SMC Management

Sijun (Tony) Cheng
Managing Director

Tony Cheng has represented Sinosteel Australia Mining Pty Ltd. since Nov 2005 and is also the MD of Sinosteel Ocean Capital Pty Ltd. He holds a Master’s Degree in the international finance. He joined Sinosteel Corporation in 1985 and has had comprehensive responsibility for major projects including the importation of technology for steel making and mining equipment for all major Chinese steel mills. Mr Cheng has also been general manager of the Sinosteel Investment Company, responsible for Sinosteel investment activities and mergers within China.

Stuart Griffiths
Chief Executive Officer

Stuart has over 25 years of extensive international business experience in; mining, supply chain management, off-shore manufacturing and corporate restructuring across a diverse range of industries including fast moving consumable goods (FMCG), food processing, merchandising, manufacturing & commodities trading.

Stuart has lead SMC’s commercial and legal functions through infrastructure development, mine development, mining and covered iron ore sales, joint-ventures development and local/state government negotiations. He has also held senior international management positions with listed multinational companies Kanematsu & Toyota Tsusho where he was responsible for developing project execution strategies and conducting due diligence on projects throughout North America, Asia and Europe in respect to procurement, supply-chains, logistics and outsourcing manufacturing.

Stuart is on the Executive Council of The Chamber of Minerals and Energy (W.A) and has been a board member of the ‘Business Law and Regulation Policy Committee’ at the Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) and while playing in the AFL with the Richmond FC he completed a bachelor of business degree majoring in international trade and economics. Stuart also has an MBA from the University of Melbourne.

Ti (John) Wang
Finance Manager and Company Secretary

Ti Wang joined Sinosteel Australia Mining Pty Ltd in Nov 2005, and is responsible for the financing issues of Sinosteel Ocean Capital Pty Ltd and SMC. He holds a Master’s Degree in international finance from China and a Master Degree in Accounting from Curtin University. Ti’s experience includes a JV position as the finance representative of JV studies, acting as the Secretary of Policy Committee of JV, looking after the basic accounting, taxation, financing and iron ore trading. John was also involved in the M&A of Midwest Corporation Limited.

Ti’s experience includes a JV position as the finance representative of JV studies, acting as the Secretary of Policy Committee of JV, looking after the basic accounting, taxation, financing and iron ore trading. John was also involved in the M&A of Midwest Corporation Limited.

Paul Hogan
Exploration Manager

Paul holds an Applied Science in Applied Geology degree from RMIT with over 18 years of industry experience in gold, base metals, phosphate and more recently specialising in Iron ore. He has worked extensively throughout Australia and also other more challenging jurisdictions around the world. Paul has held positions including green-fields conceptual geology, resource definition, open cut mine geologist and underground production geologist.

He was part of the team to discover and build the mine at Lady Annie Copper Project and also added several million tonnes of iron ore to the BCIron Nullagine Project. As exploration manager he is the statutory appointee for all SMC tenements and leads a small business unit within the company.