Directors and Management

Inés Scotland
Chair

Ms Scotland has worked in the mining industry for over 20 years for large scale gold and copper companies in Australia, Papua New Guinea, USA and the Middle East. This has included working for Rio Tinto companies, Comalco, Lihir and Kennecott Utah Copper. Ms Scotland was most recently the Managing Director and CEO of Ivanhoe Australia, an ASX listed entity with a market capitalisation of $500m. Prior to this Ms Scotland was the Managing Director and CEO of Citadel Resource Group Limited. Ms Scotland was a founding shareholder of Citadel and was its managing director through its growth, until its acquisition by Equinox Minerals in January 2011. At the time of acquisition by Equinox, Citadel was developing the Jabal Sayid Copper Project  in Saudi Arabia, had a market capitalisation of $1.3B and had raised more than $380m on the equity markets. Ms Scotland was appointed as Chair on 13 August 2013.

Charles Lew
Non-Executive Director

Mr. Lew is an entrepreneur with a strong background in investment banking and mining, having been engaged in various ventures across the mining, food and beverage, property development, and futures hedge fund sectors. In 2014, he discovered a high-grade rare earth ore body at Yangibana in Western Australia. Since the discovery, he has successfully managed the project’s progression from discovery all the way to permitting and securing product offtake contracts and completing the mine site infrastructure. During this period, he raised A$450 million for the project and recently formed a joint venture with Wyloo.

Mr. Lew previously served as an Independent Non-Executive Director at RHB Bank, one of Malaysia’s major banking groups, from March 2004 until his retirement in May 2016. He also held the position of Independent Director on the board of Singapore Medical Group from 2007 to 2013. He is the Founder and Chairman of Muddy Murphy Holdings, a company that operates traditional and concept pubs, which was established in 1996.

Currently, Mr. Lew serves as the Executive Chair of Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) and was appointed as a non-executive director of MBK on December 5, 2025. He holds a BA (Hons) in Finance and Accounting from the University of East London and a MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, University of London.

Guy Robertson
Executive Director

Mr Robertson has more than 30 years experience as Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and Director of both public and private companies in Australia and Hong Kong. His previous roles include as Chief Financial Officer / GM Finance of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Colliers International Limited and Franklins Limited. Mr Robertson has over 10 years experience in ASX listed mineral exploration companies and is currently a director of Hastings Technology Metal Limited, GreenTech Metals Limited, Artemis Resources Limited and Alien Metals Limited. Mr Robertson was appointed as an Executive Director on 17 September 2012.

Sue-Ann Higgins
Company Secretary and Executive Director

Ms Higgins is an experienced company executive who has worked for over 25 years in the mining industry including in senior legal and commercial roles with ARCO Coal Australia Inc, WMC Resources Ltd, Oxiana Limited and Citadel Resource Group Limited. Ms Higgins has extensive experience in governance and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and mineral exploration, development and operations. Ms Higgins was appointed Company Secretary on 21 August 2013 and was appointed as an executive director on 24 February 2020.

Tim Gilbert
Chief Executive Officer

Tim is a mining engineer with more than three decades of experience in a range of senior roles in the resources sector across multiple commodities, including battery and base metals, diamonds and gold. His expertise covers a range of strategic, operational and technical roles for global mining companies including Rio Tinto, Newmont, Thiess and Gold Fields Australia where he was VP Operations and previously General Manager, Agnew Gold Mine.

Most recently, Tim was COO of Hastings Technology Metals Ltd, managing Hasting’s strategy of fast-tracking the Seven Leaders and Blue Poles deposits at Whiteheads to production.

Tim holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines.

Liam Fromyhr
Exploration Manager

Liam is an exploration and operations geologist with over 20 years Australian and international experience working with listed and private companies and research organisations. Liam specialises in Au, Ag and base metal exploration in volcanic/intrusive environments along with bringing significant experience in FeO mineral systems. Liam has worked with Metal Bank over the last several years progressing the Triumph, 8 Mile, Eidsvold, Millennium and Livingstone projects plus evaluation of other business opportunities.

Trevor Wright
Exploration Consultant

Trevor has over 20 years of mineral exploration and business experience in Australia, New Zealand, USA, China and the South West Pacific region, including a number of years with MBK as Exploration Manager. He has built and managed exploration teams globally including with Anglo Gold Ashanti and has a track record of identifying and developing overlooked opportunities. During his career Trevor has provided high quality exploration solutions to both private and ASX listed companies and has been involved in the foundation and management of a number of successful private resource companies.

Rhys Davies
Exploration Consultant – Australia and MENA

Rhys is is a geologist with extensive experience in mineral exploration and project management in the mining and resources industry across a diverse range of commodities and mineralisation styles. He has experience in private and public sector organisations, having worked for Laramide Resources Ltd, CST Minerals Lady Annie Pty Ltd, Alligator Energy Ltd, Ausmex Mining Group and as a consultant to numerous other companies. Prior to joining MBK, Rhys managed the Geological Survey of Queensland’s CEI Grants.