Mr Vitale is a corporate and mining operations and project development executive with 30 years of experience in the mineral resources sector. His focus has been gold, base metals, ferrous and non-ferrous metals and on turnaround situations identifying value-driven mergers and acquisitions. Former senior appointments held with Normandy Mining Group (one of Australia's largest gold producers, since acquired by Newmont), Standard Chartered Bank, Burdekin Resources/Redbank Mines Ltd (founder and CEO with operations in Australia and Fiji), Bligh Resources Ltd (since acquired by Saracen Mineral Holdings and subsequently merged with Northern Star Ltd, to become a tier 1 gold producer in Australia). Mr Vitale was previously (until June 2023) a Non-Executive Director of TSX.V listed Denarius Metals Corp which acquired the Lomero polymetallic project in Spain in April 2021 from a company of which he was foundation director. During the mid 2000's he was a member of the ASX Corporate Governance Review Committee and brought a practical perspective on compliance guidelines for small to mid-cap company.
