Mr Neale is the past  Non-executive Chairman of industrial minerals and energy company, Mayur Resources Limited and past Managing Director of New Hope Corporation Limited (NHC).  He joined NHC in 1996 as General Manager and appointed as executive officer in 2005 and to the Board of Directors in 2008 until his retirement from the Board in 2014.  Mr Neale has more than 45 years’ experience in the mining, oil & gas and exploration industries covering base metals, gold, coal, synthetic fuels and conventional oil and gas, bulk materials shipping, and power generation.  Prior to NHC Mr Neale spent 23 years’ with Esso Australia and EXXON Coal and Minerals Company.

Norman Seckold graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney in 1970. He has spent more than 30 years in the full time management of natural resource companies, both in Australia and overseas.

Mr Seckold has been the Chairman of a number of publicly listed companies including Moruya Gold Mines (1983) N.L., which acquired the Golden Reward heap leach gold deposit in South Dakota, USA, Pangea Resources Limited, which acquired and developed the Pauper’s Dream gold mine in Montana, USA, Timberline Minerals, Inc. which acquired and completed a feasibility study for the development of the MacArthur copper deposit in Nevada, USA, Perseverance Corporation Limited, which discovered and developed the Nagambie gold mine in Victoria, Valdora Minerals N.L., which developed the Rustler’s Roost gold mine in the Northern Territory and the Ballarat East Gold Mine in Victoria, Viking Gold Corporation, which discovered a high grade gold deposit in northern Sweden, Mogul Mining N.L., which drilled out the Magistral and Ocampo gold deposits in Mexico and Bolnisi Gold N.L, which discovered and developed the Palmarejo and Guadalupe gold and silver mines in Mexico.

Mr Seckold is currently Chairman of Alpha HPA Limited, a company planning to produce high purity alumina and operating in Australia and Indonesia, Santana Minerals Ltd,  a precious metals exploration company and Sky Metals Limited, exploring for mineral resources in NSW, Australia. He is also a director of the unlisted public company Mekong Minerals Ltd.

Jim Crombie graduated from the Royal School of Mines, London, in 1980 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mining Engineering, having been awarded an Anglo American Scholarship. Mr. Crombie held various positions with DeBeers Consolidated Mines and the Anglo American Corporation in South Africa and Angola between 1980 and 1986. He spent the next thirteen years as a Mining Analyst and Investment Banker with Shepards, Merrill Lynch, James Capel & Co. and finally with Yorkton Securities. Mr. Crombie was the Vice President, Corporate Development of Hope Bay Mining Corporation Inc. from February 1999 through May 2002 and President and CEO of Ariane Gold Corp. from August 2002 to November 2003. Mr. Crombie was President, CEO and a director of Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation until the merger with Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, one of the world’s leading silver companies, in December 2007. He was a director of Sherwood Copper Corporation until its business combination with Capstone Mining Corp. in November 2008. Currently, Mr. Crombie is President and CEO of Odyssey Resources Corp.

Mr. Huang graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Zhejiang University in 1982 and obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from Zhejiang University in 1998.

Mr. Huang started his career in several industrial enterprises and had broad management experiences from serving as the Plant Manager of Wenzhou Tractor Plant to the General Manager of Wenzhou Machinery Industrial Corporation, and as the Vice Mayor of Wenzhou and Executive Chairman of China Perfect Machinery Industry Corp., Ltd. While he was serving as the Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone, he was appointed as a Director of Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone Development Co., Ltd, a publicly-listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE code 600639) and concurrently the Deputy CEO of Shanghai Jinqiao Group. Mr. Huang was also a former Chairman of the board of Harbin High Tech (Group) Co., Ltd, another publicly-listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE code 600095).

Mr. Huang is currently the Chairman of Shanghai Decent Investment (Group) Co., Ltd, (‘Shanghai Decent’) a flagship company within the Tsingshan Iron and Steel group of companies, and the President Director of PT. Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park. Under his leadership, Shanghai Decent has led in the investments of over US$5 billion in the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (‘IMIP’), an industrial park covering 2,000 hectares, and making IMIP the most integrated ferronickel and stainless steel complex in the world.

