Board of Directors

Yongji Duan, Chairman of the Board

Yongji Duan joined Stone Group in 1985 and has served as Vice President and President prior to his promotion to the Chairman of the Board in 1999. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Stone Group Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries in 2002.

As a well-know entrepreneur and business leader in China, Mr. Duan has achieved outstanding performances. From 1999 to 2007, he has held the position as Director of Beijing Centergate Technologies (Holding) Co., Ltd., a company listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange. From 2003 to 2008, he also served as Director of SINA Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA).

Mr. Duan graduated from Tsinghua University and was a researcher at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He acted as Vice Director of 621 Laboratory at China National Space Administration from 1982 to 1984..

Kaiye Shuai, Director

Dr. Kaiye Shuai was appointed Chief Geologist of Stone Resources Limited and was also appointed to its Board of Directors in 2007. Dr. Shuai is an experienced geologist with a wealth of expertise in the mining sector.

Prior to his appointment, he has been Professor in China University of Geosciences for over 10 years. Early in his professional career, Dr. Shuai served as Geological Engineer in No. 16 Geological Team at Yunnan Provincial Geological Bureau from 1970 to 1979. He has participated in the exploration of Potash, Copper and Iron Deposit in Yunnan province in the 1970s and the exploration of Zhaoyuan Gold mine in Shandong province in the 1980s.

Dr. Shuai graduated from Chengdu  College of geology in 1970. He received his doctorate and Master degree from China University of Geosciences in the 1980s. From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the United States.

Edward K.H. Tai, Director

Edward, is currently the legal counsel to Stone Resources Limited and Stone Group Holdings Limited. Edward holds a degree in law and post-graduate certificate in law awarded by the University of Hong Kong and is a solicitor admitted in Australia (New South Wales and South Australia), England & Wales and Hong Kong. He has more than 15 years’ experience both in private practice and as counsel to various listed companies, specializing in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance law, and in recent years, with an emphasis on the resources and mineral sector.

 

He has also done undertaken fly-in, fly-out work for gold miner Great Central Mines and has been involved in a number of startup gold operations including Kanowna Belle and more recently Allied Gold’s Simberi mine.

Ross Louthean, Non-Executive Director

Ross has had more than 45 years in business and political journalism and developed the original publications for Perth’s three resources publishing houses and developed their original mining conferences.

He has also been editor and publisher of other mining publications, including the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy’s Bulletin magazine. He has won several media awards and now operates as a consultant in the media business, writes columns and articles for publications and websites and is a director and editor of a company that has a resources website on New Zealand.