Directors

Richard Jenkins, Executive Chairman

Mr Jenkins commenced work with Hill Samuel in 1979 in the Financial Markets Division. In 1986 Hill Samuel became Macquarie Bank and in the same year, Richard was appointed an executive director of the bank.

In 1990 he became the Head of the bank's Equities group which included institutional and retail stocking broking and proprietary trading activities. He steered the offshore growth for Macquarie Bank and oversaw the establishment of offices in both the western and eastern hemispheres. In 1992 he joined the Executive Committee of the Bank and in 2000 he became co-head of the investment bank.

In July 2001 he left Macquarie and in 2004 he set up Shell Cove Capital Management which holds an Australian Financial Services Licence. In 2018 Shell Cove established a fund that focuses on listed and unlisted small capitalisation stocks and the fund has been a shareholder of Range since mid-2018. Richard has spent extensive periods of time in Indonesia from 2010 until 2018. He brings with him a wide variety of business capabilities and experiences that will greatly enhance the prospect for success in the next phase of growth for Range International.

Christopher Fong, Executive Director

Mr Fong is an Australian with thirty years of business experience in Indonesia. In 1992 he was appointed country manager (Indonesia) for media services group YRN, followed by Vice President, Marketing overseeing offices in 6 countries. In 1998 he became a managing partner in a Singapore based communications business that experienced significate growth associated with the Indonesian market. Over the following ten years, Chris managed a diverse range of projects from debt restructuring, crisis management, consumer and brand development to democratic and environmental reform on behalf of multinational corporations, family-controlled conglomerates and government.

In 2009 the business was purchased by the Bakrie Group (Indonesia) with Chris taking up a new role as advisor to the Chairman, a position that he has maintained for the past ten years.

Stephen Bowhill, Managing Director

Stephen has over twenty-five years of business leadership experience with a proven track record and focus on sales growth and business transformation, having led and grown several businesses in Australia and run sales teams in Asia and Australia. Stephen is currently a Director of the Australian and Asian activities for VivoPower International PLC, a Nasdaq listed global solar developer (NASDAQ: VVPR), and serves on the Board of VivoPower’s Australian subsidiary companies(Aevitas, Kenshaw and J.A.Martin). Prior to VivoPower, he was Managing Director of an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed IT research company, IDEAS International (ASX:IDE). Within five years, he delivered a ten-fold increase in the company’s valuation and secured its sale to Gartner Inc.

Before this, Stephen ran a portfolio management software company, Garradin, which he successfully turned around - resulting in a doubling of the business within 3 years and a subsequent trade sale to Bravura, an ASX listed company. Stephen’s first position in Sydney, after relocation from Asia, was Regional Vice President, RBC Global Services, managing the sales and relationship management teams. Before moving to Australia, Stephen worked in Singapore and in Hong Kong distributing software for K-Tek International (acquired by Sungard). He was in London and Hong Kong prior to this with Financial Times Information.