Mission statement:
"To build a sustainable, profitable and efficient mining and mineral processing company, with emphasis on mineral products required for the international steel industry and in the process to engage in ethical, and environmentally and socially responsible, methods."

Tony Grey graduated with a BA in History (Hons) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto. Thereafter, he practised law with a major law firm in Toronto for seven years. He emigrated to Australia in 1972 and founded Pancontinental Mining and built it into a publicly listed major diversified mining house with interests in gold, base metals, coal, industrial minerals and uranium. He left Pancontinental Mining in 1992 and became a Director of National Mutual Royal Bank and served as Director until 1996.  Also in 1992, Tony financed and became Executive Chairman of Polartechnics Ltd, an Australian Stock Exchange listed biomedical company developing a revolutionary Australian invention of an optoelectronic means of diagnosing precancer cells and cancer. The technology received several Australian Government science awards.  Tony retired from Polartechnics in 2003.  Thereafter, Tony was appointed as Chairman of Kingsgate Consolidated, a gold mining company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. He held this role for four years. Tony also serves on the board of International Potash Limited, a Canadian potash producer, as a non-executive director and as a director of Mega Uranium Limited.  Tony has written three books and numerous articles about the mining industry.

Stephen Turner, founder of IFM, has over 20 years experience in financial markets and for the last 15 years has specialised in the natural resources sector. Stephen has delivered resource projects in Australia, Southern Africa, Fiji, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands. He was a founding director of the Australian subsidiary of PSG Investment Group, then South Africa’s sixth largest investment bank. He has an extensive network of business contacts and has raised equity capital in Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the USA. Stephen is an Australian Chartered Accountant.

Chris is a mechanical engineer who joined International Ferro Metals Limited from BHP Billiton, where he was General Manager of its Metalloys division, one of the largest producers of manganese alloys in the world since 2008. Based in South Africa, Metalloys operates an eight submerged arc furnace ferromanganese and silicomanganese plant including a pelletising plant, metal recovery plant, briquetting plant and electrical power co-generation plant. His role encompassed all operations, human resources, finance and administration, safety, health, environment and community, capital investment and projects. Prior to managing Metalloys, Chris was General Manager of Kermas' Tubatse Chrome plant (previously BHP Billiton's Samancor Chrome) until 2007. His role included the management of a six submerged arc furnaces ferrochrome plant including pelletising, sintering and chrome recovery producing 400,000 tonnes per annum of ferrocrome. He worked at Samancor Chrome for eight years. Chris holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Stephen Oke holds a BSc Honours degree in Geology from the University of Southampton and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business. He has over 30 years experience in the mining and metals industry of which some 12 years was spent in various operational management positions for the National Coal Board, Anglovaal Ltd, BPCoal and Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co Ltd. Subsequently he has held senior positions in the investment banking industry for Smith New Court, Merrill Lynch, NM Rothschild and Sons and Standard Bank, specializing in the metals and mining sector, where he advised on a number of transactions and equity capital fund raisings worldwide. Mr Oke is currently Chairman of African Mining and Exploration Plc and a director of Shaft Sinkers Holdings Plc.

Terry holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) Honours and a BA degree from the University of Queensland, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.  He has, since 1973, been the principal of consulting mining engineers, Terence Willsteed & Associates. His forty year career in the mining industry has included senior line operational and engineering positions with Zinc Corporation, Mt Isa Mines Ltd and Consolidated Goldfields Ltd. Other public directorships include Citigold Corporation Limited and Goldsearch Limited. In his consulting experience, Terry has been involved in the assessment and development of a wide range of mineral, coal and oil shale projects, and has participated in the management of developing and operating mineral projects both in Australia and internationally.

Tian received a Bachelor of Industrial Accounting degree in 1992 from the East China University of Metallurgy. In the same year she joined JISCO as an accountant. She became a Certified Public Accountant of China in 1996 and received an EMBA Degree in 2000 from Xi’an University of Science & Technology. She was appointed the Director of Financial Department of JISCO Group and was promoted to the position of Associate General Accountant in 2005. Tian was appointed the Chief Financial Officer of JISCO Group in 2008.

Xiaoping holds a masters degree from the Beijing University of Science & Technology. He joined Sinosteel Co as a Project Manager and became Branch General Manager in 1994. He moved to South Africa in 1998 where he undertook the role of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ASA Metals (Pty) Ltd, a South African chrome mining and smelter business. Xiaoping joined JISCO as Assistant President in July 2002.

John has extensive experience across a wide range of industries as both a senior executive and a Non-Executive Director. He was previously Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Southcorp Limited, Managing Director Asia Pacific, United Biscuits Limited and Managing Director Snack Foods, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited, a Director of Woolworths Limited and Email Limited, Chairman of Wattyl Limited, a Director of CSR Limited and subsequently Rinker Limited and a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House Trust. Mr Ballard is currently a Director of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, a Director of Magellan Flagship Fund Limited, Chairman of the Advisory Funds at Pacific Equity Partners and a Director of the Sydney Neuro Oncology Group. John is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds an MBA from Columbia University, New York.

Jannie obtained his Bachelor in Accounting honours degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 1994. After completing his articles with Deloitte & Touche, and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1997, he spent two years in London working for three international investment banks where he gained extensive experience in financial instruments and international financial markets. Upon returning to South Africa he worked as a treasury manager for the Old Mutual group for four years during which time he qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst. Thereafter he worked for ABSA Bank for two years as investment specialist. He joined IFM in 2007 as Group Financial Manager and was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2009.  Jannie has since been appointed to the Board of Directors as Finance Director effective 18 March 2010.