Nautilus Minerals Inc. - Board & Management

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Recent Updates

11-Jan-12 - Nautilus Signs Contract For Eastern Pacific Exploration Tenements (more...)
09-Jan-12 - Sale of Shares by Non-executive Director (more...)
29-Dec-11 - Report On Updated Resource Filed (more...)


	Directors

	A. Geoffrey Loudon (Chairman and Non-Executive Director) Mr. Loudon is a New Zealand based resource professional with qualifications in geology and engineering. His extensive international experience covers resource exploration,development and production as well as investment banking. Mr. Loudon has worked worldwide including Australasia, Asia, the Americas and Europe . Geoff Loudon is Executive Chairman of the private New Zealand based L&M Group of minerals and energy companies as well as Chairman of ASX and NZX listed hydrocarbon explorer L&M Energy. He is a director of the Papua New Guinea based PNG City Mission. Mr . Loudon was founder and Chairman of Niugini Mining Limited , discoverer of the Lihir gold deposit in PNG which was developed by RIO TINTO in 1995. Mr Loudon was a founding director of Lihir Gold Limited from inception in 1995 until it was taken over in 2010. Professional affiliations include Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists , Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Member of the American Institute of Mining and Exploration.

	Stephen Rogers (President, CEO and Executive Director) Mr. Rogers has been the President and CEO of the Nautilus Minerals Group since June 2008. His primary focus is on permitting, financing and the development of the Company's first project, Solwara 1. This is the first step in taking Nautilus from its position as a junior explorer to being the world's first seafloor minerals resource production company. Mr Rogers joined Nautilus in 2007 as Chief Development Officer, responsible for the definition and execution of the Solwara 1 Development Project in Papua New Guinea. He has 35 years of experience in the offshore industry with a background in corporate and project management. Before joining Nautilus he worked with Clough (one of Australia's leading engineering and construction companies) as CEO Oil and Gas, and prior to that he was MD of Technip Oceania, Europe's leading oil and gas services group and one of the world's leading deepwater subsea contractors.

	David De Witt (Non-Executive Director) Mr. De Witt is a founder and the chairman of Pathway Capital Ltd., a private venture capital firm, and is involved in all aspects of its investment activity including analysis of investment opportunities, negotiation and structuring of transactions and fundraising activities. Prior to forming Pathway Capital Ltd., Mr. De Witt was a partner in a venture capital corporation where he was involved in strategic planning, acquisitions and investment decisions. Mr. De Witt also spent 15 years as a practicing lawyer specializing in corporate and securities law, initially with Clark Wilson in Vancouver and thereafter as a founding partner in his own law firm. He was previously a Director and Corporate Secretary of Arequipa Resources., which was acquired by Barrick Gold in 1996. Additionally, Mr. De Witt was a founder of and Director of Peru Copper, which was acquired by the Aluminium Corporation of China in 2007. Mr. De Witt is currently a Director of Bear Creek Mining Corp., Sandstorm Gold and Sandstorm Metals and Energy.

	Russell Debney (Non-Executive Director) Mr. Debney was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nautilus Minerals Niugini Limited and Nautilus Minerals Oceania Limited prior to the acquisition of those companies by Nautilus. He has been actively involved in Nautilus' development strategy, almost since inception. He is based in Sydney, Australia and is a commercial and corporate lawyer as well as a Director of a number of companies in the mining and resources industry. Mr. Debney has extensive experience in the management, financing and structuring of resource projects, particularly in the offshore environment. He was a Director and Senior Vice President of the Global Engineering Group, a world leading offshore oil and gas engineering company for almost 15 years. Mr Debney is currently a director and Chief Executive Officer of Direct Nickel Pty Ltd., a mining company with a revolutionary new hydrometallurgical process for treating nickel laterites.

	Matthew Hammond (Non-Executive Director) Mr Hammond is the Group Strategist at Metalloinvest Holdings, where he has responsibility for part of the non-core asset portfolio. Matthew advises the Metalloinvest Board on strategic acquisitions and investments. Prior to joining Metalloinvest, Mr Hammond was a Director at Credit Suisse, where he worked for 12 years. He has a BA (Hons) from Bristol University in economics and history. As a non-executive director he also sits on the boards of Strike Resources, Mail.ru and Puricore Plc.

	Cynthia Thomas (Non-Executive Director) Ms. Thomas joined the Board of Directors in June 2010. She has 28 years of banking and mine finance experience, and currently acts as Principal of Conseil Advisory Services Inc. ("Conseil"), an independent financial advisory firm specialising in the natural resource industry which she founded in 2000. Prior to founding Conseil, Ms. Thomas worked with Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank and ScotiaMcLeod in the corporate and investment banking divisions. Ms. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. Ms. Thomas was formerly a Director of PolyMet Mining Corp. and is currently a Director and Chair of Victory Nickel Inc., Director of KWG Resources Inc. and a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for Ferrinov Inc., a private corporation.

