Our Executive Management Team

Mr. Jonathan Corotan is the current Chief Executive Officer of PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. He is an accountant by profession and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of New England in Sydney, Australia and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy from the Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

He is a Certified Practicing Accountant and was given the recognition in the year 2000 for attaining the highest examination result in the CPA PNG Business Law Exam. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Public Accountants in Melbourne, Australia and a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments in the United Kingdom.

Apart from his affiliations and memberships from accounting organizations. Mr. Jonathan Corotan is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a full time member of the Governance Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Management.

In his early working career, Jonathan Corotan was employed by Deloitte Touche Tomatsu under the Assurance and Advisory Division as Audit Manager and was in-charge of various audit client portfolios in both large and medium sized companies. During his employment with Deliotte, he was privileged to be seconded to work with Deloitte offices in Australia where he gained vast experience in the field of auditing for the furtherance of his skills and for his professional development.

Mr. Corotan was the former Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of Eurest Group of Companies in Papua New Guinea and held the position for 15 years. He was also a director of various Eurest companies in Papua New Guinea up until 2015 when Compass Group UK and Australia decided to close their operations in Papua New Guinea, after which he resigned from his directorship and from his position as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of the Group.

Despite the closure of Eurest Operations in Papua New Guinea, his fighting spirit and optimistic outlook spurred him to convert what seemed like a bleak situation into a golden opportunity to assist the landowners from the Kutubu, Gobe, Hides and Kikori regions in the formation of the company now known as PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. after successfully acquiring majority of the contracts left by Eurest. In terms of educational accomplishments, Mr. Jonathan Corotan received various academic achievements awards for his excellent academic performance in the degree studies.

He was given the Gold Medal Awardee in the Accountancy Degree Program of the Divine Word University. He is also the recipient of the James Barnes Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in 1999. Mr. Corotan was also the recipient of the Bank of Papua New Guinea Award and the Silver Medal Award for Outstanding Academic Performance.

Born in the United Kingdom, Mr. Stephen Curry completed school in his hometown of Alton Hampshire before embarking on a career in Hospitality after completing his 7061 and 7062 qualifications with the City and Guilds of London Institute and a diploma in Hotel and Catering Management. In 1990, he proceeded to become a qualified member of the British Institute of Inn keeping, British Institute of Environmental Health Officers and a certified Hotel and catering trainer in 1995.

Stephen then proceeded to work in the United Kingdom for a multinational British hotel and restaurant company providing large-scale hotel, leisure and hospitality operational services support throughout the South of England.

After emigrating to Australia in 2001, Stephen expanded his experience in the hotel and hospitality management industry in Central Queensland in order to expand his knowledge and experience in large scale and remote location service support operations before joining Compass Group, the world’s largest contract food service company in 2008.

While with Compass Group, Stephen relocated his place of employment to Papua New Guinea in 2011. He held various senior positions throughout the country. In October 2015, Stephen joined the team of PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. a proudly Papua New Guinea owned company where he has held the position of Chief Operations Officer.

Mr. Fred Nana is a Certitied Practicing Accountant and Associate Member of CPA PNG. Originally from the Central Province, Mr. Nana has more than 20 years of experience in the Camp and Catering Industry. He has worked with camp and catering companies contracted to some of the major mining, gas and drilling companies in the country such as Ok Tedi Mining Limited and Oil Search (PNG) Limited now known as SANTOS, Talisman and High Arctic Energy Services Ltd.

Throughout his career in finance, Mr. Nana started work as a Finance Officer, then as a site project accountant. He went on to become a finance Manager and group accountant before becoming the Chief Financial Officer of a successful Landowner company - PNG Mining and Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd.

Mr. Nana was one of the few successful candidates selected by Ok Tedi Mining Limited straight after graduating from school. He started his career as a Finance Officer in the mining company based in Tabubil, Western Province. After three years of service with Ok Tedi Mining Limited, he secured a position with Poon Catering Limited as a site Project Accountant. Later on, Poon Catering Limited was taken over by Eurest South Pacific Limited who changed their company name to Eurest (PNG) Catering Services Limited.

It was in the late nineties when Eurest PNG) Catering Services Limited handed over the Ok Tedi Mining catering contract to Fubian Catering Services Lid, a 100% landowner company. Mr. Nana became the first national account with a team of four staff member in cor Mrance team to witness the bith and growth of Local Landowner Company - FIS.

