ANDROMEDA METALS LIMITED - Key Persons


Austen Perrin

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Non - Executive Director With AJ Lucas Group Limited
Austen Perrin is currently a Non-Executive Director with AJ Lucas Group Limited and up until recently a Non-Executive Director for Round Oak Minerals Pty Limited. Austen currently chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for AJ Lucas and previously for Round Oak Minerals Pty Limited. Austen previously worked as a group CFO/Finance Director for large ASX/ NZX Companies for nearly 20 years. He previously held the group CFO roles for the AJ Lucas Group, Whitehaven Coal, Asciano, Pacific National and Toll NZ Limited. Austen has had significant experience in developing capital management strategies and financing solutions to support corporate objectives including development of key infrastructure and transport projects and underground coal mines. He has a breadth of experience gained in a variety of industries including transport and logistics, ports, road and rail infrastructure, coal, copper and gold mining, unconventional shale gas, mining services, oil, gas and water pipeline construction, general building construction and insurance. He has been a chartered accountant for over 33 years and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Bob Katsiouleris - CEO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Managing Director
Bob has over twenty five years of combined operational, engineering, and commercial experience in industrial minerals, and base metals, with an emphasis on improving profitability from mine to market. Bob's experience spans plant design and start-ups, new process and product development, and sales and marketing experience in mature and emerging markets for a wide range of minerals including zircon, rutile, borates, diatomite, silica, perlite, and more recently in zinc, lead, and associated by-products. Bob has had success across bulk minerals and non-ferrous metals by always maintaining a focus on adding value via developing and implementing an industrial marketing model that creates uplift in a business by understanding the balance between mine to market, and market to mine.

Joseph Ranford - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Mining Engineer
Joe Ranford is a mining engineer with 25 years' senior management experience across both domestic and international mining companies. Joe has significant experience bringing mining operations into production within sensitive communities and considerable knowledge of the South Australian mining approval process and stakeholder landscape. Most recently, he held the role as Chief Operating Officer for Nordic Gold Inc., a Canadian based company which was the previous owner of the Laiva Gold Mine in Finland, where he re-established mining operations and brought the project back into production from care and maintenance. Prior to his role at Nordic Gold Inc, Joe was Operations Manager for Terramin Australia Limited where he managed all operational and technical aspects of the Angas Zinc mine and championed the evaluation and approval processes for the Bird in Hand Gold Project Joe is focused on bringing the deposits of the Great White Kaolin Project on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula project into production. Growing up in the region, Joe has genuine understanding and respect for the local community and wants to continue building partnerships based on creating shared value.

Mick Wilkes

Job Titles:
  • Independent Non - Executive Chair
  • Mining Executive and Company Director
  • Non - Executive Chair of Kingston Resources Limited
Mick Wilkes is an experienced mining executive and company director with more than 35 years of broad international mining experience coupled with a successful track record of leading the development and operation of greenfield mines. Most recently in his executive career, Mick was the President and CEO of dual listed (ASX and TSX) OceanaGold Corporation (ASX: OGC) from 2011 to 2020 where he led the transformation from a single asset junior company to a multinational mid-tier producer with four operations across three countries. In previous roles he was the Executive General Manager of Operations at OZ Minerals responsible for the development of the Prominent Hill copper/gold project in South Australia and General Manager of the Sepon gold/copper project for Oxiana based in Laos. Mick is currently a Non-Executive Chair of Kingston Resources Limited (ASX: KSN), Non-Executive Director of Genesis Minerals Limited (ASX: GMD), and a member of the Sustainable Minerals Institute's Advisory Board at the University of Queensland. He was previously the Chair of the Governance Committee and a member of the Administration Committee of the World Gold Council.

Pascal Alexander-Bossy - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Pascal is an experienced commodity and mining finance professional. Over a 16-year career, he has developed and led global commodity debt and investment portfolios in large financial institutions and trading houses. His financing expertise covers the full commodity cycle, from early-stage exploration through to project finance and trade finance. Pascal began his career at Macquarie Bank, where he worked within the Metals & Energy Capital team as Vice President in the London office. This was followed by senior roles in European banks and trading houses. He returned to Australia with his family in 2021, working as Investment Director in Global Credit Investment's natural resources team in Sydney before joining Andromeda.

Sarah Clarke - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Company Secretary
  • General Counsel
Sarah Clarke brings over 17 years of experience as a lawyer working with ASX-listed energy and resources companies, with extensive knowledge of the industry and regulatory environment. She was most recently a Partner at Piper Alderman. Sarah was an elected Councillor of the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy (SACOME) from 2018 to 2022, is well-connected in the industry and deeply understands the issues facing South Australian mining companies. Sarah was previously named a "Leading" South Australian energy and resources lawyer in Doyle's guide. She was recommended for Natural resources (transactions & regulatory) in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Australia and recognised for Corporate Law by Best Lawyers Australia.

Sue-Ann Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Ms Higgins is an experienced legal practitioner and company director, with diversified skills and global corporate experience, gained over 30 years of experience in executive and non-executive roles in the resources sector. During that time, Ms Higgins has held senior legal and commercial roles with various listed entities, including ARCO Coal Australia Inc, WMC Resources Ltd, Oxiana Limited and is currently an Executive Director of Metal Bank Limited (ASX:MBK). Ms Higgins is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Energy & Resources Law (formerly AMPLA) and the Governance Institute of Australia Ms Higgins holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from the University of Queensland, Graduate Diplomas in Company Secretarial Practice (Chartered Secretaries Australia) and Applied Finance and Investment (Securities Institute of Australia), has completed the Australian Graduate School of Management's Executive Program on Risk Management and AICD's International Company Directors Course.