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Burdekin Pacific Limited
ASX Announcement 26 April 2005 1
Burdekin Pacific Limited A.C.N. 059 329 519
Level 2 BGC Centre 28 The Esplanade Perth WA 6000
Phone: +61 8 9322 6045 Fax:+61 8 9481 5557
Email:[email protected]
Enquiries regarding this announcement can be directed toeither: Mr Jerome G Vitale Director and Chief Executive Officer or Ms Susan J Field Executive Director and Company Secretary
ASX Code: “BKS”

26 April 2005

Appointment of Non Executive Director / Chairman
The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Kim W McGrath as a non-executive director and Chairman of the Board.
A biographical note on Mr McGrath is attached.

Mr McGrath will take over the position of non executive director chairman from Mr Martin Bennett, who will remain on the board in the capacity of non executive director. The Board wishes to acknowledge Mr Bennett’s valuable contribution in his capacity as Chairman over the past 12 months.

The Board welcomes the international resource financing and corporate experience brought to the Company by Mr McGrath and looks forward to working closely with him to advance the Company’s objectives.

Yours faithfully
Burdekin Pacific Limited
Susan J Field
Director and Company Secretary
Burdekin Pacific Limited

Kim McGrath – BEc (Hons) LLB FAICD FTIA CPA, Age 50

Kim McGrath is an internationally experienced resources finance and investment banking executive.

He is the Managing Director of Delta Corporate Finance Pty Limited, a specialist advisory group based in Sydney with active business interests in Australia and the UK.

His prior positions in Australia have included senior roles with Comalco and ICL, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Bank of America Australia, General Counsel with Bell Resources responsible for negotiating international lines of finance, business acquisitions and strategy and development and General Manager Strategy and Planning with Industrial Equity Limited.

During the 1990’s Mr McGrath worked in London on the restructure of companies in Eastern Europe and particularly on major operations in CIS metals and oil trading, and associated financing in London and Geneva, prior to which he was recruited by a major corporate group as Executive Director and CEO to implement an international scheme of arrangement involving the large scale debt to equity conversions, major asset dispositions and the introduction of appropriate management planning and control measures for over 350 subsidiaries worldwide.

In addition to his business and legal qualifications Mr McGrath has completed the Advanced Management Programme at Oxford University, is a CPA and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. His other directorships include SSH Medical Limited of which he is Chairman, and listed property group Taragon Limited the manager and responsible entity of the listed Taragon Property Trust.




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