Directors & Management
Phillip Golding
Non Executive Chairman
Mr Golding is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years’ experience in corporate and business tax consulting, including consulting for the exploration and mining sector. He has experience as a public company director and is a former Chairman of Giralia Resources NL.
Mr Golding is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.
Mr Golding is a member of the Audit Committee.
Mike Fewster
Executive Director
Mr Fewster is a geologist with thirty years’ experience. The first seven years were with the Griffin Coal Mining Company, engaged in exploration, development and mining activities.
Mr Fewster then spent the following twenty years managing a private geological research and exploration company, which focused on exploring for a variety of sediment-hosted energy and mineral commodities, mostly in the Gunbarrel and Eucla Basins of Western Australia. He also provided high-level geological consulting services to a small number of client companies including an established Australian uranium producer. Consequently Mr Fewster has exceptional experience in the geology and origin of mineral deposits in the main areas where EMA operates, for supergene uranium and other mineral deposits in general elsewhere in Australia, and the most efficient methods for the exploration and development of these types of mineral deposits.
Mr Fewster is a Member of both the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Geological Society of Australia. He provides technical advice to a small number of clients, which include an established Australian uranium producer.
Stephen Penrose
Non Executive Director
Mr Penrose is a partner with law firm Tottle Partners in Perth. He acts for a number of Western Australian mining companies as well as for major industrial companies and private clients. He is experienced in takeovers litigation and matters before the Takeovers Panel and appears as Counsel in relation to commercial and corporate matters.
Mr Penrose was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1992 and practiced at Clayton Utz (Perth) until joining Tottle Partners in 1996.
Mr Penrose is Chairman of the Audit Committee.