Gordon Galt
Chairman
B.Eng Mining (Hons), B.Comm, Grad Dip Applied Finance, MAusIMM, MAICD
Gordon has worked in the resources and finance industries for over 35 years and is currently a Principal of a leading Australian based resources investment Fund.
He has extensive technical, operational, project management and senior managerial experience in the Australian coal industry at Thiess, Capricorn Coal, Exxon Coal and Minerals, Ulan Coal Mines and Cumnock Coal. He has served as Managing Director at Cumnock Coal, Newcrest Mining and Magnesium International and also spent a number of years as Managing Director of the Energy, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sector for ABN AMRO Bank Australasia.
Gordon is currently a non executive Director of ASX listed Aquila Resources Limited, Navigator Resources and Discovery Metals Limited (Chairman). He is a former Director of Gloucester Coal Limited.
Stephen Bizzaca
Managing Director
Steve is an Electrical Engineer with more than 20 years’ experience in the underground coal and metalliferous mining industries.
Steve’s experience is wide ranging, including large project management, longwall moves, conveyor installations and maintenance and operational management in mining and engineering. He has extensive knowledge of the industry, particularly in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland.
Steve was responsible for the purchase and commissioning of Queensland’s first modern longwall at Central Colliery in 1985 and was the Project Director for the design and development of the Southern Colliery Project in 1988. He was Project Manager/Operations Manager for TiWest Ltd and Project Manager for feasibility studies for Newcrest’s Telfer expansion.
Steve has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Curtin University. He founded SBD Services in 1995 and has led its growth since then.
Glyn Dawkins
Executive Director
Glyn began his career at Six Bells Colliery in Wales UK in 1963. He immigrated to Australia in 1978 and started at Appin Colliery as Assistant Mechanical Engineer. Glyn was promoted to Mechanical Engineer in Charge at Appin Colliery in 1980 and remained in that role until 1997 when he left Appin to commence with Aklynd Engineering. He founded Delta Mining in 1998.
Glyn has an Honours Certificate in Mechanical Engineering and a Mine Mechanical Engineers Certificate of Competency in both the UK and NSW.
Tony De Santis
Chief Operating Officer
Tony has extensive experience in the underground coal mining industry across a wide variety of operational and management roles, in both the Southern Coalfields of NSW and the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland.
He started as a Mining Engineer Trainee with BHP Illawarra Coal at the Old Bulli Colliery in 1982 and worked in a number of supervisory and managerial roles within BHP Billiton’s Illawarra mines, including Mine Manager at the Elouera and Appin mines and Superintendent of the combined Appin and Tower mines.
In 2001, Tony took up the role of Mine Manager at AngloCoal’s Moranbah North Mine in central Queensland, before moving back to Wollongong and joining Excel Coal as General Manager Helensburgh Coal in May 2002.
Tony has a NSW First Class Certificate of Competency and an MBA from the University of Wollongong.He joined DeltaSBD in February 2007.
