Directors & Senior Management

Brief biographies for the Directors are given below.

Chairman

Linda Sanders (Dip Journalism)

Linda provides investor and stakeholder relations, marketing and communications expertise to the Company. Linda has more than 36 years of experience as a communications executive and journalist and has significant board experience with New Zealand listed companies and community organisations. She has been a director of the Aorere business since 1989 and retired as its chairman in 2012 and has been a director of the Company since 2008 and is also a trustee of Golden Bay community organisations.

Linda has worked as a communications manager for Telecom New Zealand, the New Zealand government’s Department of Building and Housing and has held a range of consultancy positions in the private and public sectors. She was also a financial columnist for national current affairs magazine The Listener.


Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Chris Castle (BCA, ACA, CMInstD, CFIP)

Chris is a chartered accountant with more than 37 years’ experience in investment and corporate finance. Chris was a founding director of Spectrum Resources and Premier Mining Securities and has held directorships in ten NZX listed companies. His mining and mineral exploration background includes projects with Amoil NZ, Kanieri Gold Dredging and Australian Anglo-American. Chris’ investment sector experience includes Brierley Investments and the Regina Confections/Charter Corporation group. He established the Aorere business in 1989 as a mining and mineral sector focused investor and share trader. He is also a non-executive director of TSX-V listed Asian Mineral Resources and until recently chairman of ASX listed King Solomon Mines.


Directors

Robert Goodden (ACSM 1st Class Mining Engineering & Geology)

Robert is a member of the Company’s technical advisory team. Robert chairs Subsea Minerals Ltd developing business opportunities in marine mining and before that, as Chief Executive on a surf zone marine mining project off the coast of Namibia. He was previously on the advisory board for Nautilus Minerals advising on core drilling and sample recovery.

Robert founded Seacore Limited an offshore drilling and construction contractor in 1976 and ran the company for 30 years until it was sold to the Fugro Group in 2006. He has also served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers.

 

Jill Hatchwell (BCA, ACA, CMInstD)

Jill was appointed to the Board in 2008. Jill has an extensive background in financial and corporate management, and currently serves on the boards and audit and risk subcommittees of Aorere Resources Ltd, the NZ Civil Aviation Authority, Ringa Hora Services Workforce Development Council, WellingtonNZ and Promisia Healthcare Ltd.

 

Ryan Wong

Ryan, who holds a Master’s degree in civil and structural engineering, holds a board and senior executive management role with the Caldecott Group of companies based in Malaysia.  Caldecott is primarily involved in property development and construction but has diverse investments in hospitality, recreation and mining. He has been with the Caldecott Group for more than 15 years. Mr Wong is a member of the Institute of Directors NZ, the Association of Petroleum and Explosives Administration UK and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.

 

Colin Randall

Colin is a director and major shareholder of Avenir and since 2016 the full time Executive Chairman, was appointed to CRP’s Board of Directors on 30 June, 2021 

Mr. Randall is a mining engineer with over 50 years-experience and has for 30 years provided independent consultant services in the fields of mining, marketing, management and development to a wide range of clients including mining companies, potential investors, banks, insurance companies and trading houses.

He is a graduate from the University of New South Wales in Mining Engineering, a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a Past Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He is a past Director of a number of mining, energy and exploration companies.

Senior Management

Ray Wood, Chief Operating Officer:

Ray is a geophysicist with more than 30 years’ experience interpreting data from the New Zealand region. Ray has published numerous articles on the geology, tectonics and resources of New Zealand’s marine territory. Ray has had extensive experience using geographic information systems to interpret and model geological and other data, including analysis of the impact of trawling on the sea floor.

 

Robyn Hamilton, Chief Financial Officer

Robyn has been the Chief Financial Officer of CRP since its formation in 2004. Robyn is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of commercial experience. She has worked as a Chartered Accountant in New Zealand and Australia and brings a range of expertise in the areas of due diligence, internal control, corporate governance, international financial reporting and statutory compliance. She is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and Governance Institute of Australia.

Robyn has an extensive background in oil and gas and mining listed companies working for listed companies Bass Strait Oil Company Ltd, Aorere Resources Ltd and previously Asian Mineral Resources Ltd.

 

Campbell McKenzie - Vice President Technical Services

Campbell is an exploration geologist who has worked in the minerals industry for twenty years. He has held upper management roles with mineral sector consultancies, government and industry. He is currently the CEO of business development consultancy Kenex Ltd, and provides support across CRP’s  business including exploration planning, stakeholder and environmental management, and corporate affairs.