Board of Directors
Hugh Callaghan
BCom, LLB, LLM
Experience
Non-Executive Chairman since 23 June 2006 and Executive Chairman since 1 November 2006. Mr Callaghan was previously Managing Director of ASX listed Riversdale Mining Limited (RIV) – June 04 to August 06. Riversdale is a coal mining company based in Sydney. He previously held a range of positions within Rio Tinto Plc and Xstrata Plc, with a focus on the copper industry that included working with several major copper mining and processing operations around the world. This included a year's secondment to the management team of Escondida Copper in Chile, the largest copper mine in the world. Mr Callaghan has extensive experience in the commercial development of mining businesses focused on commodities ranging from base metals to coal.
Managing Director
Mike Fischer
B. Min Tech (Hons)
Experience
Managing Director since 21st August 2007, Mike Fischer has a long and distinguished track record in mining that includes executive level operational and project management, in gold and base metals operations in South Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. After graduating from Otago University with First Class Honours, and numerous academic awards, he spent a number of years in South Africa with Gencor Mining (now Gold Fields Ltd), rising to senior management positions in several very large gold mines. On returning from South Africa, Michael served as Resident Manager at Normandy Woodcutters` mine, then General Manager Operations at Dome Resources' Tolukuma Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea.
Prior to joining Tamaya Resources, Mike spent 6 years as General Manager Operations at CBH Resources during which time he was an integral part of that Company's growth from an explorer to an operating company with a pipeline of growth projects.
Glenn Kondo
Finance Director
BComm, CA
Glenn Kondo is an accomplished executive with resource sector experience in the areas of finance, strategy, mergers and acquisitions as well as organisational improvement.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Mr Kondo joined Minorco, a subsidiary of the Anglo American group in 1994 in Luxembourg, and then held various senior finance positions within Anglo American plc in London, following its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1999. Mr Kondo transferred to Tarmac in 2003, Anglo American’s industrial minerals division, to lead the finance and M&A teams until joining Tamaya in 2007.
At Tamaya Resources, Mr Kondo is responsible for all key finance functions, including all group funding requirements, and leading Tamaya’s listing on the TSX.
Non-Executive Director
Jim Squire
MA (Oxon)
Experience
Independent non-executive Director since 16th October 2006, Mr. Squire has extensive senior executive level experience with some of the worlds leading mining houses, including over 30 years experience within the Rio Tinto group of companies.
After leaving Oxford, Jim joined The Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd in London in 1970. He initially worked with Australian Mining and Smelting Europe Ltd, a newly formed company which intergrated Rio Tinto's Broken Hill mines with their smelters in Europe, becoming a director of AM & S Europe in 1978.
In 1982 Jim joined BP Minerals with responsibility for marketing BP's metal and mineral assets which included a 49% share of the new Olympic Dam copper/uranium mine in South Australia. With the acquisition of BP Minerals in 1989, Jim re-joined Rio Tinto plc subsequently becoming Head of the Commercial Department and latterly Managing Director of Rio Tinto Marketing Services Ltd. Jim has long and broad international experience of the mining industry and of commodities. He has been a board member of various Rio Tinto subsidiary companies including Rio Tinto do Brasil, Norzink, Zinkgruvan, Eurallumina and Rio Tinto Aluminium. He has also served as a Board member of the International Copper Association (New York) and as Deputy Chairman of the European Copper Institute (Brussels).
Non-Executive Director
Richard Palmer
BE (Hons), MBA
Experience
Non-executive Director since 23 June 2006. Mr Palmer has over 18 years of commercial and operational experience in the domestic and international resources sectors. He is currently involved in corporate advisory and investment banking based in Sydney. Previous resources roles include CEO and Director of Pine Valley Mining Corporation (PVM) then listed on the venture Exchange in Canada and VP of business development for
Peabody Energy Corporation in the US.
Non-Executive Director
John W. W. Hick
B.A., LLB.
Experience
Independent non-executive director of Tamaya since February 22, 2008. Mr. Hick has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry, in both senior management positions and as an independent director; he has been predominately based in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Hick is currently non-executive Chairman of Silver Eagle Mines Inc. a TSX listed junior mining company, which is primarily concentrating on developing a silver-base metal property in Mexico. He is also an independent director of Carpathian Gold Inc.,
First Uranium Corp., Hudson Resources Inc., Revett Minerals Inc. and, since June 2008, Marengo Mining Ltd.
From December 2004 to January 2006, he was the CEO of Rio Narcea Gold Mines Ltd. From 2001 Mr. Hick was President and CEO of Defiance Mining Corp. and its predecessor company, until it was acquired by Rio Narcea in 2004.
In addition, Mr. Hick has had significant experience in the restructuring of companies
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