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Announcement regarding new appointments at acQuire

Date posted: 04/05/2009

On the 1st of May, 2009, Warren Cook took over as the Chief Executive Officer of acQuire.  Warren has been in a transition CEO role for the last three months. I will no longer be involved in CEO decision making or the functions of the CEO position. Warren will report to me in my role as Managing Director (Chairman).

Warren is replaced in the role of Global Implementation Manager and Regional Implementation Manager (Australia/Africa/Europe) by Alison Atkins. Alison has also been in a transition role, and officially starts in this position on the 1st of May, 2009.

This is a very happy occasion for me as I am leaving a role that I have been doing since 1993. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as CEO and I look forward to continuing in the roles of Managing Director and Manager of Commercial R&D (Including Commercial Product Manager).

Bill Withers
Managing Director

More about Warren Cook

Warren graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) Geology from the University of New England and has over 22 years experience in the mining industry in Australia and overseas.  He spent 12 years in operational roles as a mining geologist in precious and base metal open pit and underground mines. Warren worked for three years as a consulting geologist undertaking resource estimation, geological technical audits and geological database validation studies.

Warren joined acQuire (formerly Metech) in 2001 as a Mining Systems Analyst implementing the MineSight and acQuire technologies for operations worldwide. He became Manager of the Metech Mining Solutions Group where he was responsible for administration, scheduling, project and contract management and business development. Warren has been acQuire’s Global Implementation Manager for the past two and half years. Warren is a Fellow of the 2008 Leadership WA program.

More about Alison Atkins

Alison graduated with a B.Sc Geology from Curtin University of Technology, and has completed further studies, including a Masters Preliminary in Economic Ore Geology and Evaluation at the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Business Programming at the Spherion Institute. She is currently undergoing a Masters in Leadership and Management through Curtin University of Technology. Alison has over 17 years of experience in both the exploration and mining industries in Australia and Africa, working on grassroots projects through to underground resource interpretation and modelling, as well as database and GIS management.

Alison joined acQuire in 2000 as a Geological Data Analyst implementing the acQuire technologies for both exploration and mining clients worldwide. Over the past nine years, she has been involved in a large number of acQuire implementations including the project management of larger scale client installs. She has also been engaged in marketing and sales of the acQuire technology and both internal and external training development. Alison was the Portfolio Manager for a global acQuire client for the past year.