Michael Arnett
Independent Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Arnett is a former consultant to, partner of and member of the Board of Directors and national head of the Natural Resources Business Unit of the law firm Norton Rose (formally Deacons). He has been involved in significant corporate and commercial legal work for the resource industry for over 20 years. He has a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce, both from the University of New South Wales.
Mr Arnett is currently Chairman and Non-Executive Director of NRW Holdings Limited (ASX: NRW), a group of companies providing diversified services to the resources, civil infrastructure and urban development sectors.
Giuseppe (Joe) Ariti
Non-executive Director
Mr Ariti is the founder of Genmin, and an experienced company director and mining executive with over 30 years’ experience in technical, management and executive roles including developing, managing and financing mining projects in Australia, Indonesia, PNG and the West Africa region.
Prior to founding Genmin in 2012, Mr Ariti was a director of Australian iron ore producer Territory Resources Limited when it was taken over by Hong Kong based commodities trading company Noble Group. He was also a founding director of African Iron Limited, an entity developing iron ore assets in the Republic of Congo until March 2012 at which time it was taken over by Exxaro Resources Limited (Exxaro).
Mr Ariti has held the position of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Genmin for the past 12 years. On 11 July 2024, the Company announced a planned board and management skills reset to prepare for the transition to operations. As part of this process, Mr Ariti retains a seat on the board as a non-executive director and Chair Designate. Mr Ariti is expected to take over as Genmin's Board Chair at the end of 2024.
Greg Lilleyman
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Lilleyman is a well credentialed mining executive with over 30 years of extensive international experience in large scale project development and construction, operational and business leadership, joint venture management, sales/marketing and technology deployment. He was formerly Chief Operating Officer at FMG, a 200 million tonne per annum (Mtpa) iron ore producer, between 2017 and 2021.
From 1990 to 2016, Mr Lilleyman worked for Rio Tinto including as a member of Rio Tinto’s Executive Committee and as President of the Pilbara Operations, a 330Mtpa operation with a workforce of over 12,000. Mr Lilleyman holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Construction) from Curtin University, is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow in Ethical Leadership and has completed the prestigious Wharton Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
Salvatore (Pietro) Amico
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Amico is a Belgium national currently residing in France. He has a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Université de Mons, located in Belgium, and in 2003 completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France.
Between 2013 and October 2018 he was the General Representative of Eramet (a global, diversified French mining and metallurgical group with its principal listing on the Paris stock exchange (ERA.PA)) in Gabon, resident in Libreville. Eramet (through its majority holding in COMILOG) owns the Moanda Deposits. Eramet is also the majority owner of SETRAG, the entity operating the Trans-Gabon Railway.
Amongst other responsibilities, whilst Mr Amico was the General Representative of Eramet in Gabon, he oversaw the final permitting and government negotiations, construction and commissioning of the EUR228 million COMILOG metallurgical plant, which value adds manganese ore to manganese metal and silica manganese.
Prior to 2013, Mr Amico held various roles at Eramet including Head of the Chemicals Business Unit based in Paris, CEO of the manganese salts and oxides business with production sites in the USA, China, Europe and Mexico, and two years as head of Guangxi Eramet Comilog Chemicals Ltd based in Shanghai, China.
John Hodder
Non-Executive Director
Mr Hodder is a founding principal of Tembo Capital, a mining private equity fund, which specialises in African and emerging markets. He has over 30 years’ experience in the resources industry. He initially worked as a geologist and then in project evaluation for both mineral and oil and gas companies. In 1995, Mr Hodder worked for an international finance corporation financing resources projects within emerging markets, where he gained skills in both project finance and private equity. After that he worked in the funds management industry within Australia where he was directly involved in investing in resources companies listed on the ASX.
Mr Hodder was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Company on 22 May 2014, Non-Executive Chairman on 20 December 2018 and reverted to a Non-Executive Director on 10 March 2021.
Andrew Haslam
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Mr Haslam is a mining professional with significant iron ore operations experience including as a former non-executive director of BC Iron Limited, managing director and CEO of Territory Resources Ltd, and former executive general manager iron ore at Mineral Resources Limited.
In addition, he has held several general manager roles with civil and mining contractors including Thiess and Downer, where he had oversight of contracts with iron ore companies.
Ben Bussell
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Bussell is a Senior Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in public accounting, corporate accounting and taxation. He acts as CFO of several ASX-listed and private entities, primarily focused on the preparation of general and special purpose financial reports and managing all aspects of their independent audit and reporting to stakeholders. Mr Bussell is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia.