Senior Leaders

RAYMOND JAMES - MANAGING DIRECTOR

Qualifications:
BSc (Physics, Maths, Geology) University of NSW, FAICD, FAIM

Experience:
Ray is the Managing Director of Icon Energy, the Company he founded in 1993 and floated on the ASX in 1997. He worked with Chevron Perth and Chevron Houston from 1969-74 and with Gulf Oil from 1974-80. He was the Managing Director of Australian Hydrocarbons from 1980-81 and the Managing Director of Omega Oil from 1987-91.

Ray is the Director of the Advisory Board of the Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah in the USA and on the Griffith Business School Advisory Board at Griffith University.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves as a member of the Gold Coast Committee. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Director Since: 01/02/1993

KEVIN JIH - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Qualifications
BA, MBA, MAcc, PhD(Bond), CPA, MAICD

Experience
Dr. Jih joined Icon Energy as Deputy Chief Financial Officer in November 2008 and was promoted as Chief Financial Officer in July 2010. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration in 1994 and a Master of Accounting both from Bond University. In 2008 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting from Bond University. He is a Certified Practising Accountant and has wide experience in the private and public sectors specialising in management accounting, financial accounting, human resource management and corporate governance.

Dr. Jih has held numerous key positions as the Finance and HR Manager, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University, Australia;  Vice President of Tai-Chern Enterprise Co Ltd,  Vice President of Hong Yang Lease Finance Co Ltd, Taipei, Managing Consultant of MYC Group Co Ltd, Hong Kong and Business Consultant of Hualien Commercial Bank, Taipei. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, as well a member of the CPA Australia.

Director Since: 01/12/2011

ROSS MALLETT - COMPANY SECRETARY

Qualifications
JD, BBus, GDLP, FCIS, FCPA, MAICD

Experience
Ross Mallett is the Company Secretary of Icon Energy Limited. Ross is a lawyer who has acted as a Company Secretary and Governance Advisor for a number of large listed companies, mainly in the resources sector, for over 30 years.

Most recently Ross was Company Secretary for People’s Choice Credit Union and Principal of Governance Solutions Pty Ltd, a corporate governance consultancy business. Prior to that Ross held the roles of Company Secretary of Elders Limited and Deputy Company Secretary of BHP Billiton Ltd, WMC Limited and CRA Limited (now called Rio Tinto Ltd).

Ross is a Fellow,  former Director and National President of Chartered Secretaries Australia,  a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

JIM CARR - OPERATIONS MANAGER

Qualifications
BE (Honours in Mechanical Engineering) University of Adelaide

Experience
James has over 30 years of professional experience in petroleum engineering and supervision and in the management and implementation of innovative upstream technologies, including Slimhole Drilling, Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) and Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD).

He has worked with Santos (Adelaide and Brisbane) from 1980 to 2001 in Production Engineering, Petroleum Engineering and Drilling Departments. He joined Blade Energy Partners (USA) in 2002 and project managed several UBD/MPD projects including for RasGas, offshore Qatar, PDO onshore Oman, Shell onshore Brunei and offshore Malaysia, Conoco Phillips in San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Santos, Lakes Oil and Geodynamics (geothermal) projects in Australia. He has also consulted to Exxon Mobil (Indonesia), Chevron (USA) and Kuwait Oil Company.

He is a member of SPE and a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers Australia.

RICHARD HOLLIDAY - COMMERCIAL MANAGER

Experience
Mr Holliday joined Icon Energy as Commercial Manager in 2011.

Richard has held Executive positions with the Queensland Government, Gold Coast City Council, Queensland Rail and was the Chief Executive Officer, Surfers Paradise Alliance.

Prior to joining Icon Energy as Commercial Manager Richard was the Manager Media and Communications for Santos QLD where he was heavily involved in the early days of Coal Seam Gas (CSG) working on the Santos GLNG project. Richard was instrumental in developing Santos’ strategic marketing and advertising campaign focusing on delivering a “social licence to operate” and the coexistence of agribusiness and the CSG industry.

Working with Ministers across state and federal boundaries and Government legislators and regulators to deliver workable policy outcomes is an area that Richard excels in having been involved in many of the CSG policy outcomes that underpin the industry today.

Richard understands the impact of Government legislation and regulations and the commercial outcomes on the CSG/LNG industry.