Mr McKerlie brings experience in guiding ASX-listed companies through capital-intensive growth phases and directed transactions across oil and gas, iron ore, and lithium sectors. His appointment is designed to strengthen the Company's capacity to execute the DFS, access capital markets, and manage the governance demands of a company transitioning to production. Jim McKerlie is an experienced board director, international executive, corporate adviser and strategy consultant. He brings to Impact Minerals a background in strategy development and execution, capital markets, M&A, board governance and stakeholder management. As Chair of Magnetite Mines Ltd from 2022 to 2024, Jim led a full corporate and board renewal of the company, which holds a magnetite iron ore deposit in South Australia. His resources career spans over a decade of ASX board leadership, including as Chair of Drillsearch Energy, where he grew a precedent company from an $8 million market cap to an ASX 200 company valued at $750 million, overseeing mergers, capital raisings, joint ventures, takeover actions and ultimately the merger with Beach Energy to create an ASX 100 company. He subsequently served as a director of Beach Energy during the $1.7 billion acquisition of the Lattice business from Origin Energy.
