Mr Jones has more than 35 years’ experience in the mining, banking and finance industries and has been a Director of a number of private and publicly-listed companies, including as the Chairman of Sundance Resources until August 2009, and Gindalbie Metals Ltd, where he is currently Chairman. 

He was instrumental in overseeing the growth of Portman Mining Limited over the course of a decade, taking it from a start-up iron ore producer in the early 1990’s to a 6 million tonnes per annum producer of direct shipping hematite ore with a market capitalisation of over $600 million in 2005. 

Mr Jones has a Bachelor of Business degree from Curtin University of Western Australia.

Mr Blakiston is a solicitor with substantial legal experience in the resources sector. He is a partner of the corporate and resource law firm, Blakiston & Crabb and has over 29 years legal and industry experience.  

Mr Blakiston has extensive commercial experience both in advisory and directorial capacities having been involved in project assessment, structuring and financing, joint ventures and strategic alliances in the resource industry. 

In his capacity as a partner in Blakiston & Crab, the Company currently engaged by Sundance Resources to provide ongoing legal advice, Mr Blakiston has been playing a leading role in the negotiation and formulation of a number of key agreements relating to the Company's Mbalam iron project.

Mr Blakiston is also a director of Aurora Oil & Gas Limited, Platinum Australia Limited and Axiom Properties Limited. 

Mr Blakiston holds Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Western Australia.

Mr Rankine-Wilson has substantial experience in the mining and investment industries.    

He is currently a Director of Corporate Advisory firm, Azure Capital and was previously a founding Director and the Executive Chairman of CapitalInvestment Partners.

Mr Rankine-Wilson was central to the original agreement that saw Sundance Resources acquire the Mbalam Iron Ore Project and retains extensive in-country government and key stakeholder relationships. 

Previously, Mr Rankine-Wilson worked as Managing Director for Grange Resources Limited.   His extensive experience in the mining and investment industries has included participating in the negotiation and consummation of numerous significant business acquisitions, as well as being responsible for the associated finance raising and due diligence enquiries and processes.

Ms Harris has had extensive experience as a Non-executive Director over the past 15 years, including with ASX listed iron ore companies, Portman Mining Limited and Territory Resources Limited (current), as well as Alinta Limited, Burswood Limited, and Evans & Tate Limited, and a variety of other organisations.

Ms Harris is currently a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) National Board (and a former Western Australian State President of AICD), a Non-executive Director of listed mining company Universal Resources Ltd and several private companies.

Ms Harris also spent 14 years with chartered accountants KPMG and was a partner in their Sydney Office, having also worked in the Perth and San Francisco offices, where she specialised in financial services and superannuation, and was involved in capital raisings, due diligence, IPOs, capital structuring of transactions and litigation support.

Mr Eldridge has over 40 years experience as a geologist and mining engineer in the resource industry both in Australia and overseas.

Following a 20 year career in the coal industry in Queensland and New South Wales, Mr Eldridge moved to Western Australia in 1988 where he has been involved in a number of management roles in the mining industry. Most notable of these have been Project Manager for the Super Pit in Kalgoorlie, Project Manager for the development of Kanowna Belle gold mine, Managing Director of Forrestania Gold NL, Project Director for the West Angelas iron ore development, Director – Major Projects for North Ltd, Managing Director of Griffin Coal Pty Ltd, Managing Director, CEO of Portman Ltd and Chairman of SNC-Lavalin Australia Pty Ltd.  He is currently a director of the largest iron ore company in North America, Cliffs Natural Resources Inc and is Chairman of Perth based gold producer Mundo Minerals Ltd.