Resource Capital Funds based in Denver, Colorado. He heads the Funds' management company, RCF Management and is chiefly responsible for implementation of the Funds' investment strategy. James has extensive experience in resource finance and particularly investing in junior mining companies globally. Prior to the launch of Resource Capital Fund L.P. in 1998, he was Senior Vice President and Director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Denver) Ltd. and was responsible for North American resource banking. Previously he was with Rothschild Australia Limited in Sydney for four years, specializing in financing junior mining companies and other natural resource lending. His background also includes work with Standard Chartered Bank Australia Limited as a resource industry credit analyst and with the Broken Hill Proprietary mining company. James grew up in a mining town in Western Australia and attended university as a part of a BHP scholarship program. He holds an honors degree in Economics from the University of Western Australia.
Robert Auld BSc Ceramic Engineering (Hons)
Non executive Director (Chairman of the Health, Safety, Environment and Technical Committee)
Bob Auld has served as a non executive director of QMAG since 15 February 2006. After a career which started out in brick-making, he worked in a number of executive management roles in several industrial minerals operations in Australia, Malaysia and China,. This included two years in China in the zinc dust industrial minerals sector for the Brussels based Umicore Group after four years with Normandy Industrial Minerals Ltd at its Larvik pigment business in Malaysia during the time when it was acquired by Umicore. Before leaving Australia in 1998, Bob was General Manager Business Development for Normandy Industrial Minerals in Brisbane after more than six years with QMAG, leaving the role of Production Manager at Parkhurst in 1997 to join QMAG's parent company at that time. Prior to this he was area manager with Davey McKee during the construction of QMAG's processing facilities after four years as Managing Director of Claypave Pty Ltd in Brisbane.
Ronald H Beevor, BA(Hons)
Non executive Director (Chairman of the Audit & Risk Management Committee)
Ronnie Beevor has served as a non executive director of QMAG since 30 May 2005. Ronnie is a former investment banker and was Head of Investment Banking at NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited between 1997 and 2002. He has had an extensive involvement with the natural resources industry, both in Australia and internationally. He is also a director of Oxiana Limited, Bendigo Mining Limited and EMED Mining Public Limited (listed on AIM, London). Mr Beevor has an Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and qualified as a chartered accountant in London in 1972.
Michael Dean BEng (Electrical) (Hons) GDip Bus GDip Risk Mgmt
Non-executive Director (Member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and member of the Health, Safety, Environment and Technical Committee)
Mike Dean has served as a director of QMAG from 17 February 2005. Since 2004 he has been a senior engineer and director of Axial Consulting in Perth W.A. providing engineering consultancy services for project management, risk management and risk engineering in the resources sector. His previous experience in risk management included the role of Manager Operations Integrity with Total Automation Pty Ltd and Technical Risk Consultant and Engineer with AIG Group for three years where he had been involved in risk assessments for major clients in the resources industry. Mike was with Hatch Associates until 2000, a spin out of BHP Engineering where he worked in a variety of roles during the 1990s, including the hot briquetted iron project at Port Headland for almost five years. After working with BHP in its iron ore operations as an electrical engineer in the mid 1980s, he worked in the UK for more than a year before re-joining BHP in its engineering arm. Mike is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a member of the Risk Engineering Society (part of Engineers Australia) and a member of the Society for Risk Analysis.
David Manchester BSc
Non-executive Director (Member of the Corporate Governance, Appointments and Remuneration Committee and member of the Health, Safety, Environment and Technical Committee)
Dave Manchester has served as a Director since 17 February 2005. He is the former CEO of Baker Refractories for 20 years until 2001 after six years as CFO and two years with the company before this time. He retired in 2001 after the sale of the business to LWB Refractories, part of the Lhoist SA group of Belgium. Dave became CEO of Baker at the time of a management buy-out and repositioned and directed the expansion of the company from annual turnover of $18m pa in 1981,to approximately $200m pa by 2001. Before his career with Baker, Dave was a consultant with AT Kearney for seven years based in Chicago after completing studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
John Reid PhD (Met Eng) BSc (Hons) MBA FAIMM FIE
Non-executive Director (Member of the Corporate Governance, Appointments and Remuneration Committee and member of the Health, Safety, Environment and Technical Committee)
John Reid has served as a Director since 17 February 2005. Since 1998, he has been the principal of Reid Resource Consulting Pty Ltd which specialises in due diligence studies for IPO's and buy-outs, undertakes feasibility studies, evaluates capital and operating costs, and provides expert witness testimony and technical and investment advice on hydrometallurgical and other matters to mining companies. Prior to running his own consultancy, John worked for more than 20 years with Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd (QNI Limited) rising through the ranks from Technical Manager to General Manager Technical and Marketing, EGM, Executive Director and finally Director. Before QNI, John was an adjunct professor in hydrometallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines and worked as a process engineer for Peko Wallsend Ltd at Mount Morgan in Queensland. John has consulted to a number of world renowned resource projects including the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt project in the Congo, nickel laterite projects including Cawse, Murrin Murrin, Bulong and Ravensthorpe in WA and the Ramu project in PNG, the Las Camarocas nickel project in Cuba, Niquelandia nickel in Brazil, Yabulu nickel in Qld, the Australian Magnesium project in Qld, Lihir Gold in PNG and the Phosphate Hill fertiliser project in Qld. He has been or is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers in Australia, a former Chairman of the Nickel Development Institute and Chairman of CSIRO QCAT Division of Advanced Technology.
Alan Roughead BEc (Hons)
Managing Director
Alan Roughead was appointed a director on 17 December 2004. As Managing Director he is responsible for the management of the whole business comprising the magnesite mine at Kunwarara, the magnesia processing plant at Parkhurst, the corporate office in Brisbane and the regional sales and marketing offices in Lübeck and Shanghai. Alan joined QMAG in 1991 and was General Manager, Marketing up until the end of 1999. He was appointed General Manager with profit centre responsibility for the entire QMAG business at the beginning of 2000 and worked in this position until RCF acquired the business at the end of 2004. Alan worked closely with RCF during their 12 month due diligence phase to facilitate the sale and purchase of the business. Prior to joining QMAG, he worked for CSR Limited for nine years in international sales, marketing, business development and finance roles.