The Board

Matt Birney

Non-Executive Chairman, Appointed 26 August 2010

Matt Birney was a Member of the West Australian Parliament for nearly eight years before voluntarily retiring at the 2008 election to pursue other interests.

During that time he held the positions of Leader of the Opposition, Shadow State Treasurer for Western Australia , Shadow Minister for Commerce and International Trade and Shadow Minister for Police .

Mr Birney is also the former Deputy Chairman of the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) Joint Standing Committee which is the body that has oversight responsibility for the “CCC”. 

Prior to entering Parliament, Mr Birney commenced, owned and operated a string of successful businesses in various fields and he still maintains a number of private business interests today.

Mr Birney was also the founding Non-Executive Chairman of publicly listed carbon credit supplier, Carbon Conscious Ltd at the time of its listing and oversaw the signing of carbon credit supply contracts worth up to $180m when fully executed.

Matt Birney has a unique understanding of dealing with the Australian media and as the former Leader of the Liberal Party his knowledge of the workings of Government and his contact base within West Australian Government, media and industry circles will be beneficial to Coretrack Ltd as he steers the company through its commercialisation.

Mr Trevor Beazley

Non-Executive Director, Appointed 13 August 2009

Mr Beazley is the founder and Managing Director of Perth based corporate advisory firm Maiden Capital, specialising in ASX listings and capital raisings. Mr Beazley holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Accounting and has over 15 years of public company and capital markets experience.

Mr Beazley also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Vmoto Limited. Mr Beazley’s experience and skills are complementary to and a great fit with the skill sets of the                                            current Directors of Coretrack.

Mr Winton Willesee (Qualifications: BBus., DipEd., PGDipBus., MCom., FFin, CPA, MAICD, ACISB.)

Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary, Appointed 4 October 2010

Winton is an experienced Director in the small capitalisation sector of ASX. Mr Willesee brings a broad range of experience in company administration, corporate governance, company public listings, merger and acquisition transactions, reconstructions and corporate finance from his background with listed and unlisted public and other companies.

Winton has a Master of Commerce, Post-Graduate Diploma in Business (Economics and Finance), a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance, a Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Business. Winton is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Member of CPA Australia and a Chartered Secretary.

As well as Coretrack Limited, Winton is currently the Chairman of Birimian Gold Limited, Bioprospect Limited, Cove Resources Limited and Mining Group Limited, a director of Base Resources Limited, Newera Resources Limited, Torrens Energy Limited and Otis Energy Limited.