WHO WE ARE

OUR LEADERSHIP

Our Board and senior leadership brings diverse skillset and a commitment to operational excellence, ensuring we have the perspectives and experience needed to deliver on our strategy.

Meteoric Resources has a strong and dynamic leadership team driving its vision to be a global leader in rare earths production. Our Board brings together talented people with deep technical knowledge and experience in financing, constructing and operating resources projects in different regions across the world.

Executive Team

Dr Andrew Tunks

Executive Chairman

Mr Stuart Gale

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Dr Marcelo De Carvalho

Executive Director and Chief Geologist

Mr Andy Thomson

Chief Financial Officer

Dr Paul Kitto

Non-Executive Technical Director

Mr Peter Gundy

Non-Executive Director

Dr Nomi Prins

Non-Executive Director

Mr Matthew Foy

Company Secretary

Senior Leadership Team

Peter Sheehan

Chief Operating Officer

Cathal Smith

General Counsel

Eder Santo

Environmental Director

Jose Alberto Dambrosio

Group HR Director

Luiz Noronha

Legal Director

Tony Hadley

Metallurgical Manager

Nick Bennett

General Manager Projects

Mario Maia

Health & Safety Director

I am excited to lead the company through this transformative phase, leveraging my experience to unlock significant value for our shareholders and contribute to the global rare earths supply chain.

Mr Stuart Gale - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
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Dr Andrew Tunks

Executive Chairman

Dr Tunks is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientist holding a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Monash and a Ph.D from the University of Tasmania. Dr Tunks has held numerous senior executive positions in a range of small to large resource companies including Auroch Minerals, A-Cap Resources, IMAGOLD Corporation and Abosso Goldfields.

In his role as CEO and director of A-Cap Resources Dr. Tunks led the discovery of the 10th largest uranium resource in the world and managed four separate capital raisings totalling AUD$45 million. Through his 30-year career within the resource and academic sectors Dr. Tunks has developed a unique skill set including technical, promotional and corporate.

Mr Stuart Gale

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Mr Gale has over 20 years of experience in the resources sector as a CEO and CFO. He specialises in capital markets and strategic growth, currently driving Meteoric’s development.

He was recently CFO at Mineral Resources’ Lithium Division, managing major lithium operations in Western Australia. Previously, as Managing Director and CEO of Resolute Mining Limited, he led gold mining in Mali and Senegal.

Mr Gale also spent nearly 10 years at Fortescue Metals Group overseeing financial management during its expansion. His career includes senior roles at Wesfarmers, including CFO of Wesfarmers Energy.

Mr Gale is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Fellow of Leadership Western Australia.

Dr Marcelo De Carvalho

Executive Director
Chief Geologist

Dr Carvalho graduated from the State University of Sao Paulo in 1996 with a Bachelor of Geology and commenced his exploration career in Brazil, working for Anglo Gold exploring for gold in the Amazon and subsequently with Vale, exploring for base metals.

In 2004, Dr Carvalho moved to Perth (UWA) to complete a PhD in Metalogenesis. Returning to Brazil he joined Yamana Gold and rose to the role of Greenfields Exploration Manager before departing in 2012. During that time, Marcelo led an experienced Exploration Team and was part of a several gold discoveries, taking projects from Project Generation all the way through to Mining Reserves and Development.

With the experience acquired over these years, Marcelo cofounded his own consultancy company, Target Latin America (TLA) and has over the past 10 years consulted to explorers from across the globe, selecting and managing exploration projects in the Americas.

Mr Andy Thomson

Chief Financial Officer

Andy Thomson, who has assumed the role of CFO, is a seasoned international finance and operations executive with over 30 years of experience. He has held senior leadership roles across the mining sector, specialising in delivering controlled business systems, resolving internal challenges which prevent scalable growth and creating ideas and structures that support successful business expansions.

Andy’s previous roles include, Finance Manager at Abosso Goldfields Ghana (Ranger Minerals), General Manager at Mupane Gold Mine Botswana (Gallery Gold) and most recently Commercial Manager at Regis Resources.

Dr Paul Kitto

Non-Executive
Technical Director

Dr Kitto has over thirty years’ experience working within the mining industry having served on a number of ASX Boards and holding senior level management positions around the world. Dr Kitto is currently Technical Director for Tietto Minerals (ASX:TIE).

