Senior Management
Gavin Thomas,
B Sc (Geology), F AusIMM, CP, Chief Executive Officer, 56 Gavin has had a successful career in developing mining companies from the exploration phase into mid-tier gold and/or copper production entities. He has over 32 years of international experience in exploring for, evaluating, developing, operating and reclaiming mines in North America, South America, Australia, the Southwest Pacific, Asia and Europe. Amongst other things he was credited with the discovery of the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, the largest gold deposit in the world. In particular he has extensive experience in Thailand and South America. Gavin is currently a director of Mercator Minerals Limited.

Stephen Promnitz,
B Sc (Hons), Corporate Development Manager, 42 Stephen Promnitz has extensive experience across the resources sector in acquisitions, investment banking, equity analysis, corporate finance, corporate management, project management, mining and exploration geology. Prior to working for Citigroup and Westpac, he spent over 15 years with WMC Resources, Rio Tinto and Placer Dome, including a global brief as manager-acquisitions for WMC. He spent six years in South America, mainly in Argentina as country manager for WMC and commercial and exploration manager. Prior to South America, he worked in exploration for precious and base metals in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia. He joined Kingsgate in August 2005 to cover business development, investor relations and commercial activities.

Peter Warren,
B Com, CPA, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary, 57 Peter joined Kingsgate in March 2006 as Chief Financial Officer and is a CPA of 30 years standing. Prior to this Peter was company secretary and CFO of Equatorial Mining and the Australian subsidiaries of the Swiss based Alusuisse Group. Peter has had an extensive involvement in the resources industry, having previously held various financial and accounting positions for Peabody Resources and Hamersley Iron.

Phil MacIntyre,
B Sc (Hons), F AusIMM, MCIM, SME, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Akara Mining Limited, 55 Phil has over 30 years of mine operations experience in Canada, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Thailand. He joined Kingsgate as the general manager of Chatree Gold Mine in July 2001. He has a metallurgical background and was the mine general manager at the Kidston Gold Mine in Queensland, Australia prior to joining Kingsgate. Prior to Kidston, Phil was mill superintendent at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea and at the Royal Oak Giant Mine, Westmin Resources Myra Falls Mine and Premier Gold Project and others in Canada.

Ron James,
B Sc (Geology), M AusIMM, M AIG, M SEG, General Manager - Exploration and Resource Development, 49 Ron has 24 years of experience with equal time in exploration and mining at management level. Before joining Kingsgate he was Chief Mine Geologist at the Gold Ridge mine in the Solomon Islands and later Group Exploration Manager for Ross Mining NL. Ron is familiar with the technical and operating requirements for emerging projects in a variety of terrains and environments. He has broad experience setting up gold mines and exploration projects from their earliest stages through to development and sustainability. Ron has a strong focus on maximising returns from ore bodies through optimum waste and ore classification as well as increasing reserves from near mine resource development.

John McDougall,
B E (Mining), CPEng (Mining), F AusIMM, MSMME, Operations Manager-Chatree Gold Mine, 64 John has extensive experience in Mine Engineering, Mine Evaluation and Mining Operational Management in Australia, the Pacific, Canada, United States, Middle East and SE Asia, developed over more than 40 years, before joining Chatree in June 2007.

Recent roles were as Chief Mining Engineer and Project Manager for new open cut and underground mine developments in Saudi Arabia, and as the Director of Project Development and Technical Services in open pit and underground operations management positions in Queensland, West Australia and Papua New Guinea. Prior employment has covered open pit coal mining, uranium operations, copper, molybdenum, gold and nickel projects and phosphate operations, in Australia, Canada, USA, SE Asia and the Pacific. John has a track record of improving operational efficiency and improving profitability, with a strong focus on staff improvement and up-skilling.