Directors
John Dow - Chairman and Independent Director
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A geologist with 41 years experience as a successful
greenfields
explorer, exploration manager, and mining executive in New Zealand,
South East Asia, the United States and Latin
America.
His most recent executive appointment was as chairman and
managing
director of Newmont Australia Limited, the Australian subsidiary of
one of
the world's largest gold producers.
He is currently chairman of Straterra, non-executive
chairman of Troy
Resources NL, and non-executive chairman of Glass Earth Limited.
Gordon Ward - Executive Director
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Managing Director of Pike River and a Director of Straterra.
22 years experience in the resource sector, including New
Zealand Oil & Gas Limited where, as general manager, he
managed NZOG's involvement in developing Pike River Coal,
the Tui oil and Kupe oil/condensate
fields.
Professor Raymond Meyer - Non Executive Director
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Deputy chairman of NZOG and a director of Wellington Drive
Technologies Limited.
42 years experience in engineering and a former director of
the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand,
Transpower New
Zealand, Watercare Services,
Auckland Uni Services, and
chairman of the Forest Research Institute.
Tony Radford - Non Executive Director
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Chairman of NZOG and a director of Pike River since 1983.
27 years experience in resource management, with most
of his
career in the petroleum and mining industries.
Stuart Nattrass - Independent Director
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Director of Fonterra Co-Operative Group since 2003.
18 years experience in international financial markets,
principally foreign exchange risk management.
Dipak Agarwalla - Non Executive Director
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Managing director of Saurashtra Fuels Private Limited,
a
coal mining family company operating for more than
100 years and now one of India's
largest private coke
producers.
Arun Jagatramka - Non Executive Director
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Vice chairman and managing director of Gujarat NRE
Coke
Limited, the largest non-captive metallurgical
coke manufacturer in India and the first Indian company
to own and
operate coal mines in Australia.