People: Morning Star Gold NL (MCO.AX)


MCO.AX on Australia Stock Exchange

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7 Jun 2012
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Nicholas Garling

 2011 Executive Chairman of the Board, Acting Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director

Michael Botting

 48 2011 Chief Executive Officer

Peter Jackson

 2008 Non-Executive Director

Alexei Motlokhov

 2011 Non-Executive Director

Zhaoquin Zeng

 2011 Non-Executive Director

Noel Laidlaw

 2011 Non-Executive Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Nicholas Garling

 Mr. Nicholas (Nick) Mark Garling is the Executive Chairman of the Board, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Morning Star Gold NL since July 4, 2011. He was Chief Executive Officer from March 20, 2007 to July 2, 2011, and was appointed as Executive Director on March 20, 2007. Nick Garling worked in banking and broking for 21 years in areas concerning equity capital raising, asset disposal, structured derivatives and listed markets sales & trading. He worked with a Sydney legal practice Barraket Kemp & Strang for four years and studied law at Sydney Uni part-time. Following this, Nick changed direction and moved into the financial markets field working in Sydney for Fay Richwhite & FIMAT Societe Generale. He spent 10 years in the 90s/00s in Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong SAR, China with UBS Warburg & Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director of UBS's Equity Markets Group and before that a Managing Director of Lehman's Asia-Pacific Equity business. Nick is a substantial shareholder in Morning Star Gold and works in their Sydney office with regular visits to the mining tenements in and around Woods Point.

Michael Botting

 Mr. Michael (Mike) David Botting is Chief Executive Officer of Morning Star Gold NL since July 4, 2011. Mike is a mining engineer with over 25 years'relevant experience to the role envisaged at Morning Star. MCO's appointment of Mike as CEO is aimed at the company's transition into gold production. Mike has held senior in-house positions and consulted in senior roles on gold projects in Australia with considerable parallels to the challenges at Morning Star. His work has been for WMC Resources, Bendigo Mining, Central Norseman, Beaconsfield, BHP Billiton, Newmont and Barrick. Mike is based in Melbourne and at the company's eastern Victorian project area.

Peter Jackson

 Dr. Peter Gilbert Jackson, Ph.D., serves as Non-Executive Director of Morning Star Gold NL since March 10, 2008. Dr Jackson has been the Director of Exploration and Geology for Morning Star for five years and a Board participant since early 2008. He has over 20 years of practical & technical experience in the Woods Point Dyke Swarm (the local geology surrounding Morning Star's eastern Victorian mining & exploration tenements). Peter lectured at Melbourne's La Trobe University for many years in economic geology and has co-authored scientific texts on the area of MCO's tenements, conducted scores of economic studies into the historic gold mines of eastern Victorian. Peter has experience in the Walhalla-Woods Point syncline, where MCO's tenements lie. Peter lived for many years on/off at Australia's Antarctic post and is based in Melbourne, spending working weeks in Woods Point at the Morning Star mine site.

Alexei Motlokhov

 Dr. Alexei V. Motlokhov serves as Non-Executive Director of Morning Star Gold NL since February 1, 2011. He is based in London and represents the interests of substantial shareholder Chillee Ltd which holds a tad more than 35 Million shares in Morning Star Gold common stock or around 12.3% of the issued capital. This holding was initiated via a $15M investment via placement in late 2010 and has since been added to on market. Alexei Motlokhov works in London for Latymer Management as their Finance Director. He has experience in strategic and corporate finance consulting. Prior to joining Latymer Management, Alexei worked for Oxera Consulting in various roles over a number of years. His work included provision of strategic advice on corporate restructuring, valuation of intangible assets and valuation of damages in the context of commercial litigation. Alexei also has experience in an advisory capacity on asset valuations as part of global commercial equity financing transactions.

Zhaoquin Zeng

 Mr. Zhaoquin Zeng serves as Non-Executive Director of Morning Star Gold NL since February 1, 2011. Mr Zeng is the Chairman of Shandong Tianye Group (a publicly listed company on Shanghai), which presently holds 28M shares of MCO (9.9% of issued capital) and has a $4.5M regional joint venture with MCO on two of its five mining titles in the Woods Point regional program. Zhaoqin Zeng holds an MBA from Nankai University. He established Shandong Tianye Real Estate Development Ltd in 1997 and was appointed Chairman at that time. In November 2006, he started what is effectively the "diversity development" of the Shandong Tianye Group, growing the corporation's business aggressively in size and scope. His entrepreneurial approach has seen Shandong Tianye Group grow strongly to be one of the privately run corporations in Shandong Province (China's second province by GDP). Mr Zeng has won national and provincial awards for his works in China. STG has interests in real estate, mining, energy and financial services. He is regularly in Australia with offices in Perth and Jinan. He will be a direct contributor to MCO and STG's joint venture interests and a valued board member bringing great skill to MCO around his experience of growing small business enterprises into substantial entities with his energy, drive, ideas and his contacts in China. Mr Zeng is based in Jinan, Shandong Province, China.

Noel Laidlaw

 Mr. Noel Robert Laidlaw is Non-Executive Independent Director of Morning Star Gold NL with effect from July 1, 2011. He holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering. Noel Laidlaw is a mining engineer with over30 years of experience in narrow vein underground mining and also with relevant experience in gold processing operations and metallurgy. Noel was the State Mining Warden of Victoria for 10 years and in that role was the most senior independent statutory officer appointed by the State Government to oversee mining disputes and regulatory issues in Victoria and to assist the Minister and entities involved in mining in Victoria in administering the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act, 1990. Noel has experience relevant to MCO's growing projects in eastern Victoria in areas including project management and facilitation, stakeholder/tenements negotiation, knowledge of the MR(SD)A 1990 and the accompanying regulatory framework, project compliance, cost estimation of underground and open-cut mining operations and associated treatment plants, mine planning, budget preparation and cost control within mining operations and a experienced player in occupational health and safety vis a vis mining & exploration projects. Noel is based in Maryborough, Victoria-an area which was at one time the epicentre of world gold output.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Nicholas Garling

 294,330

Michael Botting

 --

Peter Jackson

 --

Alexei Motlokhov

 --

Zhaoquin Zeng

 --

Noel Laidlaw

 --
As Of 29 Jun 2011

Options Compensation

Name Options Value

Nicholas Garling

 0 0

Michael Botting

 0 0

Peter Jackson

 0 0

Alexei Motlokhov

 0 0

Zhaoquin Zeng

 0 0

Noel Laidlaw

 0 0

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