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Mr Antonio Vitor Junior
Managing Director
Antonio is a Brazilian mining executive with extensive experience in rare earth discovery and in-country project leadership. He has been directly involved in the discovery and advancement of ionic adsorption clay (IAC) style rare earth mineralisation in Goiás State, Brazil, and brings hands-on operational capability across exploration execution, stakeholder engagement and project development. Antonio was instrumental to the discovery and advancement of the PCH Project, located within the Azimuth 125o lineament. He has previously served as Country Manager of Appia Rare Earths and Uranium Corp (CNSX:API) and as Managing Director of Ultra Rare Earth Inc, with experience spanning grassroots REE exploration through to development planning. In addition to his REE experience, Antonio is Chief Executive Officer of Bahia Graphite Corp, which has executed a Letter of Intent with Marubeni Corporation, Director Manager of AMA Gold in Goiás State, Country Manager of Homerun Resources Inc, and Country Manager of Brasnova Inc, which holds copper, manganese, phosphate and titanium projects. Antonio holds a degree in Business Administration, an MBA and is a Member of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance.
Mr Michael Davy
Non Executive Chairman
Michael is an Australian executive and Accountant with 20 years’ experience across a range of industries.Michael previously held a senior management role in Australia for Songa Offshore (listed Norwegian Oil and Gas drilling company), where he assisted with the start-up of the Australian operations and managed the finance team for a two rig operation with multi-hundred million dollar revenues. Prior to that he worked in Australia and London for other large organisations overseeing various finance functions and has been closely involved in a number of private businesses, consistently recognising opportunity early and helping shape it into commercial success.During the past five years Michael has held directorships in several ASX listed companies and is currently a Non-Executive Chairman of Raiden Resources Limited (ASX: RDN), Chairman of Haranga Resources Ltd (ASX:HAR), a non-executive director of Vanadium Resources Ltd (ASX:VR8), and a non-executive director of Arcadia Minerals Ltd (ASX:AM7).
Athan Lekkas
Non-Executive Director
Athan has many years of investment banking experience and has advised on numerous cross border transactions including capital raisings, funding and structuring of acquisitions, joint ventures overseas and participated in a broad range of business and corporate advisory transactions. More recently Athan has focused on the restructure and recapitalisation of a wide range of ASX Listed companies. He was former Chairman of Panax Geothermal Limited (ASX:PAX) a Geothermal company that was successfully transformed into an Internet of Things (IoT) technology company where he was responsible for raising $25M. Athan was also previously a Director of Brainy Toys Limited which was transformed from a technology company into a mining company which is now listed as a Kogi Iron (ASX: KFE), where he was instrumental and successful with identifying and funding the acquisition of a major West African Iron Ore project.
Leslie Pereira
Non-Executive Director
Les is the current Chairman of Estrella Resources which is currently exploring for Manganese and Limestone in Timor Leste. Prior to this Les was the Chairman of Vonex Pty Ltd whilst it was a private company helping it transition into a Public Listed Company on the ASX when he retired to focus on mining projects in Indonesia. He was the Business Development Manager for Kangaroo Resources and helped build that company from a shell into a company that was bought out by Bayan Resources a leading Coal producer in Indonesia. Les brings to the company a hands-on approach to help build shareholder value. He was instrumental in the latest capital raise and has introduced to the company a new group of shareholders that hope to see Magnum develop its current projects as well as reviewing other projects which may add value to the company moving forward.
Mr Mark Pryn
Company Secretary
Mark is an experienced finance and governance executive, company secretary and chartered accountant, with over 25 years’ experience within public company and professional environments. Mark has Company Secretary and CFO experience with several listed entities.