Board & Management

Chairman

Len Dean, B.Sc (Metallurgy)

Mr Len Dean was appointed as non-executive Chairman of the Company on 30 August 2010. Mr Dean is a metallurgist with over 40 years experience in operations and marketing in the global iron ore industry.

Mr Dean spent 36 years with BHP finishing in 2000 as Vice President, Coal and Iron Ore Marketing. During his time with BHP he was General Manager, Marketing for BHP Iron Ore for 8 years and managed the iron ore mining operations at BHP’s Yampi Sound mine.

From 2003 to 2006, Mr Dean was Managing Director of Sesa Goa Limited, a specialist pig iron producer and India’s largest private sector iron ore company. During this time Sesa Goa produced approximately 9.5 Mt of iron ore, 280,000 tonnes of coke and 245,000 tonnes of high quality pig iron per annum.

More recently, Mr Dean has been an iron ore consultant with a wide client base including Orinoco Iron (Venezuela), Mitsui Iron Ore Development, CVRD (Brazil) and Mineral Enterprises Limited (India) and a Strategic Marketing Consultant for Orinoco Iron, Thiess, One Steel, BHP Minerals and Portman Mining.

Mr Dean is also a director of Western Plains Resources Limited and sits on the Robe River Joint Venture board as a Mitsui representative. He is a director of Ferrum Consultants an international iron ore consultancy specialising in marketing iron ore and specifically pig iron through their London office.

Executive Director

Tim Adams, MBA, BE (Mining), B.Sc (Medical)

Mr Adams is a highly experienced mining engineer, senior executive and consultant in the resources sector with over 24 years experience. Mr Adams has worked across the full spectrum of activities in the mining industry from exploration to corporate strategic planning, project development, mine planning and feasibility studies, operations and mergers and acquiristions and has worked with companies such as BHP, North Limited, WMC Limited, Portman Limited and Western Metals.

Since 2001, he has provided consulting advice to companies including CITIC Pacific Mining, Xtrata Limited, Grange Resources (Southdown/Kemaman magnetite project) and Onesteel and a number of junior resource companies. As well as the management of feasibility and engineering studies, Mr Adams has also undertaken high level studies, due diligences and project evaluations on resource projects both in Australia and overseas.

Executive Director and Company Secretary

John Palermo, B.Bus, FCA, FCPA, JP

Mr Palermo is a Chartered Accountant with 28 years experience in public practice.  After commencing his career as an auditor, he was the principal in a private practice from 1978 until 2006.

His main areas of expertise are corporate services and company administration with his main focus in mining and exploration and bio-technology.

Mr Palermo has extensive management, corporate and directorial experience and is also Chairman and Company Secretary of other public companies, both listed and unlisted.

Non-Executive Director

Daniel Bruno, MBA CFA

Mr Bruno has over 15 years of investment industry experience. He began his career with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and then transitioned to investment banking where most of his career was spent with GMP Securities Ltd in Toronto, Canada, as a Director in the Investment Banking group.

Mr Bruno has also worked as a Managing Director of a US-based investment bank.

Born in Uruguay and fluent in Spanish, Mr Bruno’s background and continuing relationships in South America will help Gladiator further its development initiatives in Uruguay. Mr Bruno’s expertise in cross-border transactions and international corporate finance will be extremely useful as the Company grows its corporate profile and develops its South American projects.

Non-Executive Director

Stuart Hall, B.Sc Hons, FAusIMM, FGS

Mr Hall is a qualified geologist with 40 years experience of exploration and mining projects in Australia, Africa and SE Asia. He has experience in the areas of exploration strategy, mine geology, open pit and underground mining operations, resource/reserve estimations, reconciliation, feasibility studies, mine project development and mine management.

His experience has covered a wide range of commodities including base metals, gold, iron ore, tantalum and industrial minerals. Mr Hall currently runs his own geological consultancy and is a non-executive director for three ASX listed companies.