Legend International Holdings, Inc's Profile

Management & Directors

• Board of Directors

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• Mr Joseph Gutnick

  President and Chief Executive Officer

  Mr Gutnick is a leading mining industry entrepreneur. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of a number of listed public companies in the mining and exploration sector in both Australia and North America. Mr. Gutnick was responsible for overseeing the discovery, development and operation of the world class Plutonic, Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines in Australia. Mr Gutnick is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Member of the Institute of Company Directors in Australia, and was a Director of the World Gold Council. Mr Gutnick was awarded the prestigious Diggers award at the 1997 Diggers and Dealers Industry Awards.

• Dr U.S Awasthi

  Non-Executive Director

  Dr. Awasthi has been the Managing Director of IFFCO since February 1993, the largest producer and seller of fertilisers in India. After graduating in Chemical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University, Dr. Awasthi started his career with Shriram Chemical Industries, Kota in 1967. In 1971, he joined Zuari Agro-Chemicals Ltd., Goa. During 1976-86, he worked in various pivotal positions in IFFCO & KRIBHCO and acquired all-round expertise in planning and execution of fertiliser plants and was closely associated with the construction of Hazira as well as Aonla Projects. In 1986, he joined Pyrites, Phosphates & Chemicals Limited (PPCL) as its Chairman and Managing Director. He also held additional charge as Chairman & Managing Director of Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd. (RCF) from April 1991 to March 1992. Dr. Awasthi was the Chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI), New Delhi, during 1994-96. He held the position of President, International Fertiliser Industry Association (IFA), Paris during 1997-99. IFA is an organisation of 457 member companies from 80 countries. Dr. Awasthi had the honour of having represented the Industry point of view at the 6th Session of United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and delivered a speech at ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York. Dr. Awasthi has over 30 papers to his credit and has co-authored a book 'Fertiliser Industry in India'.

• Mr Manish Gupta

  Non-Executive Director

  Mr Manish Gupta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1988 with a Bachelor of Technology specialising in Civil Engineering and continued his studies at the Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, India where he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Management in 1990 specialising in Development, Marketing, and then at the University of Pune, Pune, India where he gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1996 excelling in Taxation and Commercial Laws. Mr Gupta has held several positions in the Indian Government including with the Indian Taxation Office and as Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, and as an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax and Officer on Special Duty to the Revenue Secretary, Government of India. Mr. Gupta joined IFFCO in May 2004 and currently heads the strategic management team.

• Dr David S Tyrwhitt

  Non-Executive Director (Independent)

  Dr Tyrwhitt has more than 40 years experience in the mining industry. He is currently a Director of five listed public companies in the mining and exploration sector. He worked for over 20 years with Newmont Mining Corporation in Australia, South East Asia and the United States. During this time, he was responsible for the discovery of the Telfer Gold Mine in Western Australia. He was Chief Executive of Newmont Australia Limited between 1984 and 1988 and Chief Executive Officer of Ashton Mining Limited between 1988 and 1991. Ashton was the part-owner of the Argyle Diamond Mine, the world largest diamond bearing lamproite. He established his own consultancy in 1991 and worked with Normandy Mining Limited on a number of mining projects in South East Asia.

• Dr Allan Trench

  Non-Executive Director (Independent)

  Dr Allan Trench is a geologist/geophysicist and business management consultant with approximately 20 years' experience within the Australian resources sector across a number of commodity groups. Dr Trench holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours), a doctorate in Geophysics, a master of Business Administration (Distinction) from Oxford University and a Master of Science (Distinction) in Mineral Economics. He commenced his career as an academic at Oxford University in England before moving to Australia on a Royal Society Fellowship. After a period at the University of Western Australia he joined WMC as the Exploration Manager for the Leinster-Mt Keith region. Dr Trench then managed a number of exploration companies associated with Mr. Joseph Gutnick before joining McKinsey & Company as a management consultant.

  In his role at McKinsey, Dr Trench was an advisor to a number of large international resources companies on strategic, organisation and operational issues. From 2004 to 2006 Dr Trench was employed in a contract role as corporate strategist end benchmarking manager at Woodside Energy, helping to building Woodside's capability in strategy, benchmarking and performance improvement across its global asset portfolio. Dr Trench also serves as a non executive director for two other resource companies and currently holds the title of Adjunct Professor of Mineral Economics & Mine Management at the WA School of Mines, Curtain University.

• Mr Henry Herzog

  Non-Executive Director (Independent)

  Mr Henry Herzog has served in a number of various positions as President, Vice President or Director on a number of publicly listed companies in Australia and the United States, predominantly in the mining sector. Mr Herzog has restructured and reorganised several publicly listed companies including U.S. company Bayou International Limited where he served as its President and Chief Executive Office from 1986-1988 and then as a Vice President through to June, 1999.

  Mr Herzog has also occupied a variety of other management and consulting roles and has over forty years of business experience. Mr Herzog has spent the last six years managing a number of private investment entities and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of a non-profit college of higher education.