Board of Directors

Ian Middlemas

Chairman

Mr Middlemas is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He worked for a large international Chartered Accounting firm before joining the Normandy Mining Group where he was a senior group executive for approximately 10 years. He has had extensive corporate and management experience, and is currently a Director with a number of publicly listed companies in the resources sector.

Tony Swiericzuk

CEO and Managing Director

Mr Swiericzuk is a Mining Engineer with an MBA, and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a highly regarded mining executive with extensive experience across multiple industries and commodities. Prior to joining Salt Lake Potash spent more than 9 years in Fortescue Metals Group Limited (FMG) and was integral in the construction, ramp-up and optimisation of that business in the roles of Director Business Development and Exploration, General Manager Christmas Creek Mine and General Manager Port. He has a diversified construction, operations, shipping and logistics background in mining, steelworks and ports industries spanning a 25 year career.

Phil Montgomery

Non-Executive Director

Mr Montgomery is a highly experienced mining industry executive who was most recently Vice President – Projects at BHP, responsible for the development of BHP’s Potash business through its Jansen project in Saskatchewan, Canada. Mr. Montgomery previously held senior project development positions at BHP and Billiton for over 20 years working across a number of commodities and geographies, including leadership of BHP’s Iron Ore growth program (2002–12). He holds a BSc (Mechanical Engineering) from Oxford Brookes University in the UK and completed the Executive Leadership Programme at INSEAD.

Peter Thomas

Non-Executive Director

Mr Thomas is a senior executive with significant experience in project operations, construction, finance and strategy. Mr Thomas held senior executive positions at Fortescue between 2004-2014 including Project Director in charge of the $4.7bn T155 port and rail infrastructure investment and Director of Corporate Services. He has previously worked for McKinsey and Lehman Brothers in the USA and more recently held the position of CEO of the Balla Balla Infrastructure Group (Todd Corporation). He is currently CFO of Decmil, the ASX listed construction and engineering group. Mr Thomas holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BEc, BSc from Macquarie University.

Matthew Bungey

Non-Executive Director

Mr Bungey is a Chemical Engineer with over 20 years experience in Natural Resources. He commenced his career as a Process Engineer with BHP at the Centre for Minerals Technology in the United States where he was responsible for process design and research into bacterial leaching of copper-sulphide ore. He then spent several years in the Marketing Division of BHP Billiton based in The Hague. He was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Mining and Metals with Barclays Investment Bank in London.