Board & Management

Board & Management

Geoff Baker

BCom, LLB, MBA

Non-Executive Chairman

Appointed as a Non-executive Director in March 2015 and Non-executive Chairman in August 2020, Mr Baker is an Australian solicitor residing and working in Hong Kong and UK and has over 30 years of experience assisting companies in conducting business in China in addition to providing advice in mining, resources and finance. Currently a Non-Executive Director of ASF Group Limited, Rey Resources Limited and ActivEX Limited. Mr Baker has also held non-executive positions with and Metaliko Resources Limited (resigned 12 January 2017).

Louis Chien

MBA, BArch, BS, AICD

Managing Director

Appointed as Managing Director in October 2021, Mr Chien is a Company Director and investor.  He is also currently a Director of ASF Group (ASX: AFA) and its subsidiary ASF Capital, Rey Resources (ASX: REY), and ActivEX (ASX: AIV).

Previous to Australia, Mr Chien had over 20 years of experience in finance and corporate new ventures for Fortune 100 companies based in the United States and Singapore and extensive international experience with managerial roles across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Min Yang

Non-executive Director

Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in January 2014, Ms Yang resides in Hong Kong and has over 21 years of experience with private and state-run businesses in China and has expertise in the identification of opportunities in resources and financial investment. Currently the Director and Chairman of ASF Group Limited and a Non-Executive Chairman of Rey Resources Limited, ActivEX Limited and Metaliko Resources Limited.

Dennis Wilkins

BBus, AICD, ACIS

Non-executive Director

Appointed as a Non-executive Director in January 2007, Mr Wilkins is an accountant who has been a Director, Company Secretary and acted in a corporate advisory capacity to listed resource companies for over 24 years.

Mr Wilkins previously served as the Finance Director and Company Secretary for a mid-tier gold producer and also spent five years working for a leading merchant bank in the United Kingdom. Resource postings to Indonesia, South Africa and New Zealand in managerial roles has broadened his international experience.

Mr Wilkins has extensive experience in capital raising, specifically for the resources industry, and is the principal of DW Corporate Pty Ltd which provides advisory, funding and administrative management services to the resource sector.

Mr Ian Gregory

BBus, FGIA, FCIS, F Fin, MAICD

Company Secretary

Appointed as Company Secretary in November 2012, Mr Gregory is a professionally well-connected Director and Company Secretary with over 30 years of experience in the provision of company secretarial, governance and business administration services with listed and unlisted companies in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, exploration, mining, mineral processing, banking and insurance.  He also has expertise which includes launching successful start-up operations through the development of the company secretarial role and board reporting processes. Mr Gregory currently consults on company secretarial and governance matters to a number of listed and unlisted companies.

Prior to founding his own consulting Company Secretarial business in 2005 Mr Gregory was the Company Secretary of Iluka Resources Limited (6 years), IBJ Australia Bank Limited Group, the Australian operations of The Industrial Bank of Japan (12 years), and the Griffin Coal Mining Group of companies (4 years).

Mr Gregory is a past member and Chairman of the Western Australian Branch Council of Governance Institute of Australia (GIA) and has also served on the National Council of GIA.