Mr Andrews serves as the Executive Chair of Magontec Limited. From 2007 to 2009 Mr Andrews served as a Non-Executive Director of Advanced Magnesium Limited prior to the acquisition of Magontec GmbH and the company name change to Magontec Limited. Mr Andrews has a financial services background in investment management and investment banking. From 1996 to 2005 he was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank and responsible for global distribution of Australian and New Zealand Equity products. From 1989 to 1996 Mr Andrews was the Chief Investment Officer at LGT Investment Management in charge of the group’s investment portfolios for the Australasian region.
Mr Andrews is a Member of the Executive Committee and serves on the Board of the International Magnesium Association. Since 2017 he has also served as Honorary Treasurer of the IMA. In November 2023, Mr Andrews was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of CarbonXT Group Limited.
Mr Kaye was admitted to legal practice in 1978 and employed as a solicitor at Allen, Allen & Hemsley Solicitors. Thereafter he pursued his legal career at the NSW Bar and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003, practising in commercial law. He has been involved in an array of commercial matters both advisory and litigious in nature and served on a number of NSW Bar Association committees including the Professional Conduct Committee. In the conduct of his practice as a barrister, he has acted for many financial institutions and commercial enterprises, both public and private and given both legal and strategic advice. He has had significant mediation experience and been involved in the successful resolution of complex commercial disputes.
Mr Kaye is currently Chair and a Non-Executive Director of Collins Foods Limited and a Non-Executive Director at FAR Limited. Mr Kaye was previously the Chair of Spicers Limited, the Chair of the Macular Disease Foundation Australia and was formerly a Non-Executive Director with UGL Limited, Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited and HT&E Limited.
Mr Malhotra has an extensive professional background in Procurement, Supply Management, Strategy, Business Development and other functions. During his career spanning over 40 years, he has held executive roles at ABB, Bombardier Transportation, Adtranz and Continental with responsibility for projects and operations in Europe, Asia and Australia.
For over 10 years till October 2013, Mr Malhotra was the Head of Purchasing and a Member of the Group Management at Georg Fischer Automotive Group, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, a leading global supplier of cast metal (including magnesium) parts with an annual turnover of approximately 1,200m Euro and 11 production units located in Europe and China.
As Head of Purchasing, his main responsibilities included establishing procurement strategy and managing the procurement function. As part of the Group’s senior management team, he also held co-responsibility for providing strategic direction to, and oversight of, the business units with reporting responsibilities to the Corporate division. Since January 2014 he has been acting as an independent adviser to various corporate clients and businesses.
Mr Labuschagne is the Executive Chair of Aeris Resources Limited. Mr Labuschagne is an experienced mining executive with a career spanning more than 30 years, primarily in the gold industry, and has held various executive roles in South Africa, PNG, Fiji and Australia for a number of leading gold companies, including Emperor Gold Mines, DRD Gold and AngloGold Ashanti.
Mr Labuschagne was previously Managing Director of ASX listed gold company, Norton Gold Fields Limited
Mr Li is the owner of Tianjin Keweier Metal Material Co Ltd (KWE (TJ)) in China. He is a graduate of Wuhan University of Technology and spent 10 years at Tianjin Auto Industry Company Ltd. For more than 10 years, Mr Li has built a trading and manufacturing business that specialises in magnesium products. KWE (TJ) has facilities located in Hong Kong and Tianjin and a broad experience of the global magnesium industry. Mr Li is a major beneficial shareholder in Magontec Limited.
Mr Xing Cai Li is General Manager of Qinghai Huixin Asset Management Co Ltd (QHAM), the owner of Qinghai Salt Lake Magnesium Co Ltd (QSLM), which operates the Qinghai electrolytic magnesium smelter complex in which Magontec’s Magnesium Alloy Cast House is based. Mr Li has held previous positions as the Deputy Director of Finance at the Shanghai and Hong Kong listed Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco), one of the world’s largest producers of alumina and aluminium.
Prior to that Mr Li was Vice President at Western Mining Co Ltd, responsible for overall financial management, fund raising and investment management as well as being secretary to the Board. Western Mining is a ¥23 billion company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange engaged in the mining, smelting, and trading of metal minerals, including copper, lead, zinc, iron, gold and silver.
QSLM is a 28.9% substantial shareholder in Magontec Limited and the company with whom Magontec Limited has entered into a number of agreements in relation to the Magontec Qinghai alloy production facility at Golmud in Qinghai Province PRC.