Board & Management

Bruce an experienced senior geologist and public company director. He previously held the position of Chief Geologist at Porgera, a large Intrusive Related Gold System deposit similar to the style of mineralisation being targeted by Tectonic Gold. At the time, Porgera was producing 1 million ounces of gold per annum and was one of the largest gold mines in the world.

Following his successful technical career in mining with major international gold companies such as Dominion Mining, Placer Dome and Plutonic Resources, Bruce became a consultant to the industry and professional director. He co-founded Ophir Partners, a resources and energy industry consulting firm assiting groups in building high impact boards and senior management teams. He brings his knowledge from consulting to many leading international exploration and mining companies to his role as Chairman of Tectonic Gold and in leading the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. Bruce is a national Councilor for the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) and Chairman of the Sydney branch of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM). He is also a member of The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (MCIM); The Society of Economic Geologists (MSEG) and The Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). Bruce has an M.Sc. (Earth Sciences) from Waikato University and an MBA from Deakin University.

Brett is an experienced entrepreneur and corporate financier with expertise as an investment banker in capital markets, mergers, acquisitions and private equity, including positions at Credit Suisse, FBR Capital Markets and UBS. More recently, Brett has focused on project development in the resources industry, having founded and funded a number of Australian resource companies including DEI Ltd, Signature Gold Ltd, Chrysos Corporation Limited and Tellus Holdings Ltd. Brett currently heads up the joint venture partner of Agripower Australia Limited, a private equity backed industrial minerals company focused on silicon products. Agripower is one of Australia's largest industrial minerals companies, with an extensive R&D programme and global distribution network, and has a mining, processing and export operation in Queensland proximate to the Signature Gold projects.

Brett holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from Duke University and is a CFA charterholder. Brett has international finance experience as a senior investment banker with UBS and Credit Suisse in London, New York and Sydney. He was appointed as a Director of the Company on 26 May 2015.

Sam is a corporate lawyer with over 10 years’ experience in the natural resources sector, in both legal counsel and executive management positions. Sam is currently the Director of Corporate Finance and Legal Counsel for the Dragon Group, a London-based natural resources venture capital firm, a Non-Executive Director of AIM-quoted Red Rock Resources plc, a natural resource development company, and a Non-Executive Director of AIM-quoted investing company, Glenwick plc. During time spent in these roles, Mr Quinn has gained significant experience in the administration, operation, financing and promotion of natural resource companies.

Prior to working in the mining sector, Sam worked as a corporate lawyer for Jackson McDonald Barristers & Solicitors in Perth, Western Australia and for Nabarro LLP in London. Sam graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts and is a qualified lawyer in Western Australia and in England & Wales. He was appointed as Company Secretary to the Company on 18 June 2015 and appointed as a Director of the Company in 2017.

Zeg has spent his entire career in financial services, starting in 1987 with CitiBank as a trainee market maker, before moving to Robert Fleming (latterly acquired by Chase Manhattan, now JP Morgan Chase & Co) to work as a market-maker and sales-trader. Following this Zeg became a sales-trader with London Stock Exchange (both Main Market and AIM) focussed advisers and investment houses including Evolution Securities, Piper Jaffray and Northland Capital Partners. At Northland Capital Partners, Zeg worked directly with companies to help them to raise investor awareness. Zeg is currently Managing Director of The London Trading Company (LONTRAD) which provides brokerage services to professional and institutional clients. He was appointed as a Director of the Company on 19 September 2016.

Peter has extensive management experience in developing resource projects in Australia and internationally, including gold, uranium, copper, tungsten, base metals and industrial minerals. Peter has also had international banking experience, based in London for one of the world’s largest project financing banking groups. Peter was the founder and Managing Director of Hargraves Resources, a very successful gold mining business which was listed on the ASX and sold to a large international gold company. Following the sale of Hargraves Peter acquired the cornerstone asset of the Signature portfolio, Mt Cassidy. Peter is Managing Director of the Agripower Australia Ltd Group of companies, a private equity backed business that is involved in environmental science and agriculture. Peter has read in and completed studies in Mathematics and Engineering Science - Mining.

Alexander Teluk is a professional geologist and member of the AIG (Australian Institute of Geoscientists) and CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum), with +45 years of diversified experience in the exploration and mining, in corporate industry and government surveys. Alex has remained working for Signature Gold since 2010.

From 1966 to 1980, he has worked in senior and management capacities with several major Australian and international companies, including: Broken Hill South, Aberfoyle-Cominco, Chevron Exploration Corporation and Newmont Australia, respectively. A brief tenure was also spent with the Geological Survey of South Australia and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission during this period. Since 1980, through his company Geodyne Pty Limited, he has provided independent consulting services to numerous major and junior exploration and mining companies. As well, during this period, Alex co-founded and managed several private exploration companies.

His exploration experience was acquired throughout Australia, and New Caledonia, and regions in Kalimantan, Philippines and New Zealand. Extensive assessments were also completed on several projects in Argentina. This experience covers a broad range of both metallic and non-metallic commodities, ore deposit types and geotectonic terranes; a summary of which is attached hereto. An extended association with RobSearch Australia (formerly Robertson Australia) has also resulted in extensive evaluations and preparation of IPO expert geological reports on numerous major mining and exploration projects.

Mr Teluk’s cumulative, diverse and continuous professional experience in mining and exploration over +45 years, has provided his clients/employers with incisive, effective and trusted evaluation of their properties as well as forward strategic planning and selection of new areas for their ongoing activities.

Jonathan is General Manager for Signature Gold. He has previously held senior technical roles in AngloGold Ashanti and Perilya Ltd. and brings with him extensive international exploration and mining operational and risk management experience. Jonathan specialises in integrated project development and has an in-depth knowledge of leading projects from exploration stage through feasibility, development, construction and into operation.

Jonathan holds a B.Sc. Honours (Geology) from Rhodes University; a Master’s degree in Economic Geology from the University of Tasmania, and a Masters of Mining Engineering from the University of New South Wales.

He is a member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM CP Geo - 304542) and The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD - 2407690). Jonathan is a Competent Person as defined by the 2012 JORC Code for Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation for various precious, base metal and industrial mineral deposits.

Anne has extensive experience in the resources sector, having held senior management roles with a number of listed public Australian exploration and mining companies over the last 25 years. She has also spent more than a decade as Company Secretary for several listed public companies. Anne is a qualified accountant and principal of Australian Mining Corporate and Administrative Services Pty Ltd (AMCAS) which provides Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretarial function and support including accounting, financial management and administrative services on a consulting basis to public listed and private companies as well as unlisted and pre-IPO companies.