Board, Management and Advisers

Sevag Chalabian (Chairman)

Sevag Chalabian is a commercial lawyer and adviser. Until March 2004, he was a Partner with Phillips Fox Lawyers. In 2004, he established in partnership a boutique commercial law practice, Lands Legal. His practice concentrates on mining joint ventures, corporate transactions and property and financing projects.

Tony Ho (Non-Executive Director)

Mr Ho has had more than 30 years' experience as a senior executive and director mainly as a director of listed companies. Mr Ho's background is in finance and positions that he has held during his career include Chief Financial Officer of Volante Group Ltd, one of the largest Australian-owned ASX-listed computer services companies; Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Arthur Yates & Co Limited; Executive Finance Director of Downtown Duty Free Pty Limited; and Chief Financial Officer of ASX-listed M.S. McLeod Holdings Limited.

Currently Mr Ho is a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee of Dolomatrix International Limited, a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Greenland Minerals & Energy Limited. Mr Ho is also the Deputy Chairman of Quality Improvements Council Limited which is the company that provides accreditation audit services to the Community Health and Community Services sectors in Australia and New Zealand.

Wang Jianguang (Non-Executive Director)

Mr Wang has eight years of experience in the mining and iron-making industry in China.  Benefitting from extensive working and studying experiences in China and abroad, Mr Wang has gained unique perspective into the economics and politics of both China and Australia, which has become increasingly critical for advising on and facilitating business negotiation and cooperation with international counterparties. In 2007, Mr Wang, along with other shareholders, established Hugo Natural Enterprises Ltd.

As a director, he has been in charge of business development in mining industry overseas. Mr Wang holds a bachelor's degree in Economics Law.

Peter McNally (Executive Director)

Mr McNally brings more than 35 years experience in the resources sector to Apollo and has extensive experience in leading project teams in the development of new mining projects. He has held directorships in a number of successful mining companies and held managerial positions with the North Limited Group of Companies spanning over 15 years experience in iron ore projects.

The Board believes the appointment of Mr McNally with a successful project development and operating background comes at an important time for Apollo, with the flagship Mount Oscar Project reaching a number of critical milestones in its development timetable.

Guy Robertson (Secretary)

Mr Robertson has over 25 years' experience in both public and private companies in Australia and Hong Kong. For 16 years he was a Finance Director/CFO of various companies within the Jardine Matheson Group.

John Bridson (Consulting Geologist)

John Bridson is a geologist with a Masters of Science from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

John has more than 25 years' experience in exploration, predominantly in iron ore, gold and base metals. He has a particularly strong background in iron ore, having worked with iron ore developers and producers Mt Gibson Iron Limited, Portman Limited and, most recently, Sinosteel Midwest.  

He also has international exposure in Indonesia with Herald Resources as their Exploration Manager in the 1990s and was responsible for management of gold and base metal exploration programmes which included the successful discovery of a high-grade sedex lead zinc deposit in North Sumatra.