Stephen is 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 and has over 14 years' corporate finance and public company management experience in the resources sector in Australia and Canada with various public companies. He is Chairman of boutique investment banking and funds management group Bizzell Capital Partners Pty Ltd and has been an Executive Director of Arrow Energy since 1999.