Directors and Senior Management
From left to right: Gillian Swaby (Company Secretary), Rick Crabb (Chairman), Ian Noble (Non-executive Director), Don Shumka (Non-executive Director) and John Borshoff (Managing Director).
Rick Crabb: B Juris (Hons), LLB, MBA, FAICD
Chairman, Non-Executive Director
Rick Crabb holds degrees of Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Honours), Bachelor of Laws and Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia. He has practiced as a solicitor from 1980 to 2004 specialising in mining, corporate and commercial law. He has advised on all legal aspects including financing, marketing, government agreements and construction contracts for many resource development projects in Australia and Africa. Mr Crabb now focuses on his public company directorships and investments. He has been involved as a director and strategic shareholder in a number of successful public companies. He is presently also a director of Alcaston Mining NL (since 2001), Ashburton Minerals Ltd (since 1999), Otto Energy Ltd (since 2004), Port Bouvard Ltd (since 1996), Royal Resources Limited (since 2004) and Thundelarra Exploration Ltd (since 2003).
Rick Crabb was appointed a director on 8 February 1994 and Chairman on 27 March 2003.
John Borshoff: B.Sc., F.AusIMM, FAICD
Managing Director
John Borshoff is a geologist who has been involved in the Australian and African exploration and mining industry for 34 years. Mr Borshoff worked for International Nickel and Canadian Superior Mining before joining a German mining group, Uranerz from 1976 to 1991. He became Chief Geologist/Exploration Manager during the period 1981-1986 and served as its chief executive from 1987 to mid 1991 when the German parent of Uranerz made the decision to close its Australian operations. The primary focus of the Uranerz Group was the search and development of uranium with the company operating extensively throughout Australia, North America and Africa.
John Borshoff founded Paladin Energy Ltd and was appointed a Director on 24 September 1993. He has extensive knowledge of the uranium industry and experience in company management, strategic planning and administration.
Sean Llewelyn: LLB
Non-Executive Director
Sean Llewelyn, first qualified as a solicitor in Australia and England. His life work however has been in finance and merchant banking having worked for more than 20 years in this capacity in Australia, the UK, the USA and South Africa. His considerable experience has been on derivatives, structured finance and early stage investment relating to the metal markets. He has been involved with uranium for over 10 years and has a comprehensive understanding of the uranium market.
Sean was involved as a key player in the formation of a joint venture company between Anglo Gold and First Rand International to assume marketing responsibility for uranium on behalf of Nuclear Fuels Corporation of South Africa (Nufcor).
Sean Llewelyn was appointed to the Board on 12 April 2005.
Ian Noble: BSc (Metallurgy), F.AusIMM, ARCST
Non-Executive Director
Ian Noble has more than 40 years experience covering the mining, chemical and nuclear industries with a strong emphasis in the mining and mineral processing fields. He is an internationally recognised consultant, specialising in hydrometallurgy and comminution, and has been involved in many of the major mining developments within Australia and overseas. He has held senior management positions with both Wright Engineers Australia Ltd and Fluor Australia and took a lead role in the design of Australia’s two major uranium processing plants.
Ian’s initial involvement with uranium was with Wright Engineers Pty Limited on the Rabbit Lake project in Canada. In Australia, in 1976, he was Lead Engineer on the Ranger Uranium Feasibility Study, followed by a three year involvement in the design construction phase, initially as Process Engineering Manager, and then a period as Project Engineer for the hydrometallurgical plant, and finally a year on site as Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Manager. He was subsequently Lead Process Engineer for the design of Western Mining Corporation’s Olympic Dam Project.
Ian Noble was appointed to the Board on 29 June 2005.
Don Shumka: B.A, MBA
Non-Executive Director
Don Shumka is Vancouver based and is the President and Managing Director of Walden Management Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in natural resources. From 1989 to 2004, he was Managing Director, Investment Banking with CIBC World Markets and Raymond James Ltd. Prior to 1989, Mr. Shumka was Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., one of Canada’s largest forest products companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Harvard University.
He currently sits on the boards of Eldorado Gold Corporation and Northern Peru Copper Corp.
Don Shumka was appointed to Board on 9 July 2007.
Senior Management
Corporate & Finance
Gillian Swaby: B.Bus, FCIS, FAICD
Company Secretary
Ms Swaby has been involved in financial and corporate administration for listed companies, as both Director and Company Secretary covering a broad range of industry sectors, for over 25 years. Ms Swaby has extensive experience in the area of secretarial practice, management accounting and corporate and financial management and sits on a number of advisory committees.
Ms Swaby is past Chair of the Western Australian Council of Chartered Secretaries of Australia, a former Director on their National Board and lecturer for the Securities Institute of Australia. Ms Swaby is the principal of a corporate consulting company and was a member of the Paladin Board for a period of 9 years and is currently a Non-executive Director of Deep Yellow Ltd.
Mark Bolton
Acting Chief Financial Officer
Mark has almost twenty years experience in the resource industry including ten years with Ernst & Young where he was Director of Corporate Finance. Since stepping down from professional practice, Mark has held a number senior executive officer positions including Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Corporate Development with companies listed on the ASX, TSX and AIM with activities in Australia, Southern and Central Africa, Asia and South America and brings a wealth of corporate expertise to Paladin.
Brendan O’Hara: BJuris (Hons), LLB, SF Fin
General Manager - Special Projects and Risk
Brendan O'Hara graduated with Bachelors of Laws and Jurisprudence (with First Class Honours) from the University of Western Australia in 1988, before joining a national Australian law firm, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, securities industry law and corporate regulation. He then spent 13 years with the Australian Stock Exchange in various roles including WA State Executive Director and National Manager, Companies. Brendan O’Hara will assist with the Company’s global expansion strategy.
