Management Profile

  • Chairman

    Michael Delaney Perrott AM
    BCom, FAIM, FAICD
    65 Years
    Mr Perrott has been involved in industries associated with construction, contracting, mining and land development since 1969. He is currently Chairman of VDM Group Limited and is a Director of Schaffer Corporation Limited. He is also a member of the Board of Notre Dame University and SANE Australia. Mr Perrott was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2008 for service to the community through his work in mental illness and suicide prevention organisations and also for his work in the tertiary education sector. 

    Mr Perrott has been Chairman of the Company since 1996.

  • Managing Director

    David John Varcoe
    B. Mining Engineering (Honours) MAusIMM
    50 Years
    Mr Varcoe is a highly qualified mining engineer with over 20 years experience that includes extensive senior managerial and technical positions with Australia and international resource companies. His experience includes positions at Sons of Gwalia, Centaur, WMC, and Goldfields St Ives and for the period prior to joining GME as Principal Consultant Rio Tinto Technical Services based in the United Kingdom and Perth WA.

  • Executive Director

    James Noel Sullivan
    FAICD
    51 Years
    Mr Sullivan has owned and managed a successful business operation based in the Goldfields of Western Australia for the past 25 years. He was instrumental in the formation and management of the Golden Cliffs Prospecting Syndicate, which was acquired by the company in 1995. Mr Sullivan has an intimate knowledge of the Goldfields and has been involved with the company since April 2004 including holding the position as Managing Direction from October 2004 to February 2008. He brings to the board considerable experience and knowledge associated with the supply and logistics of services to the mining/exploration industry, tenement management and issues relating to land access and native title.

  • Director

    Geoffrey Mayfield Motteram
    BMetE(Hons), MAusIMM
    63 Years
    (Metallurgical Engineer)

    Mr Motteram is a metallurgical engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the development of projects in the Australian resources industry.

    He has extensive experience in gold and base metals having been involved with WMC’s Kwinana Nickel Refinery and Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter. He subsequently joined BHP, and later Metals Exploration, where he was involved in the evaluation of gold and base metal projects. Since 1989 he has acted as a Mining Project and Metallurgical Consultant. He was involved in the formation of Minara Resources Limited (formerly Anaconda Nickel Limited) in 1994 and controlled the technical development of the Murrin Murrin Joint Venture until the end of 1997. He is a former director of Minara Resources Limited.

    Mr Motteram has been a director of the Company since 1997.


  • Director

    Peter Ross Sullivan
    BE, MBA
    56 Years
    (Engineer)

    Mr Sullivan is an engineer and has been involved in the development of resource companies and projects for more than 16 years.

    His project engineering experience was followed by four years in corporate finance with an investment bank and two years in a corporate development role with an Australian resource group. Mr Sullivan has considerable experience in the management and strategic development of resource companies. He is currently Managing Director of Resolute Mining Limited.

    Mr Peter Sullivan retired as Managing Director of the Company in October 2004.


  • Company Secretary

    Mark Pitts
    B.Bus, CA
    Mr Pitts is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty five years experience in statutory reporting and business administration in Australia. He has been directly involved with, and consulted to a number of public companies holding senior financial management positions.

    Mr Pitts is a Partner in the advisory firm Endeavour Corporate (Endeavour). Endeavour offers professional services focused on Company Secretarial support; corporate advice; supervision of ASIC and ASX reporting and compliance requirements; and commercial and financial support. Endeavour acts for a number of ASX listed and unlisted Public Companies.

  • NiWest Project Manager

    Michael Ryan
    Dip. Met., MAusIMM

    Mr Ryan has over 30 years experience in the metallurgical field as a practitioner, consultant and project manager.

    His experience includes Port Kembla Steelworks, Telfer, Red Dome, Mt Morgans, Yakabindie Nickel and Anaconda Nickel. He has developed, operated and consulted widely including projects involving heap leach, CIP, flotation and hydrometallurgy. Most recently, since 1995, has been involved with Nickel Laterite development in Australia with feasibility studies for the Murrin Murrin and Syerston Projects and Murrin Murrin detailed design.