SOUTHERN CROSS GOLD - Key Persons


David Henstridge

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Non - Executive Director
Mr. Henstridge is a self-employed professional geologist with 50 years' experience in the mining industry including 30 years managing public-listed companies. Mr. Henstridge has been associated with many mineral discoveries worldwide including in Australia, Peru and Finland. Moving into the Canadian capital markets in 1993, he has been associated with companies raising more than $200 million for exploration and project development, been a co-founder of five capital pool companies listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange, all succeeding with qualifying transactions in the exploration industry and the reconstruction and re-listing of several more defunct companies. Mr. Henstridge is currently a director and member of various audit, compensation, corporate governance and nominating committees of other public-listed mineral exploration companies in Canada. Mr. Henstridge holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He holds professional designations from each of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Geological Society of Australia.

Georgina Carnegie

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Economist and International Business Consultant
Ms Carnegie is an economist and international business consultant with extensive board experience in the corporate, government and education sectors. She has over forty years' experience in international research and advisory work, particularly in Asia where she co-owned Market Intelligence (Asia), a Singapore based strategic research firm. Her early career involved senior positions in the Australian government and life insurance sectors. She recently spent more than a decade as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of a natural resources focused private equity firm. She is currently a director of Hannan Metals Ltd (TSXV:HAN), a member of the Vice Chancellor's Industry & Business Advisory Board, University of Newcastle and member of the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Committee (AJBCC). Ms Carnegie recently served on the Australian Government's Australia Korea Foundation and the Executive Board of the Australia Korea Business Council. She previously sat on the Advisory Committee to the Emerging Markets Network of the OECD and early in her career worked at the OECD Secretariat (agricultural commodities). Previous corporate board appointments include Capral Aluminium and Australian Airlines. She maintains long standing links to Australian Universities as a Member of the Councils of the Australian National University (three terms) and Curtin University (WA - three terms) and was a Member of the Board for UNSW's "Unisearch" (two terms). Ms Carnegie has a B Economics (Monash) and an MPA (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard).

Justin Mouchacca - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Secretary
  • Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia
Mr Mouchacca is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. Justin has over 15 years' experience in public company responsibilities including statutory, corporate governance and financial reporting requirements. He graduated from RMIT University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Business majoring in Accounting. Mr Mouchacca completed the Chartered Accountants Program in 2011 and has been appointed Company Secretary and Financial Officer for a number of entities listed on the ASX and unlisted public companies.

Lisa Gibbons

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
Lisa Gibbons has over 30 years' experience as a geologist in exploration and resource development, both in Australia and overseas. Lisa is passionate about creating inclusive, heathy, and safe environments for her team and the communities in which they operate. Lisa believes in actively involving local indigenous and community groups in the process of exploration and resource development by creating employment opportunities and developing sustainable businesses. Based in regional Victoria, Lisa is also involved in livestock farming. She is an active member of the Minerals Council of Australia (Vic). Lisa holds a Bachelor of Applied Science- Geology with Honours from the University of Technology Sydney and a Masters of Teaching (Science) from the University of New England. While working as a Principal Geologist for Newmont, Lisa was a finalist for the Telstra Business Women of the Year Award. Lisa Gibbons is Southern Cross Gold's dedicated General Manager Geology and Stakeholder & Community Engagement. The company is committed to earning the trust of landowners and other community stakeholders. We strive to conduct all exploration activities by meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements and community expectations.

Michael Hudson - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director / Professional Geologist, Explorationist and Entrepreneur With over 30 Years' Experience in Exploration, Project Development and Management in Australia and Internationally
Professional geologist, explorationist and entrepreneur with over 30 years' experience in exploration, project development and management in Australia and internationally. Mr Hudson commenced his career underground for three years in Broken Hill in 1990 with Pasminco Ltd. He has managed and developed exploration to pre-feasibility projects in Pakistan, Australia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Finland, Spain, Portugal and Sweden for major and junior mining companies. He was an integral team member for the discovery of the Portia gold deposit in the Olary district of South Australia, the Duddar Pb-Zn mine in Pakistan, the Norra Karr REE deposit in Sweden, the San Martin Cu-Ag discovery in Peru and the Rompas-Rajapalot gold-cobalt resource in Finland. He is the founder and director of Mawson Gold Ltd (TSX:MAW) and Hannan Metals Ltd (TSXV:HAN) and a director of Sixty Six Capital (CVE:SIX). He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Member of both the Society for Economic Geologists and Australian Institute of Geoscientists.

Nicholas Mead

Job Titles:
  • for Shareholder Enquiries
  • Manager Corporate Development
  • Shareholder Enquiries
Mr Mead has over 20 years experience in business development and investor relations experience primarily in the global mining investment sector Mr Mead started his career as a political risk analyst for WMC Resources Ltd in Brazil on the CVRD privatisation opportunity, he then worked as an investment analyst at AMP Asset Management and mining analyst for Cazenove in Sydney, Australia. Mr Mead subsequently moved to The Sentient Group, a global private equity investor in the mining sector, where he became Partner for Investor Relations concentrating on developing and maintaining relations with investors, consultants and stakeholders. During his time at Sentient, Mr Mead directly managed the raising for three separate investment funds totalling more than US$2bn. Since his time at Sentient, Mr Mead has worked with start up and existing businesses in the mining, property and infrastructure sectors to either raise funds or to advise on investor and stakeholder management. An Australian citizen, Mr Mead has also lived in Brazil, the UK and Canada. He is a graduate of Monash University, the University of Oxford and the Securities Institute of Australia.

Sunday Creek

Sunday Creek is shaping up as the most significant recent discovery in the Victorian goldfields.

Tom EADIE - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Chairman
Explorer, mining executive and company director with many significant mineral discoveries and several successful companies to his name. Mr Eadie has over 40 years' experience as an explorer and geologist in the resources industry. He is the former Executive Chairman of Copper Strike, founding Chairman of Syrah Resources and previously Executive General Manager - Exploration and Technology at Pasminco. He is a past board member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Australian Mineral Industry Research Association.

Zac Turschwell

Zac is a professional geologist with a strong interest in base and precious metal deposits, structural geology and conservation with extensive experience across Australian gold projects. Zac commenced his career with Saracen Gold Mines/Northern Star in the Kalgoorlie goldfields of Western Australia. His experience spanned projects, underground and open pit and exploration positions. He played an integral role in the development to production stage of the ‘Million Dollar' deposit of Carosue Dam. He then gained further underground experience at Stawell Gold Mine before joining Southern Cross Gold in August 2022 to pursue his passion for exploration.