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Senior Management
Senior Management
Kingsgate’s executives have a comprehensive 
range of skills and experience including mine 
development and operations, exploration, finance 
and administration. They are supported by highly 
qualified specialists, whose backgrounds cover 
the full scope of mining resources activities.
Senior members of Kingsgate’s management 
team are:
Gavin Thomas 
BSc (Geology), FAusIMM
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer 
Gavin Thomas was appointed Chief Executive 
Officer of Kingsgate in 2004 and joined the 
Kingsgate Board on 16th November 2007. Gavin 
has had a successful career in developing mining 
companies from the exploration phase into 
mid-tier gold or copper producers. He has over 
42 years of international experience in exploring 
for, evaluating, developing, operating and 
reclaiming mines in North and South America, 
Australia, the Southwest Pacific, Asia and 
Europe. Amongst Gavin’s credits is the discovery 
of “Lihir” in Papua New Guinea, one of the 
largest gold deposits in the world. In particular, 
he has extensive experience in Thailand and 
South America. 
Duane Woodbury 
BEc (Hons) 
Chief Financial Officer
Duane Woodbury was appointed Chief Financial 
Officer of Kingsgate on 1 September 2011. 
Duane has a BEc (Hons) Degree and has worked 
in various financial, accounting and advisory 
roles during his career in a number of locations, 
including London, New York and Singapore.  He 
has been assisting Kingsgate in its business 
development initiatives since August 2007 and 
brings over 20 years of experience in financial 
markets and corporate finance transactions, 
principally with the Macquarie Group. 
Tim Benfield
Dip CSM (mining), MBA, MAusIMM
Chief Operating Officer
Tim Benfield joined Kingsgate in February 2012 
as Chief Operating Officer. Tim is a mining 
engineer with over 21 years underground and 
open pit experience in the mining industry in 
both operational and corporate roles. He has 
operational and project development experience 
in Australia, Africa and Saudi Arabia. This 
includes 10 years with Barrick Gold of Australia 
where he provided support to four operating 
mines and two development projects. Tim was 
most recently General Manager of the Pajingo 
Gold mine in Queensland for Evolution Mining 
Limited.
Ross Coyle 
BA, FCPA, FCIS
General Manager Finance and Administration 
Company Secretary
Ross Coyle joined Kingsgate in March 2011 
following the Company’s acquisition of Dominion 
Mining Limited and was with the Dominion 
group for over 25 years. He is a qualified 
accountant and has over 30 years experience in 
finance and accounting within the resource 
industry. He was Finance Director of Dominion 
from 1996. Ross was appointed Kingsgate’s 
Company Secretary in September 2011.
Joel Forwood 
Bsc (Hons) FFin
General Manager Corporate and Markets
Joel Forwood joined Kingsgate in November 
2010 and has over 27 years experience in the 
resource and investment industries covering 
investor relations, funds management and 
exploration. For over 12 years, he has been 
leading investor relations at a number of listed 
companies, most recently for Lihir Gold Limited. 
Prior to this he was a fund manager with 
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) 
following his early career in mineral exploration 
with BHP and corporate development with RGC.
Ronald James 
BSc (Geology), MAusIMM, MAIG 
General Manager Exploration and Resource 
Development
Ron James has 30 years of experience in explora-
tion and mining at management level inclusive 
of setting up gold mines and exploration 
projects from their earliest stages through to 
development and sustainability. Before joining 
Kingsgate, he was Chief Mine Geologist at the 
Gold Ridge Mine in the Solomon Islands and 
later Group Exploration Manager for Ross Mining 
NL. Ron is familiar with the technical and oper-
ating requirements for emerging projects in a 
variety of terrains and environments and has a