Directors & Management

William (Bill) Bloking

FAICD BSc Mechanical Engineering (Magna cum Laude)

Non-executive Chairman

Bill has more than 45 years of experience in the energy and minerals sector. Until 2007, he was President of Australia/Asia Gas at BHP Billiton Petroleum and, prior to that, he spent 24 years with ExxonMobil in a variety of senior executive roles in Asia, Europe, South America, and the USA. He is currently the Managing Director of Australia Asia Energy Pty Ltd and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD). Bill previously held the position of Non-Executive Chairman in Nido Petroleum Limited, Transerv Energy Limited, Norwest Energy NL, the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority, Cambodia Energy Limited, Cool Energy Limited, and Cullen Wines (Australia) Pty Limited. He was also the Vice Chairman of the Australia China Business Council and a Non-Executive Director of the John Holland Group, Miclyn Express Offshore Limited, Prominence Energy NL, the Australian Petroleum Exploration and Production Association, the Lions Eye Institute and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Patrick Say

BSc(Hons) (Geol), Grad Cert (App Fin), MAusIMM

Executive Director

Pat is a graduate of RMIT University in Victoria in Applied Geology (Hons).  He has 20+ years’ mining industry experience, including 10 years as Chief Geologist with Rex Minerals Limited, where he led the geological team which delineated and evaluated the Hillside copper-gold deposit through to Feasibility Study level. Pat worked on the Mt Keith nickel mine in Western Australia with WMC, and within the South Australian copper-gold industry with OZ Minerals Limited on the Prominent Hill copper-gold operation, where he managed the Resource Development team. Prior to Allegro, Pat worked with the team which evaluated and acquired, for Rex Minerals, the Hog Ranch gold project in Nevada, USA.

Pat has strong leadership and project management skills, along with valuable industry experience in a broad range of relevant areas such as exploration geology, ore definition, financial evaluation, grade control processes and mining.

Richard Grauaug

BJuris LLB GDAFI ASIA GDACG FGIA FCG (CS, CGP)

Non-executive Director

Richard is a legal practitioner and was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor in Western Australia in 1987. He is a director of his own law practice, Richard Simon Legal, in Perth, which provides legal services to mining & energy companies. He has practiced as a solicitor for over 30 years, including as an in-house lawyer and prior to that in top tier private firms. His areas of practice include commercial agreements, debt and capital raisings, farm-ins, joint ventures, technology transactions, general corporate and commercial matters and corporate governance. Richard is also experienced in mergers, acquisitions and project development. His legal and commercial experience extends to both Australian and overseas jurisdictions, including the legal function and in-house counsel role for a number of Australian as well as multinational companies.

Richard graduated in Jurisprudence and Law at the University of Western Australia and holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment with the Securities Institute of Australia and has postgraduate qualifications in Applied Corporate Governance, is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a Chartered Governance Professional, a Chartered Secretary and a Fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute. He is a member of the Law Society of Western Australia and various other professional bodies. From 1997 to 2008 he held various positions, including directorships with Halliburton Energy Services  covering Australasian, South East Asian and African jurisdictions during which period he was based in Australia, then Africa, including Egypt, for several years. From 2008 to 2010 he was Senior Legal Counsel with Apache Energy in Perth. He was also a former director and founding shareholder of Torrens Mining Limited (ASX:TRN) from its establishment in 2014. At Torrens he was a key part of the team there working towards its initial public offering and listing on the ASX in January 2021 until the successful takeover by emerging copper explorer and developer Coda Minerals Limited (ASX:COD) which was completed in the first half of 2022.

Ben Smith

Company Secretary

Ben is a Chartered Accountant with experience across company secretarial, corporate advisory and financial management and reporting of ASX listed companies. Ben is an employee of Mining Corporate Pty Ltd, where he has been actively involved in numerous corporate transactions and as company secretary of various listed and unlisted entities.