Most recently Dr Kitto was Exploration Manager, Africa for Newcrest Mining Ltd and prior to that, was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of ASX listed Ampella Mining Ltd from 2008 until 2014, when Ampella was acquired by LSE/TSX listed Centamin PLC.

Throughout his career, Dr Kitto has led or been part of exploration teams that have discovered numerous multi‐million ounce gold deposits in Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Dr Kitto has extensive experience associated with a wide range of deposit types, predominantly associated with gold and base metal deposits.

Mr Peter Gundy

Non-Executive Director

Mr Gundy has had a long history in the Rare Earth space and was the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Neo Material Technologies Inc (”NEM”). From a start-up in 1992, Mr. Gundy created one of worlds most successful rare earth Company’s. With manufacturing plants in China and Thailand, it manufactured a full suite of advanced rare earths used in the global electronics industries and automotive sector. It also became #1 in the world in powerful high tech bonded magnetic materials for the world’s electronic industries. Rare earths permit devices to be miniaturized, make products more environmentally benign and generate important energy efficiencies in final products.

Dr Nomi Prins

Non-Executive Director

Dr Nomi Prins is an economist and leading geopolitical financial expert. Dr. Prins’ strategic insights span financial markets, banking, energy and natural resources, infrastructure, geo-political relations, and macroeconomics.

She was a managing director at Goldman Sachs and ran the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. She also held roles at Lehman Brothers and the Chase Manhattan Bank. She is a best-selling author of seven published books. Dr. Prins has testified to the U.S. Senate, advised senior U.S. leaders on matters ranging from banking to the energy transition to national defense-based critical mineral policies. She has counseled government officials around the world.

Dr Prins received her BS in Mathematics from the State University of New York, MSc.in Statistics and Operations Research from New York University, and Ph.D. in International Strategic Studies from The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Mr Matthew Foy

Company Secretary

Mr Foy is a professional company secretary and active member of the WA State Governance Council of the Governance Institute Australia (GIA). He spent four years at the ASX facilitating the listing and compliance of companies and possesses core competencies in publicly listed company secretarial, operational and governance disciplines. His working knowledge of ASIC and ASX reporting and document drafting skills ensure a solid base to make a valued contribution to Boards.

Peter Sheehan

Chief Operating Officer

Mr Sheehan has over 30 years working in Exploration, Project Development and Mines in varying roles including: Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director, Country Manager, and Principal Consultant on Projects in Australia and Africa, and the last 6 years in Brazil.

He has experience managing and motivating teams to deliver positive Scoping & Prefeasibility Study outcomes in Tanzania and Brazil, through a heavy focus on increasing resources, implementing requisite technical studies in metallurgy and mining, and managing stakeholder relations (government, landowner and indigenous). He has a proven Health & Safety and Sustainability focus developed over a career working in resource projects with multi-national companies, demonstrated by receiving IAMGOLD’s Annual Award for both Health & Safety and Sustainability whilst he was Country Manager. Combined with law studies and a qualification in financial analysis, he possesses the broad range of skills, experience and business acumen necessary to deliver a resource project through discovery, development, permitting, and into construction.

Eder Santo

Environmental Director

Extensive experience managing environmental projects at Brazilian Aluminium Company (CBA) – Mining and Power production – Yamana Gold and as Senior Environmental Consultant for Nexa with operations in USA, Canada, Peru and Brazil. Mr. SANTO have been working or auditing more than 70 mining, energy and fertilizer projects in Argentina, Chile, Canada, USA, México, and Peru. Expertise in Environmental Licensing of mining and power projects with CAPEX above US$ 250 Million; Community Relationship; EHS Management System; acid rock drainage and metal leaching; Environmental Due Diligence for both merger and acquisition; Mine Closure Plan; Environmental Reclamation; Environmental Impact Assessment; Environmental and Tailings Management System; and Corporate Sustainability Report disclosure.

