Meet The Team

Get To Know The Team

Kingsley Allen

​Kingsley Allen has over fifteen years’ experience in the mining industry, including operating a successful medium-scale alluvial gold mine in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and working alongside government bodies developing and implementing community-based mining projects in Papua New Guinea. He also has twenty-five years active experience in company administration and capital raising via investment syndicates, investment trusts, corporate floats, reverse mergers and acquisitions, share and bond issues and superannuation. Professionally, he studied valuation and has completed numerous small- to medium-scale property development projects specialising in subdivisions, involving complex town-planning law. He is a passionate about gold mining production and has a proven track record of seeing projects through to completion. Kingsley has a special personal interest in providing his time and expertise to contribute in the development of projects that benefit disadvantaged sections of communities in Australia and overseas.

Louis Van Der Merwe is a distinguished mining executive with decades of international experience leading large-scale resource projects across operations, regulation, and strategic consulting. Based in Australia and originally from South Africa, Louis has held senior leadership roles with Tier One mining companies, where he successfully managed major shaft design and construction programs in collaboration with EPCM partners. As a former Inspector of Mines with the Queensland Government and founder of a specialist consulting firm established in 2003, Louis brings deep regulatory insight and commercial acumen to every project. His expertise spans mine development planning, shaft sinking, tunnelling, and cost optimisation, supporting clients in achieving sustainable growth and operational excellence. Most recently, Louis provided strategic assessments for Great Eastern Gold, reinforcing the company’s potential to build a multi-billion-dollar mining enterprise and attract long-term investment.. 

Louis Van Der Merwe
Adam Todd

Adam Todd is an experienced geologist with a strong background in underground mining, resource interpretation, and JORC-compliant geological practices. He began his career with Northern Star Resources, where he gained hands-on exposure to all facets of mine site operations through their graduate program. He has since worked with major producers like Gold Fields Limited, advancing his expertise in production geology, stope design, and block modelling. Adam has led teams underground, managed drill rigs, and made real-time geological decisions to optimise ore definition. He is proficient in Datamine, Leapfrog, and Acquire, integrating technical data to support effective mine planning and grade control. His work reflects a practical, operations-focused approach grounded in both geological knowledge and on-site leadership.

​Marcus Grubb, former Director of the World Gold Council, is a senior leader in gold, finance, capital markets and digital with a 30-year track record. At the WGC and the World Platinum Investment Council he led investment and product strategy—co-managing the US$60bn SPDR GLD ETF, BullionVault, and gold investment programs in China and India. He later served as Global Head of Product at State Street Digital, setting global product strategy and delivery, and previously was CEO of BlockEx, a digital asset exchange/custody platform. Earlier, he founded Swapstream—an interest-rate derivatives exchange sold to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange—held board-level and leadership roles at Rabobank (Global Equities) and BGB (head of equity derivatives), led investment-strategy research at Swiss Bank Corporation, Salomon Brothers and UBS, and began his career at JPMorgan in Eurobonds, swaps and equities. He holds a B.A. in Modern History and Economics from Oxford University.

Marcus Grubb

Ezra spent over twenty years in a major Wall Street firm in trading, sales and as Managing Director in the Capital Markets Division. He subsequently performed various consultancy roles for international companies.

 

 

Ezra Hakkak
Ian Hodkingson

Ian Hodkinson is a senior geologist and mining executive with 40+ years’ experience spanning exploration, development and operations across Australia and Africa. A first-class dual Honours graduate in Geology & Geography from London University with an MSc in Mineral Exploration & Mining Geology (Leicester), he began in large copper–nickel mines in Botswana before holding senior roles at Mt Leyshon (Au–Ag), Eloise (Cu) and Mungana/King Vol (Zn–Pb–Cu–Au) in Queensland, and building deep narrow-vein gold expertise at Hadleigh Castle in Charters Towers. He has managed multi-million-dollar exploration programs, consulted independently, and co-authored papers in mineralogy and economic geology. A Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and Registered Professional Geoscientist, Ian is a JORC Competent Person across precious and base metals, uranium, rare earths, tin and tungsten. An early adopter of innovative methods—including biogeochemical sampling of spinifex in the Tanami—he brings proven technical leadership and modern narrow-vein mining know-how to advance Great Eastern Gold’s operations.

Brian Hemsworth

Brian Hemsworth is a seasoned mining entrepreneur and engineer whose four-decade career spans design engineering, heavy-equipment manufacturing, shaft systems and underground mining solutions. A Sydney Technical College graduate, he founded Australian Winch & Haulage (1974) and built it into a leading provider of winches, winders and heavy-engineering services to the mining, marine and construction sectors. He later launched Geocast Constructions (1997), creator of a patented laser-guided vertical excavation system, and Mine & Tunnel Constructions (2001), which supplies custom underground equipment and flexible leasing/finance packages. Known for astute capital moves, such as acquiring and recommissioning one of Australia’s largest lathes, Brian consistently expands capability to meet complex mining requirements. His teams of mechanical, electrical and design specialists deliver design, manufacture, commissioning and maintenance to rigorous safety and QA standards. He continues to identify new opportunities and partner with operators, including Great Eastern Gold, to solve technical challenges and enable production growth.

Larry Jeddeloh

Larry founded TIS Group in 1995. Previously, he held the position of Chief Investment Officer of Resource Capital Advisers. Prior to joining Resource, he was with the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zürich, where he was a Vice-Director and the Chief Investment Strategist in the Institutional Global Asset Management Group. In the 1980s, he was Director of Equity Research at the Leuthold Group, a well-known institutional research firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for seven years. He was also a partner of Leuthold and Anderson Investment Management Counselling and Weeden & Company, an institutional brokerage firm.  He is one of America’s best respected independent investment management professionals and regularly appears on Bloomberg and other TV business news channels.