Michael Jardine biography

Michael John Jardine is Managing Director, Director of the Company. Mr. Jardine has previously served as a Director of Atrum Coal Limited (ASX:ATU) and Pegasus Metals Limited (ASX:PUN, now Scorpion Minerals Limited). Mr. Jardine also served as the General Manager, Corporate Development for formerly listed General Mining Corporation (ASX:GMM) from 2013-2016, and Eastern Goldfields (now Ora Banda Mining, ASX:OBM) during the same period. GMM was one of the best performing stocks on the ASX in 2015, before being acquired by Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX:GXY) in all scrip AUD $220m deal in 2016. In his role at GMM, Mr. Jardine was responsible for managing the firm’s equity capital markets function, M&A activities (including Project acquisitions & disposals) and served as one of GMM’s representatives on the Minerals Marketing Committee (in conjunction with GXY and Mitsubishi Corporation as the marketing agent) that agreed the world’s first Spodumene pre-payment facility. This rapidly became established as benchmark, non-dilutive form of Project financing for the WA hard rock Lithium sector. Mr. Jardine is currently also a Non-Executive Director of ASX listed TNT Mines Limited (ASX:TIN) and Indus Energy NL (ASX:IND)and has also previously worked in a Corporate Advisory role for Perth based boutique Investment bank Argonaut Limited, as well as spending several years in senior executive roles with global data firm Synovate (in both Perth and the UK), prior to its acquisition by Ipsos Limited in 2011. Mr. Jardine holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Western Australia.