Board of Directors

H. W. Read

Professional Engineer
Professional Ing. P. Eur,
Project Management Professional (PMI)
MSc (Eng.) (Mechanical) - Wits
MA (Phil) - RAU
Hons. B.Com - Unisa

Chairman
Hennie Read has 48 years experience in engineering, consulting and mineral processing industries. He is a founding member of the global RSV Group which grew out of Read Engineering Projects.

Francois Mienie

B.Eng (Mining) - Pretoria

Chief Executive Officer
Francois has over 26 years experience in all facets of the mining industry, with expertise in the operational management of major mines in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

He has served the Australian consulting industry at executive level. He has significant exposure to Feasibility Studies, Project Management and people management skills.

Francois is responsible for the management and growth of RSV Australia in the Australasia region.

Mike Swatman

MSc (Eng.) (Mechanical) – Sheffield
Project Management Professional (PMI)

Non Executive Director
Mike Swatman has extensive experience of design and project engineering in the mining sector in South Africa. He is a founding member of the global RSV Group and has corporate responsibility for quality management within RSV.

Allan Mulligan

NHD Mining, Witwatersrand
Mine Manager's Certificate (SA)
MAusIMM, MCS

Non Executive Director
Allan is a mining engineer with 27 years of management and production experience in deep, underground mining operations. Allan has specialised in technical assessment and production economics, feasibilities, project design and costing of underground and surface mines and prospects.

He has designed, built and managed large underground mining operations and has worked in a range of occupations across the international resource industry.

Prior to establishing RSV Australia, Allan consulted as Lonmin Plc's technical representative in Australia and worked extensively with the Junior Exploration sector. During this time he observed the valuable contribution this sector makes to the Australian mining industry. He has developed close ties with the industry and understands it's unique needs in terms of austere and measured technical development.

Allan has served as a non executive director of ASX and AIM listed Platinum Australia and of ASX listed Mount Burgess Mining.