Howard Walker BSc, ARSM, MAusIMM
Executive Director
Howard Walker graduated as a Mining Engineer from the Royal School of Mines in London in 1975. He worked for General Mining in South Africa for five years, prior to joining Mount Isa Mines in Queensland as a mine planning engineer in the copper and lead/zinc areas. In 1983, Howard joined stockbroker J B Were & Son as precious metals analyst, specialising in the Australian gold sector. He became an associate director of the firm in 1986, and was appointed Manager of the Resources Research team in 1987.
Howard joined J B Were Corporate Services Limited as a director in 1990 and was closely involved in numerous capital raisings for resource companies such as BHP Gold, Asarco Australia, Plutonic Resources Limited, Acacia Resources Limited, Lihir Gold Limited, North Flinders Mines Limited and Homestake Gold of Australia. Howard was a director of Highlake Resources NL from 1996 to 1997.
Howard was an executive director of Lion Manager from 1997 before retiring in 2007, and is Executive Chairman of Altitude Investments, which is a shareholder in Asian Lion. Howard holds 275,352 Lion Selection Group shares.