Bathurst Resources Limited announced that Malcolm Macpherson has retired as chairman to hand over to Wellington based Toko Kapea. Mr. Macpherson assumed the role of non-executive chairman of Bathurst in November 2013 with the intention of retiring once the board was fully restructured. He had been non-executive director since December 2010.

In April 2015 Bathurst announced the appointment of Richard Tacon as executive director and Peter Westerhuis and Russell Middleton as non-executive directors. Toko Kapea will take over as Chairman. Toko is a Wellington based commercial lawyer, consultant and director, specialising in iwi and Maori development matters.

He has served as non-executive director on the Bathurst board since May 2013. Toko is a director of Tula Group Limited and a partner in Tula Legal. He has worked at Chapman Tripp, Meridian Energy, and in legal roles in-house at St.George Bank NZ and Bank of New Zealand.