Rick Streiff is a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists and has over 40 years of industry experience. He began his career in the Cascade epithermal districts of Western Oregon while finishing his geology degree at University of Oregon. He has worked for Echo Bay Mines (now part of Kinross) at the Round Mountain and McCoy/Cove mines in Nevada as well as at Republic, Washington. He also worked for Newmont Mining Corporation in various locations on the Carlin and Battle Mountain Trends as well as at Midas in Nevada. Additional work for Newmont has included project evaluations at Ivanhoe in Nevada, McDonald Meadows in Montana, Pajingo and Bendigo in Australia as well as El Penon and La Florida in Chile. Rick has held a number of positions at Newmont, including the Nevada Underground Geology Manager responsible for the team of geologists at all of Newmont’s underground mines in Nevada. The Newmont Underground Projects group was formed under his watch and was responsible for bringing several underground projects into production, including Pete Bajo, Fence, Exodus and Visa vein. He was responsible for the exploration programme at Waihi, New Zealand from late 2007 to mid-2011 for Newmont and returned to Waihi in 2016 to restart the Hauraki exploration programme for OceanaGold, resulting in the WKP discovery in late 2017. Rick is currently the Great Basin Exploration Manager based in Reno, Nevada.

Leroy Crawford-Flett is a Senior Project Geologist at OceanaGold’s Waihi operation. A graduate of Victoria University in Wellington NZ, Leroy began a career in economic geology as production geologist at the Globe-Progress Mine in Reefton in 2009 before a move to the Martha Open-Pit operation for Newmont in 2011, where he held production and project roles on surface as well as getting a taste for underground production. He completed a Master of Project Management through the University of Sydney in 2015, the same year that the failure of the Martha Pit’s north wall and a transition from Newmont to OceanaGold heralded a renewed appetite for exploration within the Waihi Camp. His current role involves the planning and management of resource development projects, including diamond drilling, geological modeling and estimation.

Paul Angus has over 30 years experience in mining and exploration in New Zealand. He joined OceanaGold in 1990 and served numerous management roles within OceanaGold including Exploration, Mining and Development between between 1996 and 2005. During that time his team discovered more than 3Moz of gold at Macraes and Reefton and Sams Creek, and was responsible for the mining planning at Macraes and the Frasers Underground and the Reefton Goldfield feasibility studies. Paul has been consulting on various exploration and mining projects for the last 13 years including Project Manager for MOD Resources Limited at the Sams Creek Project since 2011. Paul is currently a Director of Sams Creek Gold Limited and Condamine Resources Ltd which as permits in the Reefton Goldfield.

Hamish gained an BSc in Geology from the University of Otago in 1999 and then an MSc in 2005. Since graduating Hamish has work in SE Asia as a geophysicist, then Suriname and the Yukon as an exploration geologist. In 2009 Hamish joined OceanaGold, initially working in the Reefton Goldfield then in 2016 he became the Superintendent of Exploration at OceanaGold's Macraes operation.

Phaedra is a Geodynamic modeller at GNS Science. Her interests lie in understanding geological processes especially those driven by collisional tectonics. She builds and runs three-dimensional numerical models to explore processes of mountain building. She uses the Southern Alps as a modern analogue to explain ancient mountain belts and associated mineral systems. She enjoys working with geologists and geophysics who ask why things have occurred, provide data to constrain her models as well as robust discussion to critique them.