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Richard Tinsley

Mr. Tinsley is an engineer/minerals economist/banker with some 25 years experience, mostly as a strategic/financial advisor or as the lead banker on numerous transactions - at last count in 33 countries. He has worked in five countries -- Ireland, Canada, USA, U.K., and now Australia.

Richard started studying Quantity Surveying before graduating in Engineering with honours, magna cum laude, from Michigan Technological University followed by a Master of Science in Mineral Economics from Columbia University, New York, with a graduate citiation. He has conducted post-graduate research into economics and technology in project development and has studied econometrics.

In the finance field, Richard has been project finance director at:

	Continental Bank (Chicago), a commercial/trading bank
	European Banking Company (London), a consortium merchant bank
	Prudential-Bache Capital Funding (Sydney), a Wall Street investment bank
	Indosuez Australia (Sydney, Australia), a French merchant banque

Projects have ranged from a US$1.2billion steel mill in Australia; a US$250 million financing of an oil refinery and cogen power plant in Papua New Guinea; a 17km light rail project in Asia; a $1billion power station development in Asia; to a $400 million fertiliser development (with railway) in Sri Lanka -- all in the lead/advisor role.

An author on numerous topics in mineral economics and project finance, Richard was the Senior Editor of Finance for the Minerals Industry, a landmark publication by the Society of Mining Engineers ("SME") of the USA. Richard teaches short courses on project finance for Euromoney / DCGardner and published a Practical Introduction to Project Finance in 1996 (revised in 2000).. He has also developed a CD-ROM (3 disks) on Project Finance and an advanced book on Project Finance (in 2000 too).

As a co-founder of Asia Pacific Power, Richard Tinsley is also in the business of power station development with capability for conceiving, framing, structuring, and documenting every aspect of a power station from the business concept through to the technical and financial analysis and the financing itself. This includes fuel sourcing and PPA strategy and tariff negotiations.

His professional memberships include:

Australian Institute of Company Directors

Company Director's Diploma

Institute of Petroleum

Society of Mining Engineers ("SME"), USA

Chairman,Australia, International Advisory Committee

Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Chartered Engineer, Fellow

Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre

Visiting Fellow (throughout Asia)

He serves as a strategic adviser and independent director for companies active in the resources, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

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