Board & Management

Wei Jin
EMBA, PhD, and Senior Engineer designations
Chairman & Executive Director
Notably, Mr. Jin has spent around 10 years managing an ASX-listed oil and gas company, bringing extensive experience in project development and operational management in the global energy and mining sector.

Louis Chien
MBA, BArch, BS, GAICD
Managing Director
Mr. Chien has served on the boards of four ASX-listed companies, including ASF Group Limited and Rey Resources Limited. His professional background includes expertise in acquisitions and divestitures, financial management, operational improvements, and stakeholder engagement across diverse and complex environments.
A Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Mr. Chien also holds an MBA from Indiana University and two bachelor’s degrees, all earned in the United States.

Yuqi Cao
BS (Applied Chemistry)
Executive Director
Previously, Ms. Cao served as Vice President of Guocai Technology Group Co., Ltd. and as a Director of its subsidiaries. Her expertise includes equity investment, strategic planning, risk management, and operational leadership.

Professor Bingsong Yu
BS, MS, PhD
Non-Executive Director
Professor Yu’s work has earned him multiple prestigious awards, recognising his ground-breaking research in reservoir geology and sequence stratigraphy. He has authored over 200 academic papers and published influential monographs, shaping the industry’s understanding of sedimentology and petrology.

Mr Ian Gregory
BBus, FGIA, FCIS, F Fin, MAICD
Company Secretary
Appointed as Company Secretary in November 2012, Mr Gregory is a professionally well-connected Director and Company Secretary with over 30 years of experience in the provision of company secretarial, governance and business administration services with listed and unlisted companies in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, exploration, mining, mineral processing, banking and insurance. He also has expertise which includes launching successful start-up operations through the development of the company secretarial role and board reporting processes. Mr Gregory currently consults on company secretarial and governance matters to a number of listed and unlisted companies.
Prior to founding his own consulting Company Secretarial business in 2005 Mr Gregory was the Company Secretary of Iluka Resources Limited (6 years), IBJ Australia Bank Limited Group, the Australian operations of The Industrial Bank of Japan (12 years), and the Griffin Coal Mining Group of companies (4 years).
Mr Gregory is a past member and Chairman of the Western Australian Branch Council of Governance Institute of Australia (GIA) and has also served on the National Council of GIA.