Engineering & Construction
Simon Solomons
Executive General Manager - Operations Development
Mr Solomons has more than 30 years experience as a mining executive, holds a Master of Science (Mineral Economics) degree from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining Engineering) with first class honours from the University of New South Wales. Mr Solomons has worked for several major mining companies - Gold Fields Limited, North Limited, WMC Limited, Energy Resources of Australia Limited (“ERA”) and Rio Tinto Limited. He was employed by ERA as Manager-Operations, then Resident Manager of its Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory, initially accountable for mining, plant and engineering operations and then overall site activities.
Wyatt Buck
General Manager - Production and Langer Heinrich
Wyatt Buck qualified as a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Saskatchewan in 1981 and was later a senior executive for 15 years with the Cameco Corporation, a Canadian company that leads in uranium production. For the past 2 years Wyatt held the position of General Manager of the McArthur River Mine and the Key Lake Mill. This facility is the highest producing uranium operation in the world. Previous to this, Wyatt acquired extensive operational experience at Cameco’s Key Lake and Rabbit Lake uranium mining operations holding a variety of key positions. These included Mill Manager, Maintenance Superintendent, Purchasing/Transportation Manager and working with the Engineering and Projects sections which also involved participation in the McArthur River and Cigar Lake feasibility studies.
Jim Morgan
Executive General Manager - Projects
Mr Morgan has more than 25 years international experience gained in the project management, mining, engineering and construction fields. He is an internationally recognised consultant, specialising in the design, application and construction of large grinding and milling equipment and their associated drive systems. He has held senior engineering and project management positions for Svedala and Newcrest Australia and was involved in developing a number of the world’s largest milling circuits such as the Cadia and the Olympic dam projects. He has extensive international project management and construction management experience gained in Africa, Asia the Middle East and Australia. Mr Morgan was trained as a professional technology officer with the London metropolitan police force and holds qualifications in electrical engineering.
David Marsh
General Manager - Technical Project Development
David Marsh completed a Bachelor of Science (Engineering) degree at Leeds University in the UK qualifying with Honours as a Processing Engineer in 1980. He has over 25 years international experience in the mining and metallurgical sector covering the full spectrum of project evaluation, development and operations. A large part of his career has been involved in African projects. He has held senior technical and management positions with both GRD Minproc Johannesburg and Fluor South Africa taking leading roles in the design, development and engineering of a large variety of projects located in Africa. During his time with Minproc, he was the Study Manager for the Langer Heinrich Bankable Feasibility Study. His most recent position has been Manager: Metallurgy and Process Development for Barrick Gold Corp.
Geology & Resources
Ed Becker: Dip. Geo. (Cologne), AusIMM
General Manager - Geology and Exploration
Mr Becker is a geologist with 20 years experience in uranium, base and precious metal exploration and development. As Chief Geologist he is responsible for exploration within Australia and overseas encompassing management of all the company’s project activities. Ed Becker has been with the Paladin since its inception. Previously he worked as Senior Geologist with Uranerz, an international German mining house, involved in exploration and project evaluation throughout Australia and participation in that company’s worldwide copper-gold-platinum-uranium research studies, a large part of which now form an integral component of Paladin’s technical database.
David Princep : B.Sc and MAusIMM
Principal Geologist - Resources
David Princep graduated with a degree in Geology from the University of Liverpool in the UK in 1976 and has had extensive experience in the mineral resource industry including analytical laboratory work. Prior to joining Paladin he was employed by Hellman and Schofield, a mineral resource specialist group, as a consulting geologist specialising in resource estimation and assessment, grade control practices and project data management.
Marketing & Sales
Dustin Garrow
General Manager - Marketing
Dustin Garrow, Director-Marketing has more than 25 years experience in the nuclear fuel industry primarily in marketing and sales of natural uranium concentrates (U3O8) and conversion services.
He has held a number of senior management/marketing positions with uranium production companies including Rocky Mountain Energy (natural resource subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation), Everest Minerals, Energy Fuels Nuclear, and World Wide Minerals Ltd., as well as being the Vice-President, Marketing & Sales for ConverDyn, the sole provider of natural uranium conversion services in the United States.
Mr Garrow has provided expert witness testimony before the USITA regarding trade actions as well as Congressional Committees regarding the viability of the U.S. domestic uranium industry.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed coursework for an M.B.A. (management) from San Francisco State University. Mr Garrow served on active duty in the U.S. Navy as Anti-Submarine Warfare/Nuclear Weapons Officer aboard the U.S.S. Shelton (DD-790).
James Eggins
General Manager - Sales and Contract Administration
James Eggins has been involved in marketing and sales administration in the uranium business for 25 years. Mr Eggins began his career with Queensland Mines Limited which operated the Nabarlek uranium project in the Northern Territory. Mr Eggins subsequently worked on the Kintyre Project with CRA Limited before joining WMC Limited in 1989 where he spent fifteen years in various marketing and commercial roles with the Olympic Dam business unit. Mr Eggins is a director of the Uranium Information Centre Limited (now the Australian Uranium Association) and has served on various committees of the World Nuclear Association.
International Affairs
Greg Walker
General Manager - International Affairs
Mr Walker has more than 25 years experience in the mining industry, in corporate relations, sales & marketing and general management roles. He is a former Group General Manager of External Relations for Rio Tinto Limited and Comalco Limited and has served as Chief Executive Officer of mining companies with projects located in Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia and Russia. He has worked as an expatriate mining executive in Africa, India, Canada, Russia and Europe and has extensive experience in managing stakeholder issues for greenfield and brownfield developments.