Former co-head of Glencore International AG’s worldwide coal division, where he spent 13 years overseeing a range of trading activities including the identification , due diligence, negotiation, acquisition and aggregation of the coal project portfolio that would become Xstrata coal. He is the former Executive Chairman and founding Managing Director of Cockatoo Coal Limited. Currently he is the Non-Executive Chairman of Equus Mining Limited, a director of Terracom Limited and a director of non-listed companies Australian Transport Energy Corridor Pty Ltd and Montem Resources Limited.

Ms. Xu graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Business & Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni.

Since graduation, Ms. Xu has honed her business acumen, participating in the Shanghai Fashion Week with a focus on marketing, public relations and procurement activities.

She is currently an Executive Director of Shanghai Wanlu Investment Co., Ltd.

Ms. Xu has not sat on the board of any publicly listed companies.

Mr Sutantio graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Australian National University in 1987 and has been involved in the Asian financial sector for more than 20 years, holding various senior positions at Citibank N.A., Bank Tiara Asia Tbk., the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and PT Bank Mandiri Tbk. He joined the Indonesian Tanito Group in 2010 and is currently a Director and CFO responsible for overseeing the Tanito Group’s investments in the financial, mining support, marine logistics/shipping, property and hospitality sectors.

Mr Edwards graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, is a member of CPA Australia and holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA.  Mr Edwards has worked for over fifteen years providing financial reporting and company secretarial services to a range of publicly listed companies in Australia with a focus on the mining sector.  He is currently Company Secretary of ASX listed Alpha HPA Limited and Prospech Limited.

Ms Zhao graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a Master of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Thermal Engineering and Computer Science and Application. She has over 15 years of investment experience in China and overseas, including the establishment of the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Indonesia. Since June 2008 she has been General Manager of the Assets and Legal Department and then Assistant President of Shanghai Decent Investment (Group) Co., Ltd, a Tsingshan Group company. Ms Zhao has been a key contributor to the establishment and growth of the collaboration between Nickel Industries and Tsingshan.

Mr Werner, holds a bachelor of management from the University of Sydney and has been involved in the mining industry for more than 20 years. He was a founding partner of PT Gemala Borneo Utama, a private Indonesian exploration and mining company, which developed a heap leach gold mine in West Kalimantan and also discovered the highly prospective Romang Island with ASX listed Robust Resources Limited which was acquired in 2012 by Indonesian business tycoon Anthony Salim.

Prior to developing projects in Indonesia, Justin worked as a consultant, leading many successful turnaround projects for blue chip mining companies around the world including Freeport McMoran (Grasberg deposit, Indonesia where he spent 2 years), Lihir Gold (Lihir mine, Papua New Guinea), Placer Dome (Nevada, USA), BHP Billiton (Ingwe Coal, South Africa), Rio Tinto (West Angeles Iron Ore, Australia), Nickel West (Western Australia) and QNI Yabulu refinery (Queensland, Australia).

Mr Werner is currently a non-executive director of ASX Listed Alpha HPA Limited and Far East Gold Limited.

Mr Chris Shepherd, a Chartered Accountant who holds Bachelor degrees in Applied Finance and Commerce.  Most recently Chris acted as a Partner and Managing Director of The Pallinghurst Group in London and has over 20 years’ experience in private equity, investment banking and corporate finance, advising on more than US$30 billion in transactions across Australasia, North America, Europe and Africa.

Prior to The Pallinghurst Group where he was responsible for establishing and executing Pallinghurst’s battery materials investment strategy, Chris was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank gaining extensive experience in transaction origination, structuring and execution across the mining, industrial and consumer sectors.

Mr Xiang has been a key member of the rapid development of Tsingshan since 2000. His previous experience spans many senior roles and operations including head of AOD Department of Zhejiang Tsingshan Special Steel Company Limited, the General Manager of Zhejiang Tsingshan Steel Company Limited, the Chairman of Zhejiang Ruipu Machinery Company Limited, the Vice President of Ruipu Technology Group Company Limited, the Chairman of Fujian Dingxin Nickel Company Limited and the Vice Chairman of Tsingtuo Group Company Limited.

Mr Xiang has already played a key role in the development of the Company’s RKEF operations, as a Shanghai Decent nominee to the Board of the Company’s Indonesian RKEF entities, as well as director of the Company’s Singaporean subsidiary holding companies.

In his current role as Chairman of Eternal Tsingshan he has successfully led the management, development and operations of the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (‘IMIP’) and the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (‘IWIP’), which are the world’s largest integrated nickel processing industrial parks with nearly 100,000 employees.