Rakesh Gupta

Mr Gupta prior to joining the Company, worked at BHP Billiton Iron Ore in mine planning, and has played a role in future mine strategic replacement projects and in the development of the life of asset plans for corporate alignment process, including being responsible for framing the case scenarios and development of the current and future iron ore mine plans. Mr Gupta having worked at AMEC Minproc and SRK Consulting for several years, including assisting FMG (Iron ore Project) in the preparation of its long-term strategic mine plan for the Chichester 90 MTPA (Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek operation), and he also worked for Barrick Gold, Australia for a brief period.