Board of Directors

Bruce McInnes

Executive Chairman

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) – University of New South Wales

Mr McInnes has been in the public and commercial accounting sectors for more than 40 years. He was a founding partner and is now the senior partner at accounting firm McInnes & Associates based in Leeton, New South Wales. Mr McInnes also owns a large agricultural business in Riverina, New South Wales. He had volunteered as the treasurer of Telstra Child Flight, a not-for-profit organisation that provided helicopter for sick and injured children in remote areas of New South Wales. He commenced as a director of the Company on 9 May 2013.

Shengqiang (Sean) Zhou

Deputy Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) - University of Sydney

Masters in Project Management - University of Sydney

Mr Zhou has more than 13 years’ experience in project management, funds management and investment banking with a focus on infrastructure investment in the Asia Pacific Region. 

During Mr Zhou’s time as Head of the China team of Inbound Investment at CPG Capital Partners Ltd, a Singapore based investment bank, he was responsible for raising  more than US$500 million in funding.

Prior to CPG, Mr Zhou was General Manager Australia for Shanghai General Metal Structural Engineering Limited.

Mr Zhou commenced as a director of the Company on 15 August 2014.

Yan Chao (Hunter) Guo

Non-Executive Director

Mr Guo has more than 25 years’ experience in global commodity research and trade as well as gold futures analysis and investment.  

He is a senior executive of a significant commodities trading house with annual turnover in excess of US$2 billion.

Mr Guo became a strategic investor in Vango Mining in 2017, and commenced as a director of the Company on 6 January 2020.

John McKinstry

Non-Executive Director

Bachelor of Engineering – University Queensland  

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration – Mount Eliza Graduate School, Victoria.

John McKinstry is a mining engineer with extensive experience in open pit and underground mining, operations, and development with international mining companies, specialising in small mines. He has held senior management positions in gold and base metal mines within Australia and overseas.