AuKing Mining Ltd (ASX:AKN) has appointed experienced industry executive Anna Nahajski-Staples as its new independent non-executive chair.
Nahajski-Staples is an investment banker, public company director and manager, with nearly 30 years of experience (15 years in mining) representing more than half a billion dollars in global transactions.
She will succeed Dr Mark Elliott who will retire on October 1, 2022, to focus on his other business interests.
Notable experience
Currently based in Perth, Nahajski-Staples is the executive director of Paloma Investments and the founding director of copper-gold explorer Larvotto Resources and Nevada-focused Moneghetti Minerals (proposed IPO in 2023).
The company says that her broad international capital markets experience, high-performance work ethic and ‘big picture’ thinking will be beneficial to the development of its flagship Koongie Park Copper-Zinc Project in Western Australia’s Halls Creek area.
She was also a founding director of New Zealand-focused gold explorer Siren Gold.
Nahajski-Staples said, “I look forward to working with Paul [Williams], the board and management team to support the company’s growth strategies and value creation for shareholders as an emerging Western Australian-focused exploration and development company.”
Outgoing chairman
Outgoing chairman Dr Mark Elliott served as a proposed director in early 2020, when AuKing’s shares were suspended from official quotation, before assuming the role of director/chairman upon the company’s re-listing on the ASX in June 2021.
He was instrumental in enabling the company to satisfy the re-listing requirements of the ASX and provided a pivotal role in developing the corporate governance and technical capacities of the current board and senior management team.