Board & Management
Torque’s Board and management have extensive experience in the exploration, development and financing of mining projects in Australia and overseas.
Patrick Burke
Non-Executive Chairman
Pat has extensive legal and corporate advisory experience and has acted as Director for a large number of ASX, NASDAQ, and AIM listed companies. Pat is currently Executive Chairman of Meteoric Resources, Non-Executive Chairman of Province Resources and of Mandrake Resources, and a Non-Executive Director of Triton Minerals.
Tony Lofthouse
Non-Executive Director
Tony has more than 43 years of working in the resources sector in Australia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience including working as a field geologist; a resources equity analyst; a corporate banker managing a portfolio of resource and infrastructure customers; and most recently 7 years as CEO of ASX-listed explorer Ora Gold Limited.
Cristian Moreno
Managing Director
Appointed as Managing Director in October 2022 after serving as CEO since April 2022. Cristian has previously served in various roles including oil and gas marketing manager of an overseas Oil & Gas company as well as exploration geologist of Australian mining companies. He holds a high distinction in MSc (Geophysics) from Curtin University, a BSc (Geology) and BEng (Agri. Eng.) from the National University of Colombia and he is currently finishing a MSc (Statistics and Data Science) from KU Leuven University.
Andrew Woskett
Non-Executive Director
Andrew Woskett is a highly respected senior executive with over 40 years of project and corporate experience in the resources industry. He brings a wealth of experience in bringing assets to development, having been responsible for evaluation, definition, promotion, financing and management of multiple resource projects in gold, base metals, nickel, iron ore and coal. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has an engineering degree and Masters degree in Commercial Law.
Technical Team
Neil W. McKay, CFO / Company Secretary
Neil is an accountant with more than 40 years in senior accounting, finance and company secretarial roles. He was a founding director, Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of ASX listed Trafford Resources, Tyranna Resources and IronClad Mining.
Mareshet (Mambo) Meshshesha, Exploration Manager
Mambo is an experienced Mine Geologist with over 30 years of experience. He has worked extensively on mineral projects across Western Australia, as well as in the Northern Territory, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Most recently, he was Mine Geologist for Red5 Limited (ASX:RED) (Red5) on the King of the Hills Development Project in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, which saw first gold produced on 5 June 2022. He also worked on Red5’s Darlot Satellite Gold Mine.
Mambo has worked across multiple commodities on a number of successful projects brought successfully to production, including Cassini Nickel, Sunrise Dam Gold and Silverlake Nickel Mine. His experience covers all aspects of exploration program design, including interpretation of geological, geochemical and geophysical data.
Dheerej Hanuram Sathish Kumar, Geoscientist
Dheerej holds a Bachelor of Science (Exploration Geophysics) and Master of Geoscience (Mining Geology) from Curtin University. He has a passion for mineral exploration in particular the study of different exploration methods.
Leonardo Lopez, Junior Geologist
Leonardo holds a Geology degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with experience in geological cartography, survey of stratigraphic columns, litho-geochemical characterization, petrography, palynology and inventory of water bodies.