The Board

Directors

David Port
Executive Chairman

David Port qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant whilst with National Freight Company Limited where he rose to become Group Chief Accountant and Divisional Finance Director. Following three years at Northern Foods Plc as Finance Director of the dairy division, he joined British Fuels Limited as Finance Director and rose to Chief Executive and Chairman, leading the management buyout from British Coal during the privatisation process and disposing of the business profitably in a trade sale in 1997. Since then he has worked in a number of industries in the private and public sectors as either Chairman or Non-Executive Director. Currently, he is Chairman of Leach Colour, a large format graphics company and a Non-Executive Director of Inutec Limited, a nuclear waste consultancy and processing company. David has been Chairman of ATH since it started operations in 1998.

Alistair Black
Chief Executive

Alistair's career to date has been dedicated to working in the surface coal mining industry, having commenced his training with Coal Contractors Limited in 1986. Having progressed to various managerial positions with Coal Contractors, he moved to Rackwood Colliery Company in 1996 as Regional Manager before commencing employment with ATH in 1998.

Alistair has been an executive on the ATH Resources plc Board since the Company floated on AIM in 2004 and was appointed Chief Executive in July 2010 following the disposal of the ATH Regeneration assets from the Group.

Alistair gained his MBA from Heriot Watt University in 1999 and is currently Health & Safety Director for the Group.

Andrew Weatherstone
Finance Director And Company Secretary

Andrew Weatherstone, a chartered accountant, joined the board in October 2010. Having initially developed his career with KPMG, Andrew moved on to hold senior financial positions at Commercial Vehicle Systems Inc and Bostrom Plc and was Group Finance Director at Chapelthorpe Plc from 2003 until his appointment with ATH. In these roles, Andrew has been responsible for a wide range of strategic, operational and corporate finance projects.

Vaughan Williams
Non-Executive Director

After Exeter University, Vaughan Williams spent four years with British Steel from 1968 to 1972 before joining a predecessor company of BHP Minerals Europe Ltd responsible for coal sales in Europe, CIS, Middle East and Africa, mainly from the developing coal deposits in Queensland. In 1986 Vaughan moved to BHP Coal Australia Pty Ltd in Brisbane as Manager of marketing operations. After returning from Australia, he became Managing Director of BHP Minerals Europe Ltd covering a wide range of commodities. In 2000 he became Vice President Marketing of BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc where he remained until retiring in 2003. Since then he has been actively involved in farming in Oxfordshire. He joined the Group in 2004.

Tim Stokeld
Non-Executive Director

Tim has over 30 years' experience in finance, beginning his career as a trainee stockbroker with Middlesbrough-based Stancliffe Todd and Hodgson before taking up senior roles in leading financial companies such as Charterhouse, where he rose to be appointed Managing Director of Institutional Sales, Head of UK Equities and Head of Equities at CAI Chevreux. In 2002, Tim left CAI Chevreux to join Seymour Pierce Partners in 2003 as Head of Institutional Sales, a post he held for a period of four years. Following this time he had been with BlueOar Securities which he left in April 2009. Tim joined the Board of ATH as Non-executive Director in May 2009.

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