Mr Middlemas is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He worked for a large international chartered accounting firm before joining the Normandy Mining Group.

At the time, Normandy was Australia’s largest gold miner. In 2002 it was taken over by Newmont Mining for $5.1 billion. Mr Middlemas was a senior group executive at Normandy for approximately 10 years.

He has had extensive corporate and management experience and is an experienced Chairman of ASX, LSE, NASDAQ and European listed resource companies.