Chief Operating Officer

Leon Hawker

Leon Hawker has more than 30 years experience in the Australian petroleum, transport and logistics industries with BP/Castrol and Toll Transport, holding senior positions in Technical Services, Administration, Customer Service and Sales. His career has focussed on dealings with both the mining and agricultural industries.
 
Leon has led large national teams, specialising in the Commercial/B2B sector and held Directorships while always maintaining close relationships with individual customers, mines, landholders, rural businesses and communities and, at times, dealing with community safety and environmental standards.
 
Leon is a landholder in rural Victoria where he is heavily involved with the local Landcare and rural Country Fire Authority (CFA).

His experience in managing strategic partnerships for the benefit of both parties will be an invaluable asset for ABx in ensuring good relationships with landholders and meeting ABx’s commitment to social and environmental responsibility in local communities, becoming a good corporate citizen wherever it operates.

Joint Company Secretaries

Henry Kinstlinger

Henry Kinstlinger has been actively involved in the financial and corporate management of a number of public companies and non-governmental organisations for the past twenty-five years. He is a corporate consultant with broad experience in investor and community relations and corporate and statutory compliance.

David L Hughes

Mr Hughes is currently the company secretary for a number of ASX listed public companies including Latrobe Magnesium Limited, Hudson Investment Group Limited, Hudson Resources Limited and Imperial Corporation Limited.

Chief Financial Officer

Francis Choy
MComm MBA FCPA(HK) CPA

Francis Choy has held a number of senior positions in corporate finan-cial management roles throughout Australia and South East Asia. He has extensive experience in project finance, compliance, acquisition and investment appraisals. He has been involved in project finance, financial management of property development and telecommunication projects in South East Asia. He held senior financial roles for numerous public listed companies both in Hong Kong and Australia.

Consulting Geologist

Andrew White
BSc(Hons) PhD FAIG GAICD

Dr White is a consulting geologist, management consultant and company director. He has over forty five years experience in the mining sector, including roles as exploration manager at Comalco (the bauxite / alumina / aluminium subsidiary of CRA / Rio Tinto) and at Poseidon and was founding director of the W.H. Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre, University of Queensland.

He has extensive experience in exploration, mining, financial evaluation, project development and management, and is author of the text, "Management of Mineral Exploration".

Meridian Corporate Advisory Pty Ltd

Meridian Corporate Advisory (Meridian) has been providing senior advisory services to the resources sector for 10 years. Meridian will assist ABx with strategies in growing value for stakeholders and to deliver on corporate objectives; overall financing plans (and the component elements of those plans across all forms of capital) and; assisting directly with execution and delivery of ABx’s corporate plan.