Venture Minerals has announced the appointment of a new Non-Executive Director to its Board.
The appointment of Philippa Leggat to the role follows Venture’s commitment to embark on a strategy aimed at recruiting new talent and skill sets to the company’s Non-Executive team.
The strategy will also see the current Non-Executive Chair, Mel Ashton, retire from his position following the Annual General Meeting. The company has commenced a recruitment process to secure a new Non-Executive Chair, with a number of high calibre candidates currently underconsideration.
Ms Leggat is a mineral industry executive with over 20 years of experience in advancing domestic and international projects along the value chain. She has served as an executive director and advisor to ASX-listed companies engaged in capital raising, exploration, development and project evaluation.
Ms Leggat has a track record of negotiating value accretive project acquisitions and effectively communicating an organisation’s competitive advantages to raise its profile.
In addition to her advisory work, Ms Leggat previously served in ASX-listed companies as CEO of Comet Resources, Executive Director of Geopacific Resources and Non-Executive Director of Kula Gold, and Ensurance. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Harena Resources, a private Australian company that is focused on developing a large Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar.
Ms Leggat is currently studying a master’s degree in Data Science Strategy and Leadership through RMIT, with the aim of improving her ability to assist companies to use their data to gain insights and make better decisions.
Ms Leggat holds bachelor degrees in Commerce (financial management, strategy and risk) and Art (jewellery, gemmology and metallurgy). She is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Venture thanked Mr Ashton, a founding director, for his long service and contributions to Venture since it listed in 2006 and wished him success in his future endeavours.
Venture’s Managing Director, Andrew Radonjic, said that the company is delighted to have Ms Leggat join the board, as it looks to build its profile and moves forward with its diversified portfolio of mineral assets with a strong representation in the critical minerals space.
“Ms Leggat’s skill set will add another dimension to Venture’s strategic decision-making as it pushes towards developing sustainable critical minerals projects that are needed for decarbonisation of the world’s economy,” Mr Radonjic said.
“The company would like to acknowledge the efforts of Mr Ashton who has provided Venture with strong guidance over a sustained period of time especially on the Mount Lindsay Tin-Tungsten Project which is well positioned for future development.”
