Glenn Robert Featherby - B.Com, ACA
Non-Executive Chairman
Glenn Featherby joined the Board on 2 August 2004. He has over 20 years experience in corporate advisory work and has worked extensively in the resources sector. Glenn worked with KPMG in Perth and London before establishing his own accounting practice in Perth in 1997. He has previously been finance director of AIM-listed Regal Petroleum Plc and non-executive director of Canadian and AIM-listed European Goldfields Limited.
Mark David Reilly - B.Bus, ACA
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Reilly joined the Board on 2 August 2004. He has over 15 years experience in advisory work with extensive experience in the mining, banking and finance industries. Mark worked with Coopers & Lybrand in Perth before establishing an accounting practice with Glenn Featherby. He is the former administrator of the Company’s previous subsidiary, Renison Bell Limited.
Christopher David Grannell
Non-Executive Director
David Grannell joined the Board on 4 April 2005. He has significant London capital markets experience focused in the natural resources sector and was an executive director and chief financial officer of Canadian and AIM-listed European Goldfields Limited. David is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants based in London.
James Gerald Leahy
Non-Executive Director
James Leahy joined the Board on 26 April 2012. Mr. Leahy has more than 26 years experience in the mining sector as a senior mining analyst and as a specialist corporate broker with expertise in international institutional and hedge funds, foreign capital and private equity markets. As a founding partner of the natural resources team at Mirabaud Securities, one of the leading UK based stockbroking firms, offering specialised and quality stockbroking to corporate and institutional clients, Mr. Leahy has advised a number of natural resource focused funds in the UK, raised more than US$2 billion in equity for resource companies and participated in over 30 IPO’s.
Scott Yelland
Chief Operating Officer
Scott Yelland is a mining engineer with over 28 years experience in the mining industry. Scott has a Masters degree in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Scott joins Forte Energy from Berkeley Resources Ltd, an ASX and AIM listed resources company with advanced uranium exploration and development projects in Spain. Prior to joining Berkeley in April 2007, Scott held Senior management roles with Kinross in Russia and with Rio Tinto in Brazil and Australia.
Bosse Gustafsson - M.Sc (Geology & Mineralogy), EurGeol
Chief Geologist
Bosse Gustafsson joined the Company on 15 January 2006 as a
Consulting Geologist. He served on the Board as Technical
Director from 3 October 2006 until 30 April 2012. Bosse has more
than 40 years geological experience, including more than 18 years
in uranium exploration, and is a lifetime member of the Geological
Society of Sweden and a member of the European Federation of
Geologists. Bosse oversees the Company's exploration programmes in
Africa, having formerly been Senior Geologist in the Mineral
Resources Information Offaice of the Geological Survey of Sweden.
He has previously managed a number of exploration programmes both
in that role and on secondment to private companies in various
locations throughout Europe, Africa and Latin
America.