Directors & Management

Bill Moss is an Australian businessman and philanthropist with expertise in real estate, banking, funds and asset management.

Bill Moss’ career in finance and banking spans 35 years, with 22 years spent with the pre-eminent Australian investment bank, Macquarie Group. During this time, he founded, grew and led the Banking and Property Group to a point where it managed in excess of $23 billion worth of real estate assets across the world.

During his career, Bill Moss was instrumental in leading many of the businesses he managed into new markets such as Europe, the United States of America and Asia – developing strong relationships and networks with governments and business leaders throughout this time.

Bill Moss is a member of the ASIC External Advisory Panel, Chairman of Moss Capital and the FSHD Global Research Foundation.

Bill Moss regularly features in the Australian media, providing comment on the finance and banking sectors, the global economy, and the ongoing need for Australia to do more to advance the interests of the country's disabled and disadvantaged.

In 2006, Bill was awarded one of Australia's highest honours, the Order of Australia (AM), for services to the banking, charity, and finance sectors.

Mr Tudor was most recently the Managing Director of Noble Resources Australia, responsible for Noble’s operations and investments in Australia. He was also Senior Vice President – Strategy for the Energy Coal & Carbon Complex division of the Noble Group.

Prior to this, Mr Tudor was CEO and Managing Director of Gloucester Coal Ltd, an ASX-listed coal producer with operations in NSW and Queensland. During his time as CEO the market value of the company increased more than 300% to more than 1.8 billion dollars and Mr Tudor was named as a “top 100 value creator” in 2007 for his role in the executive leadership of Gloucester Coal.

Mr Tudor has extensive experience in a variety of senior leadership roles in Australian and International coal mining. He has led significant acquisitions, capital raisings and mining expansions, and has demonstrated his ability to formulate strategic vision and advance expansion plans with proven value creation.

Before his retirement from diplomatic service, Mr Edward Lee Kwong Foo had a distinguished career with the Foreign Service Branch of the Singapore Administrative Service in various senior positions across the Asia-Pacific, including as Singapore’s Ambassador to Indonesia.

Since his first posting to Indonesia in 1974, Mr Lee served a total of 18 years in the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta. Among his many honours received, in 2007 he was conferred the highest civilian award by the Indonesian Government, the Bintang Jasa Utama (the Star of Excellent Services) for his contribution towards building stronger and closer relations with Indonesia. Mr Lee currently serves on a number of listed company boards, is the Chief Executive of investment consultancy firm PT Ekalimintas, and a member of the National University of Singapore President's Philanthropic Advisory Council.

Mr Soekarno is a grandson of first President of Indonesia Soekarno and a nephew of fifth President of Indonesia Megawati Soekarno. Since the mid-1990s, he has had a successful business career in Indonesia where he continues to be involved with a number of private and public sector interests, including the Nasional Demokrat Cultural Department and the Party Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan. He is currently President Director of 1945 Nuswantara Investama.

Mr Hartwig is a Certified Practicing Accountant and Chartered Company Secretary and holds a Bachelor of Business degree, majoring in Accounting and Taxation from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia.

He is involved in the areas of Initial Public Offerings, capital raisings, prospectus and information memorandum preparation and project management, company assessments and due diligence reviews, mergers and acquisitions and providing general corporate advice. He has over fifteen years experience in the finance industry both nationally and internationally with exposure to both the debt and equity capital markets. Mr Hartwig is also a director of Uran Limited and the Company Secretary of Anteo Diagnostics Limited, GLG Corporation Limited and Forge Resources Limited.

Mr Whitton is a Chartered Accountant with in excess of 25 years of corporate re-organisation, financial analysis, strategic planning, people management and risk management experience. He is a Non-Executive Director of several ASX listed companies, with involvement in audit risk and corporate governance.

Mr Whitton currently serves as head of Business Recovery at William Buck, Chartered Accountants & Advisors. He is Non-Executive Chairman RKS Consolidated Limited, AUV Enterprises Limited, Tempo Australia Limited, and a Non-Executive Director of Australian Wine Consumers Co-Operative Ltd (Chairman 2008-2011).

He has a Bachelor of Business and Graduate Certificate Forensic Studies (Accounting) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts, the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia and the Association of Fraud Examiners.

Mr Dykes has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, beginning his career as a founding member of KPMG’s technology advisory practice in both Sydney and Melbourne. He subsequently co-founded a boutique technology advisory business and advised some of Australia’s largest corporate clients including BHP, Boral, Telstra and General Motors Holden.

Mr Dykes was an Executive Director, CFO and Company Secretary of Nexbis Ltd and played a key role during its rise from a market capitalisation of $4 million dollars until its successful sale for $80 million.

He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Tempo Australia Limited, Chapmans Limited, and AUV Enterprises Limited.

Mr Dykes holds a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) degree from RMIT University and is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.

Mr Kovago has extensive experience as an exploration geologist, in Indonesia, Australia and Mongolia. He has spent the last 13 years of his career in Indonesia, and is currently based in Kalimantan.

Over the past 31 years, Mr Kovago has worked for a wide variety of leading coal companies including South Gobi (Ivanhoe), Oxbow Coal BV, BHP Billiton Indonesia, PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), Macarthur Coal, Peabody as a consultant and Rio Tinto. He has extensive exploration experience in Indonesia, where he has overseen numerous exploration programs in Kalimantan and Sumatra, including technical due diligence, resource modelling and the issuance of JORC compliant statements as a “Competent Person”.

He holds a Master of Science Degree in Geology, a Graduate Diploma in Mining Engineering, and a Graduate Diploma in Coal Geology. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy since 1981.

Rob has a broad transactional knowledge of commercial and financial transactions in the resources and energy sectors gained from over a decade of experience working for some of Europe and Australia’s leading corporate finance and private equity boutiques.

Over the past five years in Australia, Rob has been involved in several successful project financings in the energy sector and has acted in an advisory role for some of the country’s most successful companies in relation to the development of coal and other mineral resources projects.

Rob holds a number of international business and management related qualifications including a Master’s in Management (EMIM) from ESCP-EAP (Paris), a Diplôme de Grande Ecole (France), Diplomkaufmann (Germany), European Msc. in Management (UK) and a BA (Mod.) in Business and Economics (Ireland).