Katherine is the Managing Director of GPX Airborne.
After graduating from Macquarie University with a BSc Geology and Geophysics, Katherine has been involved in the airborne geophysics industry as a client, a consultant and a manager of both data processing and airborne operations for many years.
Katherine has worked for Fugro Airborne Services, Geoterrex, World Geoscience and Lachlan Resources in a variety of regions including:
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Africa
- India
- Middle East
- Europe
Katherine joined GPX in 2004 as General Manager and has been largely responsible for the rapid growth and development of the companies current capacity. She was invited to join the board of directors and was elected as the Managing Director in early 2007.
Katherine is a member of the ASEG, AICD and also has a Grad Dip in Applied Finance and is also in the process of completing an MBA.
Greg is a founding director and shareholder of GPX Airborne.
Greg was the non executive chairman of the board prior to joining the management team in an executive capacity after a 6 year period as Commercial Manager for the Perth branch of the Australian Pipeline Trust.
Greg was also a founding director of World Geoscience and an executive director of Aerodata Holdings and has extensive business development and operations experience in many countries throughout:
- South East Asia
- India
- Africa
- Americas
Greg has over 25 years experience in airborne geophysics operations management and business development including a 5 year period based in Houston as World Geoscience director responsible for the Americas.
Greg is a member of the ASEG, AIG, Petroleum Club and ACID organizations
Bob Blizzard is the Airborne Operations Manager of GPX Airborne.
Bob brings over 25 years of varied experience in the oil and mineral exploration industry.
Bob began his career with Plessey as an electronics engineer in 1974 and has since worked for Western Geophysical, World Geoscience and Fugro Airborne and managed some of the largest airborne geophysical survey projects ever undertaken.
Bob has extensive international experience including project management in:
- Libya
- Middle East
- Libya
- Algeria
- Central and sub-saharan Africa
- Pacific
- Indonesia
Bob is a member of IFAP.
Mike Barrett is the Senior Technical Supervisor for GPX Airborne.
Mike started his career as a technician on a helicopter magnetic survey in Canada over 30 years ago.
Mike has since been directly involved in many of the technological innovations in the airborne geophysics industry and he has focused on airborne data acquisition, navigation guidance systems and electromagnetic design, development and system installation.
Mike has worked at various times for the following companies before joining the GPX team in 2004:
- Geoterrex
- Picodas
- Questor
- WorldGeoscience
- Tesla 10
- Kevron
Mike has extensive international experience having been involved in airborne surveys in over 35 countries during his career.
Joe Kita is the Processing Manager for GPX Airborne.
Joe graduated from Curtin with a BSc App (Geophysics) in 1983 and has extensive industry experience as a geophysicist and airborne data processor having worked with CRA (now Rio), Tesla 10, World Geoscience, Saudi Aramco and Hosking Geophysical over the past 20 years.
Joe has a practical, hands on understanding of data acquisition and processing issues having worked in the field managing quality control procedures on many large projects in a number of different countries during his career.
These include:
- Canada
- Indonesia
- Libya
- Saudi Arabia
Joe is an active member of the ASEG.
