Board and Management

Jindalee is led by a management team with strong technical and commercial skills and with previous experience transforming junior explorers into successful mining companies. Brief profiles of the Directors and management team are given below: 

Justin Mannolini
B.Com/LL (Hons), LLM (Cantab), GAICD, SA FIN
Non-Executive Chairman

Mr Mannolini was appointed to the Jindalee Board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2013 and was appointed Chairman in July 2016.

Mr Mannolini is a partner in the Corporate Advisory Group of Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin.  He was an Executive Director with Macquarie Capital, the investment banking division of the Macquarie Group from March 2016 to May 2016 and was responsible for cross-industry coverage of the Western Australian market.  Prior to joining Macquarie, Mr Mannolini was Managing Director and head of Gresham Advisory Partners’ Perth office, and before that, a partner in the mergers and acquisitions group of Australian law firm Freehills.  In May 2016 Mr Mannolini was appointed to the board of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, a $5B fund set up by the Australian Government to encourage population growth and economic development in northern Australia.

As a lawyer and investment banker, Mr Mannolini has more than 20 years experience in corporate finance ranging across industry sectors and product lines, including mergers and acquisitions transactions and general strategic advisory mandates for companies in the resources sector .

Mr Mannolini has a combined degree in Commerce and Law (with Honours) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge (Queens College).

Lindsay Dudfield
B.Sc.
Executive Director

Mr Dudfield is a geologist with almost 40 years experience in multi-commodity exploration, primarily within Australia. He held senior positions with the mineral divisions of Amoco (1977-1979) and Exxon (1980-1987) and was closely involved with the delineation of the Scuddles zinc-copper mine at Golden Grove, WA.

In 1987 he became a founding Director of Dalrymple Resources NL and spent the following 8 years helping acquire and explore Dalrymple’s properties, leading to a number of greenfields discoveries. In late 1994 Mr Dudfield joined the Board of Horizon Mining NL (JIndalee’s predecessor) and has been responsible for managing Jindalee since inception.

Mr Dudfield is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, the Geological Society of Australia and the Society of Economic Geologists. He is also a Non-executive Director of Energy Metals Limited and Alchemy Resources Limited.

Patricia (Trish) Farr
GradCertProfAcc., GradDipACG., GAICD, FGIA/FCIS
Executive Director/Company Secretary

Ms Farr joined Jindalee when the Company listed in July 2002 and has been closely involved with the growth and development of the Company since listing.

Ms Farr is an experienced Chartered Secretary with over 20 years experience in providing company secretarial and corporate governance services to a small portfolio of ASX listed and unlisted companies, predominantly in the mineral resources, research and health sectors.

Ms Farr is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Fellow member of Governance Institute of Australia (formerly Chartered Secretaries Australia) and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators. Ms Farr was appointed to the Jindalee Board in 2008.

Karen Wellman
B.Sc., B.Comm
Chief Executive Officer

Mrs Wellman is a geologist with almost 20 years’ experience covering all aspects of the mining cycle from early stage exploration, production and mine geology, through to resource definition and estimation.

Most recently Mrs Wellman held senior roles at Silver Lake Resources Limited and Doray Minerals Limited where she made significant contributions to the success of the Deflector Gold-Copper Project in Western Australia.  Previously she worked as a Geology Consultant for Optiro on a range of international and Australian exploration and resource projects.  Mrs Wellman spent three years working in Scandinavia on volcanolgenic massive sulphide and gold-copper porphyry deposits for Boliden Minerals AB and held multiple roles at St Ives Gold Mine in Kambalda with Goldfields Australia.

Mrs Wellman is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.