39 Senior Management
Senior Management
Senior Management Kingsgate’s executives have a comprehensive range of skills and experience including mine development and operations, exploration, finance and administration. They are supported by highly qualified specialists, whose backgrounds cover the full scope of mining resources activities. Senior members of Kingsgate’s management team are:
Tim Benfield
Ross Coyle
Ronald James
Chief Operating Officer
General Manager Finance and Administration Company Secretary
General Manager Exploration and Resource Development
Ross Coyle joined Kingsgate in March 2011 following the Company’s acquisition of Dominion Mining Limited and was with the Dominion group for over 25 years. He is a qualified accountant and has over 31 years’ experience in finance and accounting within the resource industry. He was Finance Director of Dominion from 1996. Ross was appointed Kingsgate’s Company Secretary in September 2011.
Ron James has 31 years of experience in exploration and mining at management level inclusive of setting up gold mines and exploration projects from their earliest stages through to development and sustainability. 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 and 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.
Dip CSM (mining), MBA, MAusIMM
Tim Benfield joined Kingsgate in February 2012 as Chief Operating Officer. Tim is a mining engineer with over 22 years’ underground and open pit experience in the mining industry in both operational and corporate roles. He has operational and project development experience in Australia, Africa and Saudi Arabia. This includes 10 years with Barrick Gold of Australia where he provided support to four operating mines and two development projects. Tim was most recently General Manager of the Pajingo Gold mine in Queensland for Evolution Mining Limited.
BA, FCPA, FGIA
Joel Forwood Bsc (Hons) FFin
General Manager Corporate and Markets Joel Forwood joined Kingsgate in November 2010 and has over 28 years’ experience in the resource and investment industries covering investor relations, funds management and exploration. For over 13 years, he has been leading investor relations at a number of listed companies, most recently for Lihir Gold Limited. Prior to this he was a fund manager with Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) following his early career in mineral exploration with BHP and corporate development with RGC.
BSc (Geology), MAusIMM, MAIG
Brett Dunstone
Dip. (Hospitality)- William Angliss College B.Bus. Victoria University (part complete)
General Manager – Human Resources Brett Dunstone joined Kingsgate in December 2012 and has over 26 years’ experience in senior human resource management roles across a diverse industry portfolio. Brett was formerly head of Human Resources for Crown Casino, Melbourne, the Myer group, key Village Roadshow entities and head of Employee Relations for the Coles Myer group. Brett has experience in supporting both large and emerging resource company development projects locally and overseas (BHP Billiton, Woodside, Equinox Minerals and Chalice Gold).
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