Michael Gray
Managing Director
Michael has been Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Bandanna Energy Limited (ASX: BND) since March 2012.
Prior to this role he was CEO of Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd, an incorporated joint venture between Peabody Energy and Gloucester Coal Limited. In that role, Michael had overall responsibility for development of the Middlemount project from exploration project to operating mine, the first Greenfield coal project developed in Queensland since 2007.
Prior to this, Michael held a number of senior and executive roles at Macarthur Coal since 2005. From 2007 he was Executive General Manager - Projects and Infrastructure where he was responsible for the overall management of exploration and project feasibility activities and management of long-term infrastructure requirements and Government relations.
Before joining Macarthur Coal, Michael held senior project development roles with the Port of Brisbane Corporation and the Qld Government’s Office of the Coordinator-General.
He has more than 20 years experience in the planning and development of major mining and infrastructure projects and has extensive involvement in resource feasibility and development, project finance, project execution, infrastructure development, environmental management and Native Title issues.
He is a graduate of the Australian Company Director’s Course and was the inaugural winner of the Talbot Family Foundation International Company Directors Scholarship.