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STREAMPLAY STUDIO LIMITED Board/Management Information 2007
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207 Stirling Highway Claremont WA 6010 Australia $t : +61893406000$ $f$ : +618 9340 6060 PO Box 352 Nedlands WA 6909 Australia e : [email protected]
2007-05-08
APPOINTMENT OF LONDON-BASED DIRECTOR
Gippsland Limited (ASX & AIM: "GIP") ("Gippsland" or the Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Jon Starink, aged 56, to the Company's Board of Directors. effective today.
Mr Starink's qualifications include Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours (University of Sydney), a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with First Class Honours (University of Sydney) and a Master of Applied Science (University of Sydney).
His academic achievements include; Union Carbide Prize in Inorganic Chemistry, Western Mining Prize in Chemical Engineering and Beckman Coulter Postgraduate Prize for Best Overall Performance in Molecular Biotechnology. He held the position of Deputy Head Department of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University of Technology during 1984-85 & 1987.
Based in London, Jon Starink is a Chartered Professional Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Industrial Chemist, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Member of The Metallurgical Society and a Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
His corporate experience encompasses, inter alia, board level corporate governance; executive corporate management and administration; corporate finance & strategic business development; technical and financial project audit & evaluation; introductions to capital markets and investment risk management.
He has 30 years experience in the mining industry in the role of both executive and non-executive director. His extensive practical and operational experience includes engineering design and project management; mining exploration management; science and engineering research & development and process innovation & development.
Of particular relevance, for ten years he served in senior technical and engineering roles with the Sons of Gwalia Ltd Greenbushes tantalum-tin project where he was directly responsible for process development, project design and construction management for the tin smelter and tantalum extraction projects.
Gippsland Executive Chairman Mr Jack Telford stated "I take this opportunity to welcome Jon to the Gippsland Board. I am very confident that his technical and corporate experience will make an important contribution to the rapid growth and development of the Company. In particular his solid understanding of the tantalum extractive and processing industry will be of considerable benefit in bringing the 40 million tonne Abu Dabbab tantalum-tin project into production."
During the past 5 years Mr Starink, who presently holds no interest in the ordinary share capital of Gippsland, has held the following positions acting in the capacity of a director:
CURRENT DIRECTORSHIPS Australian Bioscience & Technology Investments Pty Ltd Camelot Trust Chemical & Extractive Metallurgical Engineering Pty Ltd Jadion Limited Jumbo Corporation Limited Lazarus Foundation Ptv Ltd Mining Management Services Pty Ltd Moondarra Pty Ltd Westdata Pty Ltd Zutphen Ptv Ltd
PREVIOUS DIRECTORSHIPS HELD DURING PAST FIVE YEARS Peninsular Gold Limited Biomolecular Technologies Limited
In compliance with Schedule 2(g) of the LSE-AIM Rules, the Company advises that at the age of 23 years he changed his name from Jan Schut to Jon Starink (for family reasons). No other information is required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2(q) of the LSE-AIM Rules.
RJ (Jack) Telford Executive Chairman
For further information please contact:
Jack Telford Gippsland Limited www.gippslandltd.com Tel: +61 (0)8 9340 6000 [email protected]
Laurence Read / Ed Portman Conduit PR Tel: +44 (0)20 7429 6605 / 6607 [email protected] [email protected]
Les Polden / Luke Cairns Hoodless Brennan Plc Tel: +44 (0)20 7538 1166 [email protected] [email protected]
Fiona Owen Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 5100 [email protected]