Brett Grosvenor
Executive Chair
Mr Grosvenor is an experienced executive with over 25 years’ experience in the Mining and Power industry. Holds a dual tertiary qualification in Engineering and a Master in Business, and prior to this was the Director of Development of Primero Group, focused on the development of projects from an initial concept through to contract delivery and operation.
He is currently a director of ASX listed Perpetual Resources Ltd and Firebird Metals Limited. He is a member of the Project Steering Group for Patriot Battery Metals and also the Australian Industry Consultation Group for Battery and Critical Minerals.
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).
George Bauk
Non-Executive Director
Mr Bauk is an experienced executive, with 30 years in the resources industry, having held global operational and corporate roles with WMC Resources and Western Metals.
He has experience managing from exploration to production in Australia and internationally, with expertise across a variety of commodities, including rare earths, lithium, graphite, gold, uranium and copper. During his time as Managing Director of Northern Minerals, he led his team from a greenfields heavy rare earth explorer, to one of the few global producers of high value dysprosium outside of China.
Alongside his position as director at Firetail, he is also the Executive Chairman of ASX listed Thunderbird Resources (ASX:THB). He also serves as Non-Executive Chairman for both Evion Group NL (ASX:EVG) and Lithium Australia Limited (ASX:LIT), and is Executive Director of PVW Resources Limited (ASX:PVW).
Management & Technical team
Glenn Poole
Chief Executive Officer
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.
Robin Wilson
Exploration Consultant
Robin has held senior exploration positions in several exploration and mining companies, plus 5 years working in oil and gas exploration. He is also Technical Director of Valor Resources (ASX:VAL)
During nearly 30 years of involvement in mineral exploration, Mr Wilson has worked on gold, nickel, REE, uranium, copper, lithium and phosphate projects throughout Australia, Africa, South America and North America and was involved in the initial discovery and outlining of several gold deposits in Australia. Between 2006 and 2021 he led the Northern Minerals exploration team that discovered the Browns Range REE deposits that have advanced through development to production of HRE carbonate.
Alison Dines
Senior Geologist
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).
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.