Cameron McRae was appointed Chairman of the Board in August 2018.
Cameron is a seasoned director, CEO and mining executive, having led the full development cycle in four countries and across three continents.
Cameron served a 28-year career with Rio Tinto, and in Mongolia was President of Oyu Tolgoi LLC and Rio Tinto’s country director (2010-13). In that role he led the construction and start-up of the then US$6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper gold mine, located in the Southern Gobi, ahead of schedule, which at peak of construction had over 15,000 people employed on site. Mr. McRae was responsible for all aspects of the project including safety, strategy, construction, operations, growth initiatives and chair of the technical committee.
Cameron has led successful greenfield and brownfield construction projects, overarching business transformations and business improvement projects. At the corporate level, he has deep commercial/M&A experience and sat on a number of exploration and technical committees, including Oyu Tolgoi. Prior to Oyu Tolgoi, Cameron was CEO of Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa, Managing Director of Murowa Diamonds in Zimbabwe and Project Director for the Hail Creek Coking Coal Expansion project in Australia. Prior to 2004, Cameron held commercial and project leadership roles, both at Corporate and Business Unit level. In 1995, he was a key team member responsible for the A$29 billion merger of CRA and RTZ into the dual listed Rio Tinto (which was the world’s largest merger at the time).
Cameron was granted an Executive MBA from Monash University.
John Holliday has 45 years’ experience in metals exploration including with BHP Minerals and Newcrest Mining where he rose to the positions of Chief Geoscientist and General Manager, Property Generation. More recently John has been a consultant and junior company director. Mr. Holliday was a consultant geologist to Kincora from mid-2015 becoming chairman of the then newly formed Technical Committee in November 2016 before joining the board in January 2017.
John was a principal originator, discoverer and site manager for the Tier 1 Cadia gold-copper porphyry and the Marsden copper gold porphyry deposits in the Macquarie Arc of the Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW. He was also a principal geological advisor for Newcrest on the acquisition of significant projects including Cadia, Namosi Fiji and Wafi-Golpu, PNG. Mr Holliday has a track record of success in global gold copper deposit exploration, discovery and evaluation, and is based near Orange, NSW in the Macquarie Arc.
John has a geophysics and geology honours degree from Macquarie University and economics/politics degree from Sydney University. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Society of Economic Geology, and is a Qualified Person for the purpose of NI 43-101 and a Competent Person for the purpose of JORC compliance.
Ray Nadarajah was appointed director in May 2018. Ray is a seasoned finance executive and investor with extensive experience in the infrastructure and natural resources sector in both developed and emerging markets, including in both Australia and Mongolia.
Ray is currently a principal with Global Infrastructure Partners based in Hong Kong, and formerly managing director of TPG Capital, both responsible for infrastructure investments across emerging markets.
Ray worked at Rio Tinto where he held a number of senior strategic and commercial roles, including Head of the Office of the CEO, General Manager of Corporate Development, Director of Business Development for China and Head of Business Development for Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia.
Ray began his career as an investment banker across Sydney, Hong Kong and Beijing with Citi and Goldman Sachs where he advised on M&A and capital market transactions worth over $20 billion across the natural resources, infrastructure, diversified industrials and telecom sectors.
Ray holds a double degree in actuarial studies and finance from the Australian National University and has undertaken executive education from the Harvard Business School. He has worked in over 25 countries, is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Tok Pisin, and is a non-executive director of New Frontier Exploration.
Prior to Kincora, Sam was recognised as one of the leading European Metals and Mining research analysts, having won the Association of Mining Analysts (UK) Equity Mining Analyst of the Year, with multi-disciplinary financial service sector experience, including with the Goldman Sachs Group and Ocean Equities Ltd.
Sam is a CFA Charterholder and a Chartered Accountant (ICAA), and earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Melbourne.
Luke holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering from the University of NSW and a Masters in Applied Finance from the University of Newcastle. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of the Mine Managers Association of Australia, and contributes to the development of emerging leaders by acting as an examiner of candidates for the qualification of Open Cut Mining Engineering Manager in NSW.
Luke is currently Chief Operating Officer of The Bloomfield Group which is a privately owned group of Australian mining and engineering companies. He is responsible for safe, efficient, low cost production from two open cut coal mines and an engineering, machining and fabrication business and the on-time, on- budget delivery of group capital projects.
