Rob Jewson
Non-Executive Chair
Mr Jewson has a wealth of global experience in corporate transactions and operational geology roles across the global mining sector. He brings 18 years of experience specialising in identifying geological opportunities and commercialising resource projects.
Glenn Poole
Managing Director
Glenn is an experienced technical geologist with a proven track record in developing and rejuvenating mineral assets with numerous ASX listed companies.
Glenn was Technical Director and Chief Geologist at Greenstone Resources (ASX:GSR). He was technical lead for Firefly Resources prior to the merger with Spartan Resources (ASX:SPR) and held senior positions within Northern Star (ASX:NST) and Superior Gold (TSXV).
Glenn holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Otago and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from La Trobe University.
Simon Lawson
Non-Executive Director
Mr Lawson is a professional geoscientist with more than 16 years operational experience spanning multiple commodities and jurisdictions and was a founding member of Northern Star Resources (ASX:NST).
He holds a Master of Science in Geology from Auckland University and has more than 15 years of exploration, production and management experience in gold and base metals.
He is currently the Managing Director of Spartan Resources Limited (ASX:SPR).
Management & Technical team
Alison Dines
Exploration Manager
Alison is an experienced exploration geologist with over 13 years experience in the junior mining sector across multiple commodities and deposit types.
Ms Dines has worked on rare earth elements, epithermal gold, porphyry copper-gold/base metals, IOCG, lithium, intrusion-related gold, shear hosted gold and stratabound copper deposits throughout Australia. Most recently Alison was the Exploration Manager at ChemX Materials Ltd (ASX:CMX).
Craig McNab
Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Mr McNab is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary with over 15 years’ experience in the resource industry and accounting profession in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He initially qualified as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers and his experience includes senior finance positions held at the De Beers Group and various corporate roles at Anglo American plc in London. He provides services to a number of ASX-listed and unlisted companies, specialising in corporate compliance and financial accounting.
Jhony Vargas
Project Manager – Peru
Jhony is an Exploration Geologist with over 10 years’ experience in regional and district exploration of deposit type Skarn (Cu-Au and Cu-Mo), porphyry (Cu-Au and Cu-Mo), epithermal high and low sulphidation (Au-Ag), & polymetallic veins of (Ag-Pb-Zn).
Prior to Firetail, Jhony gained extensive experience in exploration projects in Peru, including roles with Kuya Silver, Miramont Resources, Compania Minera Milpo, Silver Standard and Newmont Goldcorp Corporation.
He has been working for Kiwanda (Firetail’s Peruvian subsidiary) on the Picha Project since 2021.