Proactive - Interviews for investors

PolyNovo CEO Bruce Peatey talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its proprietary NovoSorb® polymer, the performance of the company, addressable market and what’s next for the company. PolyNovo (ASX: PNV) is a leading medical technology company transforming the management of complex wounds. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, it has international operations in the Un...

Solstice Minerals (ASX:SLS) CEO Nick Castleden talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about the company’s flagship Nanadie Copper-Gold Project. Solstice is a copper and gold explorer led by chairman Matthew Yates and managing director and CEO Nick Castleden, whose team brings broad experience spanning grassroots exploration through to mine development and operations. The com...

Dimerix CEO Dr Nina Webster talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its work in kidney disease and what $34 million in funding means for its clinical milestones. Dimerix Limited (ASX: DXB) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new therapies for kidney diseases with significant unmet medical need. The company’s lead program, DMX-200, is curr...

AIC Mines (ASX:A1M) Business Development & Investor Relations Manager Duncan Bristow spoke with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about progress at the Eloise Copper Mine and the development of the nearby Jericho Copper Project in North Queensland. Duncan discussed how Jericho will provide an additional source of ore for the Eloise processing plant, which is undergoing a staged exp...

NobleOak CEO Anthony Brown talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about partnerships, product launches and AI. NobleOak is an independent, multi award-winning, APRA-regulated Australian life insurance provider which has over 149-years’ history, dating back to one of the first benevolent societies in Australia, the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society of NSW. Noble...

Baby Bunting CEO Mark Teperson talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its strategic plan, record and its Sore of the Future. Baby Bunting Group Limited (ASX:BBN) is Australia’s largest specialty maternity and baby goods retailer. Supporting new and expectant parents since 1979, Baby Bunting operates throughout Australia and opened its first store in New Zealand in 2022...

Cogstate CEO and MD Brad O’Connor talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its central nervous system trials, its defining FY26 and what’s to come in FY27. Cogstate Ltd (ASX: CGS) is a neuroscience technology company optimising brain health assessments to advance the development of new medicines and to enable earlier clinical insights in healthcare. Cogstate technologies...

Pioneer Credit managing director Keith John talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about the company's approach to debt recovery, its FY26 results, and its growth targets as it works toward becoming Australia's number one purchaser of debt portfolios (PDP). Pioneer Credit (ASX: PNC) provides high quality, flexible, financial services support to help everyday Australians out...

Ocean Power Technologies Acting CEO Tracy Pagliara and Jason Weed – Chief Operating Officer joined Steve Darling from Proactive to provide an update on the company's growing sales opportunities, defense-sector momentum, and expanding portfolio of autonomous maritime technologies. Pagliara revealed that Ocean Power Technologies' qualified sales pipeline has now exceeded $150 million, while its curr...

Nine Mile Metals CEO Patrick Cruickshank joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss encouraging assay results from recent drilling at the company's Wedge Mine Project in New Brunswick’s prolific Bathurst Mining Camp, further demonstrating the strength and continuity of the volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization system. The latest results come from drill hole DDH WD-26-14, which was...

Nextech3D.ai CEO Evan Gappelberg joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's growing commercial traction across its software portfolio, highlighted by approximately $1 million in new customer contract value and 180 new customer agreements signed between January 1 and September 23, 2026. Gappelberg explained that the new customer contract value reflects the aggregate value of agree...

Total Graphite Plc Chairman Christian Dennis joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss significant exploration success at the company's Vatomina graphite project in Madagascar, where recent drilling has returned graphite grades of up to 18.6% carbon, substantially higher than the 2.5% to 3% material currently being processed through the existing plant. Dennis said the results have the potenti...

Starpharma CEO speaks with Proactive at the ASX SMIDcaps Conference Starpharma CEO Cheryl Maley talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its dendrimer technology, oncology treatments and FY26. Starpharma (ASX: SPL, US OTC: SPHRY) is an innovative biotechnology company with two decades of experience in advancing dendrimer technology from the lab to the patient. Our missio...

