Board and Management Team

Mr Flint, BAcc, FGIA and MBA is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in the corporate and financial services arena. He has held a number of management and senior administrative positions as well as providing corporate advisory services as a consultant to corporate clients. 

Mr McGoldrick is a long-term shareholder of the Company and an experienced corporate lawyer and company director. Mr McGoldrick has broad experience in project development, corporate governance, company restructures and investor engagement. Mr McGoldrick is currently Chairman of Australasian Metals Limited (ASX:A8G) and is a founding shareholder and director of several unlisted mining and energy companies.

Mr Smith is a Petroleum Geoscientist who has held commercial and senior management roles with a number of ASX listed oil and gas companies. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Pancontinental Energy NL (ASX:PCL) prior to which he was Managing Director of Norwest Energy NL. Norwest Energy enjoyed significant exploration success within the Perth Basin and was ultimately acquired by Mineral Resources Limited in 2023. During Mr Smith's tenure the company's market capitalisation rose from approximately $7 million to over $500 million.

Mr Garzon Rangel is an industrial engineer and energy economist with over 15 years international experience in sourcing, managing and promoting oil and gas and mineral exploration projects. Mr Garzon Rangel completed his bachelor degree of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas in Bogota Colombia and his MSc in Energy Economics and Management from Curtin University. Ricardo is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Mr. LIU, obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering from Southeast University, China and a MBA from a joint program between APESMA & Deakin University, Australia. Mr. LIU joined General Electric in 1997 from Contact Energy New Zealand, and served as the various Asia Pacific leadership positions, including sourcing leader, six-sigma master black belt, and energy services sales director. He was the general manager of South China, HK & Macau for GE Consumer & Industrial before he joined his family business in 2008 and later he devoted mostly to his investment practice. Mr. LIU has extensive knowledge of Asia Pacific region. He brings rich experience in various management areas including sourcing, people development and management process improvement.

Mr Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts, is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and has over 16 years’ primary and secondary capital markets expertise. He is a director and co-founder of Minerva Corporate, a boutique corporate services and advisory firm. Mr Smith is currently non-executive director for several companies on AIM/ASX operating in the resources sector, with a focus on critical minerals.

Mr Kay holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia and is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Western Australia and England & Wales. He is an experienced corporate lawyer and corporate adviser with over 16 years’ experience in equity capital markets, M&A and resources gained through both private practice and inhouse roles in Australia and the UK. He has previously held a number of non-executive and company secretarial roles for ASX listed mining and energy companies and has advised on over a dozen IPOs/RTOs on the ASX.