Manuka Resources Ltd. announced the appointment of executive director, Mr. Alan J Eggers as of 1 February 2023. Mr. Eggers is a geologist and experienced company Director with over 40 years of Australian and international resource company experience. He brings to the Board exceptional commercial expertise and was the founding director and headed Summit Resources Limited which they built from IPO listing on the NZX in 1987 into an ASX top 200 company and an ultimate takeover by Paladin Energy for AUD 1.2 billion in 2007.

He holds a number of private directorships. Alan holds Bachelor of Science, Honours and Masters of Science degrees from Victoria University of Wellington. He's a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), a member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and Geological Society of Australia (GSA).

Mr. Eggers was executive chairman of Trans-Tasman Resources Limited (TTR) now acquired by, and a wholly owned subsidiary of, MKR as announced to the market on 11 November 2022.