Board and Management
Zane Lewis
Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Lewis is a principal and joint founder of corporate advisory firm SmallCap Corporate, which specialises in corporate advice and compliance administration to public companies.
He provides the board with a wealth of knowledge obtained from his diverse financial and corporate experience in previous appointments.
Mr Lewis is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and is a Non-Executive Director of Lion Energy Limited and Kingsland Global Limited.
David Lenigas
Executive Director
Mr Lenigas is a mining engineer with a Western Australian First Class Mine Managers Certificate.
He has extensive corporate experience at chairman and chief executive officer level on many of the world’s leading stock exchanges overseeing multiple business sectors
His specific knowledge of the diamond industry, in particular heading up diamond operations in Angola, South Africa, and Indonesia, will benefit Odessa as it moves towards exploring and developing its diamond assets in the Kimberley.
Lisa Wells
Non-Executive Director
Ms Wells has 26 years’ experience as an exploration geologist working across various commodities including diamonds, bulk commodities, gold and base metals.
Lisa holds a BAppSc. (Geology) from Curtin University. Ms Wells was a Senior Geologist at United Kimberley Diamonds where the Phillips Range diamond bulk sampling program at Aries South in the Central Kimberleys was undertaken.
Ms Wells has significant experience with environmental and permitting approvals as well as on-ground coordination of the trial mining operation, feasibility studies and project management in a range of commodities include diamonds, gold, phosphate and base metals.
Lisa is currently also a non-executive Director of Territory Minerals, a gold company with projects in North Queensland.
Robbie Featherby
Company Secretary
Mr Featherby is a corporate advisor at SmallCap Corporate, a boutique corporate advisory firm specialising in providing company secretarial, CFO and transaction management services involving both listed and unlisted companies.
Mr Featherby is also the Company Secretary of Victory Goldfields Limited (ASX:1VG) and Cosmos Exploration Limited (ASX:C1X).
Grant Boxer
Project Development Advisor
Mr Grant Boxer is a highly experienced diamond specialist exploration and mining geologist based in Perth, with over 40 years’ experience in diamond discovery in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Mr Boxer dedicated 20 years with CRA Exploration, Argyle Diamonds and Rio Tinto Exploration group of companies on diamond exploration predominantly in Australia. Importantly, Mr Boxer has ten years of mine evaluation and development experience at the Argyle Diamond Mine and associated alluvial deposits. For the past 20 years, Mr Boxer has worked as a consultant geologist for numerous companies working in a variety of commodities including diamonds, iron ore, manganese and base metals in Australia and overseas (Brazil, China, Greenland, India and Tanzania).
