Company
Sydney based gold explorer, Australian Gold Investments Limited, (ASX code AGV) was incorporated as a company on 12 April 2007. On 14 January 2008, it made its debut on the Australian Stock Exchange. $5 million was raised through an oversubscribed initial offer of 25 million shares at 20 cents each.
Management
AGV has a high calibre board and management team with proven, technical, operational and financial skills with experience in the exploration and discovery of mineral deposits.
Directors and Officers
Pnina Feldman
Executive Chairperson, Business Development
Pnina Feldman has been active in the mineral exploration industry for 15 years, in which time she has shown much tenacity in sourcing, negotiating and developing exploration and resource projects across Australia, and internationally. She was the founder and executive chairperson of the publicly listed Diamond Rose NL, and was the first woman in Australia to achieve that milestone in the mining industry. Pnina Feldman has been successful in negotiating many joint ventures with major companies including BHP and De Beers. Pnina studied Law and Arts at Melbourne University before going to Gateshead, England where she studied teaching, religion and education. She has been the founder and driving force behind, and benefactor to, numerous communal, educational, charitable and women's awareness initiatives, and in 2007 received the Wentworth community award for outstanding community service.
Sholom Feldman
Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary
Sholom Feldman has extensive experience in general commercial management, has performed advisory and company secretarial work for both listed and unlisted companies and has managed both private and listed exploration companies. Sholom Feldman was general manager of the publicly listed Diamond Rose NL between 1999 and 2005 and is a director and manager of a number of private companies. He has been instrumental in negotiating, financing, developing and managing many exploration projects internationally including the purchase of the Guanaco Mine in Chile from the Canadian Kinross Gold Corporation, and subsequently their Australian gold assets including the Broads Dam Gold Project. Sholom Feldman studied at the International MBA program at Bar Ilan University in Israel and has also completed a Company Secretarial Practice and Meetings course with the Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries Australia.
Paul Stephenson
Non-Executive Director
Mr Stephenson has degrees in law and the arts and is a Partner with the Australian national law firm, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. He practices in the areas of public and private fundraising, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies. He has also acted for companies listed in multiple jurisdictions. Mr Stephenson has wide experience and has acted on behalf of companies in industry sectors covering mining and resources, financial markets, pay TV retailing, mobile telephony, automated teller machines and listed investment companies and trusts, including in relation to other commercial, corporate, fundraising and compliance work.