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- Astron Corporation (ATR) has appointed Tiger Brown as Managing Director, effective immediately
- Tiger will be taking over from Kang Rong, who has been serving as Managing Director since December 2019
- Kang will remain Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer of the company and will focus on global sales and marketing
- Tiger was appointed as a Director of Astron in December 2019 and has had responsibility for direct supervision of the company for the past few months
- Astron has ended the day in the grey and shares have been trading at 23 cents since February 11
Astron Corporation (ATR) has appointed Tiger Brown as Managing Director, effective immediately.
Tiger will be taking over from Kang Rong who has been serving as Managing Director since December 2019.
Kang will remain Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer of the company and will focus on global sales and marketing.
“The board has been impressed with Tiger’s capabilities and drive since his appointment to the board as Executive Director,” Chairman Gerard King commented.
“He has overseen a substantial body of work as part of the company’s prime focus to move the Donald mineral sands project, in Victoria, to commercialisation,” he said.
Tiger was appointed as a Director of Astron in December 2019 and has been directly supervising the company for the past few months.
He studied economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
“It is an honour to lead Astron through its next stage, the principal focus of which is progressing a body of work to a definitive feasibility study stage and associated detailed project economics, sufficient to support development of the Donald mineral sands project,” Tiger said.
“Donald will represent an important, globally significant new source of mineral sands including rare earth production,” he added.
Astron has ended the day in the grey and shares have been trading at 23 cents since February 11. The company has a $28.16 million market cap.
