Allan Ritchie
Chief Executive Officer
Allan graduated from the University of Technology in Sydney in 1986 with a Bachelor of Business and subsequently attained a post graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Financial Services Institute of Australia. Allan’s distinguished career spans 30 years in both the energy and resources sectors, in investment banking and leadership roles in both private and publicly listed companies.
Grant Pierce OAM
Non-Executive Chairman
Grant is a qualified mining engineer with 30 years of operating experience in both Australia and Africa. He has managed both open-pit and underground mines across a range of mineral commodities. In addition, he has held numerous senior development roles, taking green and brown field projects to either shovel ready status or into production.
Rod Chittenden
Non-Executive Director
Rod has 40 years of experience in the Minerals industry across Africa, Australia and South America, both in executive management roles and metallurgical project development roles from exploration to production.
Steven Georgiadis
Non-Executive Director
Steven is an attorney with over 20 years of experience encompassing private equity transactions, corporate finance and corporate governance. Steven is a highly respected advisor to private and public companies both within Australia and internationally. His experience covers both listed and unlisted companies with operations in Tanzania and South-East Africa.
Geoff Brayshaw AM
Chief Financial Officer
Geoff Brayshaw practiced as a Chartered Accountant for 35 years. His area of expertise was primarily in audit and assurance including corporate finance. At the time of his semi retirement from practice in 2005, Geoff was an Audit and Assurance partner for and former managing partner of the Perth based practice of BDO.
Julian Rockett
In-House Counsel and Company Secretary
Julian is Adavale’s in-house counsel and Company Secretary. He spearheads Adavale’s corporate advisory function to support the Board and new management’s capital raising and Nickel initiatives. Mr Rockett brings a wealth of experience of equity raising, M&A and other corporate transactions specialising in the small-cap ASX listed space.