Western Australian born entrepreneur and philanthropist Brendan commenced his career in real estate and property development. After success at a young age, he relocated to Zambia in 2013 to dedicate his time to his charity, Health Hope Zambia, by developing the country’s largest malnutrition hospital with the assistance of his charity ambassador, Gene Simmons, and continued to establish the country’s largest not-for-profit ambulance and mobile medical clinic service.

Brendan’s first mining investment was in the Zambian mining sector to facilitate growth in several corporate responsibility programs he had established. He is the CEO and co-founder of several Zambia-based mining development and exploration companies that have a range of projects from reprocessing of high grade Copper and Cobalt tailings ore, to large scale exploration for base and precious metals.

Mr Bahen is a director and equity partner of SmallCap Corporate and chartered secretary who commenced his career in audit and assurance with an international chartered accounting firm. He is currently a non-executive director and company secretary to a number of ASX-listed companies and has a broad range of corporate governance and capital markets experience, having been involved with public company listings, mergers and acquisitions transactions and capital raisings for ASX-listed companies across the resource industry. Mr Bahen is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia and holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in accounting and finance.

As Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Queensland, Ken Collerson is an internationally recognised and highly cited, geologist and geochemist with technical expertise that focusses on discovery of new ethically sourced supplies of critical minerals. He has expert knowledge of rare earth and critical metal mineral systems as well as trace element and isotope analytical techniques. In the 1980’s as a consultant to Union Oil, Ken showed that the Mount Weld carbonatite, now being exploited by Lynas Rare Earths Limited, was post Archaean in age. He also provided key geochemical consultant services to Pacific Wildcat Resources Corporation for their Mrima Hill carbonatite regolith-hosted REE-Nd deposit in Kenya. While undertaking research in the 1970’s he discovered the peralkaline igneous suite that hosts the Strange Lake heavy REE rich deposit on the border of Labrador and Quebec.

Robbie Featherby is a Corporate Advisory Executive who holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Finance and Economics. Mr Featherby has an extensive number of years’ experience in the financial services industry, more recently spending 4 years in London working at a leading investment research provider in the private equity sector.

Mr Featherby now provides company secretary services for a number of private and public companies.

Alannah MacTiernan works closely with governments and industry to promote North Stanmore Heavy Rare Earth Project as well as policy analysis and monitor legislation for critical minerals projects.

In her 13 years as a WA Minister, Alannah has played an active role in bringing many resource projects on stream. She played a critical role in the Pilbara Iron Ore expansion 2003 -2008 and in the development of the iron ore exports in the MidWest region. She has actively supported critical minerals projects throughout Western Australia.

Alannah is a former member of the WA and Federal Parliaments and is well known for her role as WA Minister for Planning and Infrastructure where she oversaw many significant civil projects across the State, including the Perth to Mandurah Rail Line.

During Alannah’s political career she served as minister for regional development, minister for agriculture, minister for ports and minister for hydrogen industry and is set to bring invaluable experience to the Company.