Management & Board

SIMON COYLE

President, CEO and Director

DAVID BHUMGARA

CFO

David Bhumgara is a senior finance executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience and proven expertise in finance, financial reporting, accounting, corporate finance, budgeting, financial modelling, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as hands-on experience with IT and HR responsibilities. He possesses strong technical skills and throughout his career has led numerous ERP and financial reporting controls implementations. David’s focus lies on small-to-medium sized publicly and privately held organizations.

Michael Griffiths

VP Exploration, Director

Michael is a qualified geologist, a Fellow of AusIMM, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors with more than 35 years of experience covering all facets of the minerals and energy sector, including over 20 years’ experience in Africa with roles ranging from Geologist to Managing Director of a producing copper company.

Teams under Mike’s guidance have brought 3 gold projects totalling over 6 Moz to the feasibility stage.

NICOLE MORCOMBE

Director

Nicole is a finance professional with a background in economics, finance and accounting. She has spent almost 20 years in the financial markets and has extensive advisory and capital markets experience specializing in the Global Materials and Energy sectors. She spent the bulk of her career identifying, advising and financing early-stage and pre-development companies.  Nicole is a co-founder of Kotai Energy.

Caroline Keats 

Director

Caroline Keats brings over 20 years of corporate and commercial experience, which includes working with assets in foreign jurisdictions. For most of her career, she has worked in the mining industry in Australia and Africa. Prior to working on the corporate side, she was a lawyer with a tier-one law firm Blake Dawson Waldron, as well as a boutique mining law firm. She has held senior management/executive roles at Paladin Energy, Mawson West, MRX Technologies (a Siemens business), and the Managing Director role at ASX-listed Tiger Resources. Ms. Keats holds a Bachelor of Business and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons).

Ms. Keats is currently the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ENRG Elements Ltd, an ASX-listed exploration company with uranium and copper assets in Africa. 

Namrata Malhotra

Corporate Secretary

Namrata has an extensive background in corporate governance management and regulatory compliance. Namrata most recently held the position of Assistant Vice-President, Corporate Secretarial and Compliance at a fintech start-up in India and is now Corporate Secretary of several public companies.