Luke Frederick Atkins

Mr Atkins is a lawyer by profession and one of the founders of the company. Mr Atkins brings to the board extensive experience in the areas of mining, exploration, and corporate governance. Mr Atkins is also Non-Executive Director of the successful ASX listed mining and exploration company, Bauxite Resources Ltd (BRL) (now Australian Silica Quartz Ltd). Mr Atkins formerly held the role of Executive Chairman of BRL after co-founding the company in 2007. He has played a key role in BRL third party negotiations to successfully access funding, joint venture partnerships, land and infrastructure.

Mr Atkins has had extensive experience in capital raisings and has held a number of executive and non-executive directorships of private and publicly listed companies including a number of mining and exploration companies.