Stephen Bizzell
Non-Executive Director
Stephen Bizzell is the Chairman of boutique corporate advisory and funds management group Bizzell Capital Partners Pty Ltd., a firm which over the last 15 years has raised more than A$1.5 billion in equity capital for its associated entities (and which is the arranger of the Company’s Conditional Convertible Note facility). He is also the Chairman of ASX listed MAAS Group Holdings Ltd and Laneway Resources and a Non-executive Director of ASX listed Armour Energy Ltd, Renascor Resources Limited and Chairman of Strike Energy Ltd.
Mr Bizzell was an Executive Director of Arrow Energy Ltd from 1999 until its acquisition in 2010 by Shell and PetroChina for A$3.5 billion. He was instrumental in Arrow’s corporate and commercial success and its growth from a junior explorer to a large integrated energy company. He was a founding director of Bow Energy Ltd until its A$550 million takeover and was also a founding director of Stanmore Coal Ltd until its recent A$250 million takeover.
Mr Bizzell qualified as a Chartered Accountant and early in his career was employed in the Corporate Finance division of Ernst & Young and the Corporate Tax division of Coopers & Lybrand. He has had considerable experience and success in the fields of corporate restructuring, debt and equity financing, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr Bizzell has over 25 years’ corporate finance and public company management experience in the resources sector in Australia and Canada with various public companies, he is also the Chairman of Challenger Energy Audit Committee.