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Geordie Mark
Managing Director & CEO
Dr Geordie Mark has more than 25 years of diversified global experience across the resources sector, including 15+ years as an industry-leading resources analyst based in Canada, with experience across commodities and at asset scale.
Dr Mark has Canadian exploration and management experience as Vice President Exploration in an earlier role in his career and was previously a lecturer in economic Geology at Monash University, Melbourne.
He completed a PhD at the National Key Centre in Economic Geology at James Cook University.
Steven Woolfenden
Vice President - Sustainability
Mr Woolfenden has more than 25 years of mining industry experience and a history of leading environmental, community, governance and regulatory processes.
Previously, he held positions as Vice President of Environment and Community Affairs for McEwen Mining and IAMGOLD’s corporate Environment Director where he was responsible for environmental, regulatory and community engagement teams to develop major resource projects and large-scale
infrastructure works. He also has more than 10 years of experience in the public sector, with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA).
Lara Iacusso
Chief Financial Officer
Ms Iacusso has more than 30 years’ experience in financial advisory services in Australia and overseas across a wide range of industries, including mining and exploration.
She was previously a partner of Deloitte Corporate Finance and is the former CFO of ASX-listed Oklo Resources, which merged with B2Gold in September 2022, and TSXV-listed Compass Gold Corp. She is currently CFO for a West African lime company and several private companies.
Ms Iacusso specialises in providing financial advisory services to emerging companies and has experience working with companies with operations in multiple jurisdictions including optimising cashflow, taxation and other cross-border matters.
Louisa Martino
Company Secretary
Ms Martino has provided company secretarial and accounting services for eight years to a number of listed entities. Previously she worked for a corporate finance company, assisting with company compliance (ASIC and ASX) and capital raising.
She also has experience working for a government organisation in its Business Development division where she performed reviews of business opportunities and prepared business case analysis for those seeking Government funding.
Prior to that, Ms Martino worked for a major accounting firm in Perth, London and Sydney where she provided corporate advisory services and performed due diligence reviews.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).
