Dr Raymond Shaw (Chairman)
Dr Raymond Shaw is a geologist and geophysicist with more than 30 years’ experience in the resources and energy sector including the oil, gas and coal industries.
He commenced his professional career as a petroleum explorationist with Shell Development Australia in Perth, prior to working for various
consulting groups including the Swiss based international consulting firm Petroconsultants SA, as resident director based in Singapore and responsible
for its Far East operations.
He has consulted extensively to industry, government, and international aid agencies on a variety of resource projects throughout Australia and Asia,
including the World Bank, Asia Development Bank and Ausaid. He was a part time consultant with the New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources
for 7 years providing input for industry initiatives during the late 1990′s and early 2000’s. Dr Shaw was founding Managing Director of Great Artesian Oil
and Gas Limited prior to its listing on the ASX in 2003 until April 2007.
In May 2007 he became Executive Chairman of ASX listed Enterprise Energy Limited. In 2008 Ray Shaw oversaw the merger and backdoor listing of some
$250 million of coal assets into Enterprise Energy as part of a restructuring and change in business to form Bandanna Energy Limited, of which he is
currently Managing Director. Bandanna holds extensive thermal coal assets in the Galilee and Bowen basins of Queensland.
He is also a director of Red Gum Resources Ltd.
Mr Torey Marshall (Managing Director)
Mr Torey Marshall is a geologist with broad based technical and business development experience in the minerals, petroleum and geothermal sectors.
This has resulted in the successful execution of various exploration programs (some resulting in discoveries), in a number of different areas. Having
worked extensively as an exploration geoscientist, his skills have been considerably expanded to include senior management experience of various private and
public (unlisted) companies.
As part of his consulting practice, he has developed strategies for, and acquired projects on behalf of a number of clients at a number of scales such as;
$1-$5m acreage transactions, $18m sale of a private company, evaluated and executed a $100m bid for a development project.
He has assisted a number of public and private (unlisted) companies build their businesses to enhance shareholder value such as Phoenix Oil and Gas Ltd,
Australian Oil Company Ltd, Red Gum Resources Ltd, Great Artesian Oil and Gas Ltd & QGC Ltd (A BG Group Company). He is a director of Red Gum Resources Ltd.
Norman J Zillman (Non-Executive Director)
Norman Zillman (aged 66 years) is a professional geologist (B.Sc. Geology and B.Sc.Hons. Botany University of Queensland) with more than 40 years experience in minerals, petroleum, coal, coal bed methane and geothermal exploration and production in Australia and internationally. His initial experience was as a petroleum geologist with international companies Aquitaine Petroleum in Australia and Papua New Guinea and Union Oil Company of California in Australia and Indonesia. Mr Zillman has occupied the positions of Deputy CEO of Crusader Limited, General Manager Exploration and Production with Beach Petroleum N L and Claremont Petroleum Limited and Manager of the Petroleum Branch of the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy and State Mining Engineer for Petroleum. From 1994 to early 1998 Mr Zillman was Regional Manager of Northern Queensland for the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy, based in Charters Towers, where he supervised all aspects of mineral exploration and mining activities in that region including among others, the Ravenswood, Pajingo, Mt Leyshon and Thalanga Mines.
More recently Norm has been responsible for a number of successful public resource floats on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). He was the inaugural Managing Director and a Founder of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) company Queensland Gas Company Limited (QGC) being responsible for the initial acquisition of all of its areas, the successful floating on the ASX and the discovery of QGC’s first CBM gas field Argyle. He was also the inaugural Chairman and Founder of conventional oil and gas company Great Artesian Oil and Gas Limited (GOG) which he also successfully listed on the ASX resulting in numerous oil and gas discoveries.
Norm was also non-executive Chairman and a Founder of Blue Energy Limited (BUL), Hot Rock Limited (HRL) and a Director and Founder of Planet Gas Limited (PGS). He was a Founder and still is a significant shareholder of Bandanna Energy Limited.
Norm is presently non-executive co-Chairman of China Yunnan Copper Australia Limited (CYU), non-executive Chairman of Burleson Energy Limited (BUR) and non-executive Director of Earth Heat Resources Limited (EHR). Norm is a member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Aust.I.M.M) and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA).
Mal Lucas-Smith(Company Secretary)
Mal Lucas-Smith has over 40 years experience in finance, executive and non executive management, property development, corporate secretarial
and administrative services.
During that period he spent 12 years with State Bank of New South Wales and 18 years with the property finance and the property joint venture divisions of
Australian Guarantee Corporation Limited, at the time a listed subsidiary of Westpac Bank.
Mal left AGC of his own accord in September 1987 to form a corporate services business and has since worked within and consulted to the corporate
sector often assisting new start ups and existing operations proposing to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, and also providing local representative
and registered office services for offshore entities.
He is the Company Secretary of Centrebet International (ASX listed), Healthlinx Limited (ASX listed), Medivac Limited (ASX listed) and
Red Gum Resources (unlisted).