	Management

	Anthony O'Sullivan (Chief Operating Officer) Mr. O'Sullivan joined Nautilus as Vice-President - Corporate Development and later became Chief Operating Officer. Mr. O'Sullivan has over 20 years of industry experience, 15 of which were with BHP Billiton. A member of the BHP Billiton Exploration Management Team since 2001, he managed the company's base metal and Bulk commodities (iron ore, coal, bauxite) exploration effort. Mr O'Sullivan has wide experience in mineral exploration and development and has been involved in the discovery and development of iron ore, base metal, coal and tantalite deposits.

	Shontel Norgate (Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary) Prior to joining Nautilus, Ms. Norgate was the financial controller of Macarthur Coal Ltd., which is a publicly-listed coal mining company on the Australian Securities Exchange. Before joining Macarthur, Ms. Norgate was the financial controller of a listed exploration company for seven years and commenced her career as an auditor with a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Australia. Ms. Norgate is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Chartered Secretaries of Australia. Ms. Norgate has 14 years commercial experience in the resources industry including debt and equity finance, financial reporting, project management, corporate governance, commercial negotiations and business analysis

	Michael Johnston (Vice-President Strategic Development and Exploration) Michael Johnston was formerly General Manager for Exploration with Placer Dome Asia Pacific, where he oversaw Placer Dome's exploration efforts in Australia and Asia, as a senior member of Placer Dome's exploration and Asia-Pacific operations management team. Prior to this role, Mr. Johnston was technical services manager for Placer Dome at the massive Porgera Gold Mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he managed the technical teams responsible for exploration, geology, geotech and engineering within the 210,000 tonnes per day open pit and 3,000 tonnes per day underground operations. With over 20 years experience in the mining industry, the last 11 of which with Placer Dome, Mr. Johnston brings to Nautilus a strong knowledge of the mining industry, people, decision makers, and laws throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He also has extensive ore reserve and project evaluation experience, a track record of finding ore bodies, and a strong understanding of all aspects of deep sea mining, through his management of Placer Dome's involvement in the Solwara projects.

	Glen Smith (Chief Technology Officer) Glen Smith joined Nautilus as Chief Technology Officer in January 2009. Mr. Smith has over 23 years experience in the offshore oil and gas or seafloor mineral production industries which comprises of 11 years with Technip (Perth / Paris) and 5 years with both Single Buoy Moorings (Monaco) and Clough Engineering (Perth). He has extensive project experience involving the development and use of innovative design and construction techniques to execute projects in challenging and remote environments. Mr. Smith's industry experience includes deep and shallow water projects and floating production facilities. During the latter part of his employment at Technip, Mr. Smith worked as Project Manager on large (up to AUD$250 million) multi-disciplinary subsea oil and gas projects. Previously, he worked as engineering manager at Technip Oceania responsible for development and management of the company's engineering. Mr. Smith has broad international experience which includes 9 years in Europe and project execution in the North Sea, West Africa and throughout Australasia.

	Joseph Dowling (VP Investor Relations & Communications) Mr Dowling is a widely experienced communications professional, with extensive experience in financial markets. His initial career was in financial journalism, and he filled senior roles at the Australian Financial Review and other Australian news organisations before moving into corporate communications roles with Suncorp and then Lihir Gold Ltd. At Lihir he was GM Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations for five years, managing the global communications functions across the company including internal communications, media relations and investor relations.

	Mel Togolo (PNG Country Manager) Mr. Togolo has over 30 years of experience in senior roles, working for industry and government both in Papua New Guinea and abroad. He is on the Executive Business Council of Papua New Guinea. Mr. Togolo has represented industry at the board level, including roles at Westpac-PNG Limited, Highlands Gold Limited and Bougainville Copper Limited, and was also Deputy Chairman of the Investment Promotion Authority of Papua New Guinea. In January of 2004, Mr. Togolo was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to commerce and industry. Prior to his appointment at Nautilus he worked for ten years as the General Manager of Corporate Affairs at Placer Dome Niugini Limited.

	Paul Taumoepeau (Tonga Country Manager) Mr Taumoepeau grew up in Tonga before leaving to study overseas. He returned to Tonga in 1992 and has now over 16 years experience working in the public and private sector. Mr Taumoepeau spent 13 years with the National Reserve Bank of Tonga, where he worked in numerous roles including setting up domestic market and corporate services systems. Prior to his appointment at Nautilus he worked for Leiola Group Limited which is the only duty free operator in Tonga, where he was the General Manager in his last 2 years. Mr Taumoepeau has been President of the Tonga Chamber of Commerce & Industry since 2008 and was elected to the board of the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) in 2010.