Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Key points:

• Tellus expands its Board with the appointment of Dr Nikki Williams as a Director
• Nikki has extensive mining, energy, chemical, fund management, waste and advocacy experience

Tellus Holdings Ltd (Tellus) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Nikki Williams as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the company with immediate effect.

Nikki is a highly successful business executive and industry ambassador with diverse experience in the areas of mining, energy, chemical, fund management, waste, industry policy and political advocacy and she serves on a wide variety of international and Australian Boards, along with government and university advisory panels.

Nikki’s mining, industry policy and political advocacy experience includes senior roles at the NSW Minerals Council and Australian Coal Association. She was recently voted in the top five most influential women in mining.

Nikki’s energy experience includes senior roles with Shell, Exxon and Esso in Australia and overseas.

Nikki has specific waste industry expertise and a deep understanding of the issues affecting Australian industries wrestling with the growing problem of waste management from her role with the Victorian Government’s Hazardous Waste Consultative Committee.

Nikki’s fund management experience includes senior roles managing a $5 Billion Superannuation Fund, $1 Billion Low Emission Technology Fund and a $0.5 Billion workers compensation, mines rescue and health business.

In addition to a demanding international corporate and industry career, Nikki has supported numerous community and scientific research efforts.

She remains an Ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, was the inaugural patron of the NSW Women in Mining Network and is a former member of the CSIRO Business Advisory Board.

“We are very excited by the positive endorsement of having Nikki join the Tellus Board. She brings a fantastic depth of experience to the team and with her knowledge of industry and Government, is an invaluable addition to the leadership of the business” Tellus Holdings’ Managing Director Duncan van der Merwe said.

“Our continued success is driven by the ability to bring outstanding and talented people to the Tellus team and we are looking forward to Nikki’s contribution on the Board.”

Tellus Holdings Ltd (“Tellus”) is an Australian project development company. Tellus’ flagship projects are a proposed underground rock salt mine with a complementary backfill business supporting the resource sector in the Northern Territory and a proposed kaolin mine with a complementary backfill business supporting the resource sector in the Western Australia. The commodity business involves the export of edible, industrial salt and kaolin mostly to Asia. The proposed complementary backfill business involves the safe recycle, recovery, storage and disposal in voids created by mining – as is common in the UK and EU, the USA and Canada.

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Dr Nikki Williams has expertise in the areas of mining, energy, chemical, fund management, waste, industry policy and political advocacy and serves on a wide variety of international and Australian Boards, along with government and university advisory panels.

Nikki’s mining, industry policy and political advocacy experience includes senior roles at the NSW Minerals Council and Australian Coal Association.

Some of her memberships have included roles on energy and mineral related advisory committees for the Federal government, NSW government and CSIRO.

She is an inaugural Patron of the Women in Mining (NSW) Network. She was recently voted in the top five most influential women in mining. Nikki is an ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Nikki has also been on a committee for the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Community;

Nikki’s energy experience includes senior roles with Shell and Exxon in African, Asian and Europe. Nikki commenced her career with Esso in the Bass Straight (and then to a corporate role in Sydney) as an Industrial Relations Officer. Nikki is a former member of the World Energy Council, the Fund Board of the International Baccalaureate Organisation and an accredited energy expert with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Nikki’s chemical experience includes senior roles at the Plastics and Chemicals Industries Association and Chair of the Federal Government’s Industry Advisory Board for Chemicals.

Nikki’s fund management experience includes senior roles managing a $5 Billion Superannuation Fund, $1 Billion Low Emission Technology Fund and a $0.5 Billion workers compensation, mines rescue and health business.

Nikki has specific waste industry experience and a deep understanding of the issues affecting Australian industries wrestling with the growing problem of waste management from her role with the Victorian Government’s Hazardous Waste Consultative Committee.

Nikki appears regularly on TV, radio and print interviews both here and overseas.

She is an accomplished public speaker in fora as diverse as industry related conferences in Australia, Europe and Asia, think tanks such as the Sydney Institute, the Centre for Independent Studies and the Grattan Institute, the European parliament, the United Nations and the International Energy Agency.

Nikki has a BA Hons 1st Class in Politics and Industrial Relations and a Ph.D. in International Relations (UNSW) in the field of Terrorism.