Jose Alberto Dambrosio

Group HR Director

Mr. D’Ambrósio brings over 45 years of global experience with leading multinationals including Alcoa, Towers Perrin, Pricewaterhouse, TIW-Telesystem Intl. Wireless, Synova, and MetroRED/Fidelity Investments, and currently serves as Global Director of Human Resources at Meteoric. He has deep expertise in both the strategic and operational aspects of Human Resources, with a focus on innovative people management technologies. His leadership spans diverse sectors such as mining and metallurgy, telecommunications, energy, IT, and organizational consulting. Academically, he holds postgraduate qualifications in Administration and Accounting Sciences, complemented by strong expertise in business development, succession planning, and corporate governance. In addition, he spent over 15 years as an entrepreneur, founding and growing a Human Resources consulting firm delivering services across Latin America and New Zealand.

Luiz Noronha

Legal Director

Mr. Noronha graduated in Law in 1999 and is a member of the OAB (Brazilian Bar Association). He has over 20 years of experience practicing business law in Brazil, with an emphasis on contractual, corporate, mining, environmental, land access, and tax law. He specializes in establishing and managing foreign-owned companies in Brazil, working with them since their inception through to production operations. His career includes leadership roles in managing legal and land access issues, institutional and community relations, and conducting due diligence for asset acquisitions or mergers. Among the foreign-owned companies established in Brazil Mr. Noronha has worked with, some business groups include Crusader (Australia), Bailac (Chile), Centaurus (Australia), Orinoco (Australia), Sunny Skies (British Virgin Islands), Keystone (Seychelles), Alvo Minerals (Australia), and Meteoric (Australia).

Tony Hadley

Metallurgical Manager

33 years’ experience in the mining industry, specialising in complex process flowsheet development and operation including 20 years in the rare earth sector. He has held various technical and operational leadership roles, including Metallurgy Manager, General Manager, Non-Executive Director, and COO. Tony’s expertise spans the full mining life cycle, from engineering, construction, permitting, commissioning and closure. He spent 11 years at Lynas Corporation, where he was the General Manager for the Mount Weld Rare Earth Mine during its construction and commissioning and prior to that managed Process Flowsheet Development. He has designed rare earth process flowsheets for all the major primary rare earth minerals, including monazite, bastnaesite, xenotime and now rare earth ionic clays. Tony has coauthored two technical papers on rare earth process flowsheet development and presented at rare earth international conferences. His career includes experience in a variety of commodities such as gold, base metals, vanadium, tantalum, niobium and held international roles in China, New Zealand, Canada, Dominican Republic and Brazil.

Nick Bennett

General Manager Projects

Experienced Project Developer and Manager with a demonstrated history of achievements in the mining & metals industry. Able to provide a unique combination of practicality and critical thinking, of technical and execution ability, and strong listening and leading skills. 30 years work experience in engineering environments, with over 20 years experience in executing studies and projects in Project Management roles in the chemical and mineral processing industry. Skilled in Project development from concept through to commissioning, Project Management (Client, EPCM, EPC), Project Controls, Contract Management, Construction, Commissioning, Mineral Processing, Chemical Plants, Infrastructure, and Energy. A strong program and project management professional with a Engineer’s Degree focused in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia.

Mario Maia

Health & Safety Director

Mr. Mário brings 25 years of senior executive experience in QEHS (Quality, Environment, Occupational Health & Safety), Sustainability, Project Management, Civil Engineering & Construction, and ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil & Construction Engineering from Brazil, along with multiple advanced qualifications: Master’s in Sanitary & Environmental Engineering (IHE Delft, The Netherlands), a Master’s in Aviation Safety (ITA, Brazil), and a Master’s in Project Management (Universidad Internacional Isabel I de Castilla, Spain). 

His international career spans over 25 countries, with extensive global experience in Process Safety Management (PSM), Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA), and Behavior-Based Safety (BBS). He has held leadership roles in top multinational companies and competitive industries, including META (Facebook), GEA Group, GE, ALSTOM, FORVIA Faurecia, Mondelēz Inc., GERDAU, Kraft Foods Inc., and the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI).

Mr. Mário is known for driving regional QEHS strategies aligned with global standards, emphasizing risk management, safety culture transformation, legal compliance, and sustainable development. As a recognized member of the QEHS Global Leadership team, he consistently delivers high-impact results, protecting people, assets, and organizational reputation.