Senior Management

Mark Ashley - CEO and Managing Director

FCMA

Mark Ashley is the Managing Director  and CEO of Apex Minerals NL. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has over 20 years experience in the resources industry.

In 1992, Mark joined Forrestania Gold – which was subsequently acquired by LionOre in 1994 and was with the company through its emergence as a growing international nickel producer up until 31st March, 2006. Mark who was a main board Director and CEO of its Australian operations, left LionOre at that time to run Apex Minerals.

Mark was the founding CEO of Kagara Limited (as a public listed company) and is currently one of its Non-Executive Directors. Mark is also a Non-Executive Director of Metallica Minerals Limited, an ASX listed company.  He is a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Flying Doctor (WA) and had previously served as its Chairman of the Major Gifts Committee.

Mark has international resource experience having worked in South America, Africa, the United Kingdom, Turkey, China and now Australia.

Adrian Di Carlo - Company Secretary

BBus(Acc) MBA GradDipACG CPA

Adrian has acted as the company secretary for ASX listed entities with a professional company secretary services firm. Previously, Adrian worked for the Barrick Gold Corporation/Antofagasta Minerals joint venture and prior to that, Adrian worked within the Wesfarmers Group for several years in various accounting, systems and project and commercial management positions. Adrian has completed a Bachelor of Business degree (accounting) and a Master of Business Administration degree at Curtin University of Technology.  Adrian has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance and is a Certified Practising Accountant.

Will Dix - Exploration Manager

BSc MSc MAusIMM

Mr Will Dix is a geologist with 12 years experience in gold, nickel and base metal exploration and mining. He was formerly Northeastern Goldfields Supervising Geologist for LionOre Australia and was a member of the team responsible for the discovery of the Waterloo and Amorac nickel sulphide deposits and the Thunderbox two million ounce gold deposit.

Andy Thompson - Geology Manager

BSc (Hons)

Mr Andy Thompson is a geologist with over 15 years experience in gold, nickel and base metal exploration and mining. Most recently he was the Geology Superintendent at the Silver Swan Nickel Mine. Andy was also a member of the team responsible for the discovery of both the Thunderbox Gold Mine, where he was Geology Manager, and the Waterloo and Amorac nickel sulphide deposits. Prior to this he was also employed at the Nimary and Yilgarn Star Mines.

Jeremy Robinson - Business Analyst

BCom

Mr Jeremy Robinson is a business analyst who has previously worked as resource analyst at a leading Sydney stockbroking firm for a number of years where he was involved in the evaluation and financing of resource projects.