Perth, Australia - September 2, 2014, Perth, Australia - Wildhorse Energy Limited announced that Ian Middlemas, non-executive director, has been appointed as chairman of the company.
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Mr. Middlemas acted as a senior group executive for Normandy Mining Group for 10 years and has had extensive corporate and management expertise.
He is currently a director with a number of publicly listed companies in the resources sector including Chairman of Mantra Resources Plc.
He is a Chartered Accountant.
Outgoing Chairman, Mark Hohnen, will remain on the Board as a Non-Executive Director.
Mr. Hohnen has been involved in the mineral business since the late 1970s and has held a number of directorships in both public and private companies.
He was founding Chairman of Cape Mentelle and Cloudy Bay wines, as well as the oil and coal company Anglo Pacific Resources Plc and was a director of AIM listed Kalahari Minerals Plc.
Matthew Swinney has resigned as Managing Director, and James Strauss, Brett Mitchell and Konrad Wetzker have all resigned as Non-Executive Directors of the Company.
Mr. Swinney has 20 years experience in business and project development, project finance and business start-up situations across a number of industries, including the development of greenfield energy projects in emerging markets.
Before joining the Wildhorse board, he specialised in strategic business planning and private equity raisings, working with numerous businesses focussing on project and business development.
Mr. Strauss has worked for 25 years as a stockbroker in The City of London, specialising in the corporate resource arena.
Having left BMO Capital Markets as Managing Director of UK, he is currently a Director of mining finance boutique, Strauss Partners.
Mr. Strauss has raised in excess of $1bn in recent years for projects spanning the globe in both the energy and mineral world from leading institutions in North America, Australia and Europe.
He has been a committee member of the Association of Mining Analysts for the last four years.
Dr. Wetzker has a Doctorate in Economics and is an expert on the Central and Eastern European energy market, both commercially and politically, having worked with multiple international companies in the region including E.ON, RWE, GDF/Suez, EDF Energy and the Hungarian Regulator.
Dr. Wetzker worked with the leading international management consultancy, The Boston Consulting Group, for almost 20 years prior to his retirement at the end of 2010 and was instrumental in shaping Central Europe’s energy industry.
Mr. Mitchell has worked for both private and publicly listed entities for the past 18 years as a corporate finance executive.
He is currently executive director and company secretary of Transerv Energy Limited, non-executive director of Quest Petroleum NL, XState Resources Limited and Newland Resources Limited.
Mr. Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia and has specific experience in the financial markets and resources sectors and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (ACID).
Mark Pearce has joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director.
Mr. Pearce is a Chartered Accountant and is currently a Director of several listed companies that operate in the resources sector including ASX listed Prairie Mining Limited.
He has had considerable experience in the formation and development of listed resource companies. ■