Steve Abbott,
MBA
General Manager Business Development
Mr Abbott spent the past two years in the position of General Manager at the Pilbara-focused iron ore company Australasian Resources Limited, which he joined following a lengthy and distinguished career at Rio Tinto and Western Mining Corporation.
At Rio Tinto Iron Ore, he held the positions of Manager – Expansion Studies, heading up the Pre-Feasibility studies into a new +100Mtpa iron ore port estimated at over $4 billion, and Manager – Business Improvement. Prior to that, he held the positions of Manager – Strategy and Manager – Processing at Energy Resources of Australia. Before joining Rio Tinto, Mr Abbott held a number of positions at WMC’s world-class Olympic Dam Operation in South Australia between 1992 and 1998.
Mr Abbott holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy from Curtin University, as well as an MBA in Technology Management from La Trobe University.
David Stokes,
B.Bus., LLB, ACIS
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Mr Stokes has over 10 years experience as a corporate/commercial lawyer in the energy and resources sector. Mr Stokes has worked in private practice and in corporate roles having acted for a number of substantial local and international energy and mining companies.
Mr Stokes joined Gindalbie in November 2006 after 3 ½ years at Iluka as Corporate Counsel. During that time Mr Stokes was responsible for establishing, developing and managing Iluka’s Australian legal function and was a member of the senior management team.
At Gindalbie Mr Stokes is now responsible for managing Gindalbie’s legal affairs both within Australia and China, and is also Gindalbie Metals' company secretary.
Michael Weir
Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations Manager
Mr Weir has spent more than 20 years in investor relations, corporate affairs, business journalism and corporate public relations, developing extensive communications experience in the Australian financial markets and resources sector.
Mr Weir is a former multi award-winning business journalist and before joining Gindalbie in 2007 spent more than a decade as a Senior Business Reporter with The West Australian. During that time he was also the presenter of The Mining and Money Show program on the mining radio network RedFM and wrote for several mining industry related publications.In the 1990s he spent three-and-a-half years as a partner in a corporate communications consultancy specialising in financial public relations for ASX-listed companies, particularly in the resources sector.
Mr Weir is a board member of the Australasian Investor Relations Association.
Stephen Murdoch,
BEng.
Chief Executive Officer
Mr Murdoch is a Metallurgical Engineer with over 23 years experience graduating from the University of Queensland in 1988. He has held a range of senior executive positions including Executive Director – Cape Australia Holdings, Chief Operating Officer – Austal Ships, General Manager Manufacturing – Smorgan Steel and General Manager Metallurgical Operations – Mount Isa Mines.
Previous to this he worked as a senior operational executive in the Queensland coal industry with Mount Isa Mines JV, Oaky Creek Coal as Mine Manager Oaky North and Surface Operations Manager.
Paul Sims,
BBus
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Sims is a Certified Practising Accountant with more than 20 years experience in the accounting, finance and commercial areas of the resources industry. Mr Sims commenced his career with Energy Resources of Australia and has also held senior accounting and commercial roles over a fourteen year period at Western Mining Corporation. He was most recently the Chief Financial Officer for Gippsland Limited an Australian resources company establishing a tin / tantalum mine in Egypt. Before that he spent 4 years at Minara Resources as the Commercial Manager and Acting Chief Financial Officer. During this time he was involved in the transformation of the Murrin Murrin laterite nickel operation into a profitable operating mine.