Avecho Biotechnology CEO Paul Gavin talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its Phase 3 study into insomnia and its proprietary drug delivery system. Avecho Biotechnology Limited develops and commercialises innovative Human and Animal Health products using its proprietary drug delivery system called Tocopheryl Phosphate Mixture (TPM®). TPM is derived from Vitamin E usin...

Kingfisher Mining Ltd (ASX:KFM) managing director Chris Bittar spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's strategy to transition from an exploration story towards a near-term development story, led by its high-grade Copper Blow copper-gold project around 20 kilometres south of Broken Hill. Bittar said recent drilling at Copper Blow has confirmed high-grade copper-gold mineralisatio...

Advanced Engineered Materials (ASX:AEM) executive chairman Richard Seville talked with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference about its aluminium technology, including its CLCP process, and its commercial progress. Advanced Engineered Materials is a preferred global supplier of ultra-pure aluminium derivatives, setting the benchmark for industry performance in terms of high purity, high...

Arizona Eagle Mining Corp CEO Kevin Reid joined Steve Darling from Proactive to provide an update on the company’s McCabe high-grade gold and silver project in Arizona, highlighting what he believes could be a transformational opportunity built around an extensive historic mining operation with significant existing infrastructure. Reid explained that the McCabe Mine was previously operated until t...

Century Lithium CEO Bill Willoughby joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s plans to develop a commercial-scale chlor-alkali (CA) plant designed to support both the growing critical minerals supply chain across the Western United States and the future development of its Angel Island Lithium Project in Nevada. Willoughby said the proposed facility represents a strategic opportu...

Orthocell Ltd (ASX:OCC, OTC:ORHHF) managing director and CEO Paul Anderson spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company recording its first Remplir sales in Thailand, expanding the global commercial footprint of its nerve repair product. Anderson said the milestone forms part of Orthocell's strategy to continually expand its international presence, with Remplir now generating revenue a...

Aruma Resources Ltd (ASX) managing director Grant Ferguson talked with Proactive about progress across the company’s exploration portfolio, including drilling at the Tillex Copper-Silver Project in Ontario’s Timmins mining district and ongoing work around the Fiery Creek Copper Project in Queensland’s Mt Isa copper belt. Ferguson said drilling was continuing to progress well, with the company work...

American Rare Earths Chief Development Officer Andrew Conover joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s first certified assay results from the initial six HQ core holes completed as part of its 2026 Feasibility Study drilling program at the Cowboy State Mine within the Red Mountain Project in Wyoming. Conover said the results continue to validate the strength and continuity of t...

Nextech3D.ai CEO Evan Gappelberg joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the launch of KATE, short for Krafty AI Training Expert, a new AI-powered Training Intelligence platform designed to modernize workforce training, employee onboarding, compliance education and customer learning programs. Gappelberg said KATE represents the next phase of the company's artificial intelligence strategy, c...

Power Metallic Mines CEO Terry Lynch joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the first assay results from the company’s Summer 2026 drilling campaign at its flagship Lion discovery, highlighting evidence that the high-grade polymetallic deposit continues well beyond the limits of the current Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE). Lynch explained that drilling prior to the summer program was large...

Lightning Minerals Ltd (ASX:L1M, FRA:YZ1) managing director Troy Brice spoke with Proactive's Stpehen Gunnion about the expanding tungsten system at the company's Warby Project in North Queensland, where recent exploration has significantly increased the interpreted scale of mineralisation. Brice said work using modern exploration techniques is revealing a broader mineralised system extending beyo...

Dune Oil CEO Scott Lower joined Steve Darling from Proactive to to provide a corporate update, discussing the company's recent financing success, its transition to a new OTCQB trading symbol and the next phase of development at its M47 oil exploration project. Lower said Dune Oil has raised more than $3 million this year, providing the capital needed to advance key project milestones and strengthe...