Since the changeover Mr. Nana played a significant role together with Eurest site management to set-up on site the financial structure and procedures, implementation of accounting software and training as well as the payroll since Fubilan Catering Limited was a stand-alone entity.

In 2007, Mr. Nana resigned from Fubilan Catering Services Ltd. and moved back to Port Moresby, securing a position as the company accountant for Western Tug & Barge Limited, an Australian Shipping Company contracted to Ok Tedi Mining Limited and was with the company for well over three years.

He was later offered the role of Finance Manager by the Chief Financial Officer of Eurest PNG Catering And Services Ltd. Mr. Nana remained with the company until they closed their operations in Papua New Guinea in 2015.

In October 2015, when PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. was incorporated as a 100% landowner company contracted to Oil Search (PNG) Limited now SANTOS group. Mr. Nana was retained as the Group Accountant, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. In mid-year 2021 Mr. Nana was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer for PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services.

Joe Siune Angra obtained a Degree in Business Accounting from the Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea in the year 1996. Mr. Angra is a current member of the Certified Public Accountants, Papua New Guinea. With more than twenty years of professional work experience in both the public and private sectors.

For almost ten years Mr. Angra worked for Deloitte and Star Business Consultants in Papua New Guinea. Firstly, with Deloitte chartered Accounting Firm as a senior tax consultant. After Deloitte, he was employed by Star Business Consultant, a national accounting firm in Papua New Guinea as a senior manager in charge of business and taxation services within the firm.

Mr. Angra was also previously engaged by AusAID through Cardno Acil as a regional accountant for the Momase and Southern Regions of Papua New Guinea by building the financial and operational capacity of the PNG Electoral Commission for the new LPV Voting System during the 2007 and 2012 General Elections. Furthermore, he was involved in successfully implementing the LPV system during the 2007 and 2012 General Elections.

Prior to joining PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. in October 2015 and becoming one of their pioneer employees, he was first employed by Eurest (PNG) Catering and Services Ltd. as a tax and compliance manager from 2013 to 2014.

A New Zealand-born Australian citizen; Mr. Joshua Ratcliffe, has a nearly 30-year connection both personally and professionally with Papua New Guinea.

Starting his early school years in Papua New Guinea he later then relocated to Australia to complete his studies.

Now, highly skilled in remote life support services and operations, crisis management, logistics and people management, Joshua is currently serving as the General Manager for PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd.

Upon completing his studies in commercial cookery, Joshua later went on to gain valuable experience in the food service industry in multiple five star hotels and restaurants throughout Queensland. and moved into new project development and operations management in the world-renowned Queensland seafood industry.

In 2010, during the beginning of the construction phase of PNG LNG managing catering and services, Mr. Ratcliffe move to the remote FIFO sector of Papua New Guinea during the early construction phases for The Alliance Group. This enabled Joshua to merge his knowledge of operations, food service and new projects as well as reconnect with his roots in Papua New Guinea.

Joshua later moved on to work alongside many of Papua New Guineas biggest companies in drilling exploration and oil & gas production as well as Papua New Guinea and Australian immigration & government projects to provide remote support services on behalf of Eurest PNG, a subsidiary of The Compass Group.

Joshua has operated many successful LANDCO-owned support contracts that are providing support to projects operated by Chiyoda & Japan Gas, Exxon Mobil, Santos (PNG) formerly Oil Search (PNG), Talisman Energy Ltd. Horizon Oil Ltd. Inter Oil Ltd. and Ok-Tedi Mining Ltd. in the Western Province, Central Province, Manus Island, Gulf, Hela and Southern Highlands Provinces.

As PNG Mining And Petroleum Hospitality Services Ltd. was formed, Joshua played a pivotal role in ensuring that the contracts, people and systems on the ground were being protected and ratified and the level of service expectations were initiated and maintained from the very day the contracts were handed over.

Having been with the company since its formation and having overseen nearly all of its field operation from the very beginning, Joshua is both personally and professionally passionate about empowering and motivating young Papua New Guineans to reach their true potential and to continuously work to show that Papua New Guinean LANDCO’s can operate to a globally-recognized standard to assist in gaining international investment in Papua New Guinea and providing secure and reliable outcomes and opportunities for the future generations of the traditional landowners.

Now living in Cairns, Australia with his family, Joshua in his own time, is personally passionate about food, travel, technology and media creation. He is also a well-travelled and qualified professional photographer.