The Board

Tunku Naquiyuddin
Non-Executive Chairman

Tunku Naquiyuddin is a prominent Malaysian businessman and is presently the Chairman of Sino Hua-An International Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia (formerly known as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) with a substantial business in China. He is also the chairman of the board of Kian Joo Can Factory Berhad a company which is also listed on Bursa Malaysia.

Tunku Naquiyuddin was a former diplomat and represented the foreign mission of Malaysia in Paris. He is also a keen environmentalist and was a committee member for the World Wide Fund for Nature (Malaysia) and a council member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva.

Tunku Naquiyuddin’s interests include being a founding chairman of The Federation of Public Listed Companies Berhad in Malaysia. He was also the head of the Malaysia-France Economic and Trade Association for 8 years.

As chairman of the Alliance Francaise in Malaysia for over 18 years, he was instrumental in the promotion of Malaysia-France cultural and business links. He was nominated by the Malaysian Minister of Finance to sit on the committee of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in 1989 for five years.

Mr Wayne David Norris
Managing Director

Mr Norris has over 35 years’ experience in the field of metallurgical processing and commissioning. His career spans from process operating to senior management of the successful Sally Malay 750,000 TPA nickel sulphide recovery plant. More recently, Mr Norris was a member of the senior management team of the OM (Manganese) Limited Bootu Creek manganese project in the Northern Territory.

Mr Norris has been involved at senior management levels in the commissioning of five processing facilities in Australia, being the Haveluck Gold Mine in Meekatharra WA, the Ranger Uranium Mines project at Jabiru in the Northern Territory, the Mt Todd Gold Mines Stage 1 and 2 in the Northern Territory, the Sally Malay project for Kimberley Nickel Mines in Western Australia and the OMH OM (Manganese) Limited Manganese project in the Northern Territory. His extensive metallurgical knowledge has included the training of nationals in Ghana at the Damang mine site for two years for Goldfields Ghana Ltd.

Mr Brian David Thomas
Non-Executive Director

Mr Thomas was formerly a Director of Corporate Finance with a major Australian Bank and a Vice President with a global investment banking group. He has extensive experience with the financing of energy and resource projects. Mr Thomas has also been director of several mining companies including Chrome Corporation Limited, where as managing director he was instrumental in the acquisition and finance of a chrome mining project in South Africa. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a senior associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Ms Xi Xi
Non-Executive Director

Ms Xi has extensive experience in evaluating and managing private and publicly held companies in the mining and oil and gas sectors. From November 2004 until July 2011 she served as Senior Analyst for Tigris Financial Group in New York where she directed and managed the activities of Electrum Ltd which owns a diversified international portfolio of gold exploration assets. She also served as CEO of a Mexico-focussed exploration company and was responsible for the creation of a major silver company. From 1999 to 2004 Ms Xi held various senior executive positions in the energy sector at Enron, Energy Intelligence Group and American International Group.

Ms Xi holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University in Advanced International Studies.

Company Secretary

Mr Anthony Ho

Mr Ho graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 with Deloittes. Mr Ho is presently the principal of a public practice, specializing in providing corporate and financial services to ASX-listed companies. Prior to establishing his practice in 1991, he spent 7 years in a senior corporate role with a major investment and resource group in Western Australia.

Team in Perth

Mr Mark Laing
Principal Mining Engineer

Mark Laing is a qualified mining engineer with more than 25 years experience in project and operational management in Australia, South Africa and Indonesia. He has held similar positions with mining companies such as OM Holdings, Minara, Thiess, Aurora Gold, St. Barbara and Dominion.

Mr Laing will play a leading role in the development and optimisation of Bibiani. He will also be pivotal to the company’s aggressive exploration push at Bibiani and to its search for strategic opportunities to grow Noble through project and corporate acquisitions.

Mr Peter Johnston
Chief Operating Officer

Mr Johnston is a qualified metallurgist with more than 25 years of experience in senior and executive management roles in operating and developing gold and base metal mines in Australia, West Africa and South America. More recently he has held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, General Manager Operations and Process Manager for a range of gold mining companies; including Range River Gold, Minera IRL, RedBack and GoldFields. Peter has also successfully worked as a consultant metallurgist and has broad experience in project and environmental management.

Peter will initially play a pivotal role in advancing the Company’s Bibiani Gold Project back into production, ahead of the pursuit of further Company growth initiatives in Ghana.

Mr David Leavy
Chief Financial Officer

Mr Leavy holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Murdoch University and a Master of Applied Finance degree from Macquarie University. He has gained extensive experience in currency and commodity derivative markets as well as the assessment and financing of mining projects at a major Australian bank. During this time he had responsibility for the commodity derivative marketing and sales, developed several strategic initiatives for the commodities business and was heavily involved in financing of smaller resource companies.

Mr Leavy has also held the CFO role for a private WA based mining company during the redevelopment phase of a gold project. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Patrick Conway
Financial Controller

Mrs Anne Barker
Investor Relations Manager

Mr John Baiden
Accountant

Ms Stephanie Rufus
Office Manager

Team in Ghana

Mr Paul Gyasi
Finance Director

Mr. Gyasi holds an M.A from the University of Greenwich and is a Chartered Management Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in (Ghana).

Mr Gyasi has considerable experience in finance and brings with him extensive in-country knowledge with his appointment to Noble. His career in finance has seen him in positions of Administration Manager for Golden Star Resources.

Chief Accountant and Treasurer with Abosso Goldfields (Ranger Minerals) where he was responsible for managing the Finance Department and the company’s liquidity in London and the Ghanaian Money Markets. While at Abosso, Mr. Gyasi helped build many SME’s in the mining community and offered free business advisory services to many companies in and around Tarkwa.

Mr, Gyasi served with distinction for 8 years as an Accountant with Trafalgar House Group/Kvaener in UK, where he was involved in the strategic plan for the company. In the UK, Mr. Gyasi also has worked for Virgin Group, Bereshford Pension Fund and Theo & Co. Mr. Gyasi is also a partner of KAP Consultancy, a management consultancy firm in Ghana.

Mr Phill Schiemer
Group Geology Manager

Mr Schiemer is a geologist of 22 years’ experience, with a broad exposure to many geological environments and with several years’ experience managing exploration after a period of fifteen years as a contract geologist. Mr Schiemer’s expertise is mainly in gold, but also uranium, polymetallic skarn systems, nickel, PGEs and iron ore, in a range of positions covering resource estimation, grade control and exploration both grass roots and near-mine. He has had extensive exposure to over 50 different orebodies and geological environments, including in Ghana, the US, Laos, Thailand, PNG and the Philippines.