Mr. Stubbs was appointed on 26 November 2009. Mr. Stubbs is a lawyer of 35 years experience and has previously worked with D’Aguilar Gold CEO Nick Mather on the boards of numerous emerging globally significant resource companies. He is the co‐founder of the legal firm Stubbs Barbeler and has practiced extensively in the area of Commercial Law including Stock Exchange listings and all areas of mining law.

Mr. Stubbs has held the position of director of various public companies over the past 25 years in the mineral exploration and biotech fields. He is also the former Chairman of Alchemia Limited, and Bemax Resources N.L which discovered and developed extensive mineral sands resources in the Murray Basin. He was the founding Chairman of Arrow Energy Limited which originally pioneered coal seam gas development in Queensland’s Bowen and Surat Basins from 1998, and is now a world‐wide coal seam gas company.

Mr. Stubbs is Non‐executive Chairman of Stradbroke Ferries Limited (director since 2005), as well as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Tetra Q ‐ the Commercial Arm of the Centre for Integrated Pre‐clinical Drug Development of the University of Queensland. He also serves as a non‐executive on the Board of Lodestone Energy Limited and Business Management Limited.