Date Time Former CEO of van Eyk Research Pty Ltd charged with breaches of directors’ duties On 18 May 2021, Mr Mark Peter Thomas of Kanimbla, New South Wales, appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court charged with four counts of dishonestly using his position as a director or officer of a company with the intention of gaining an advantage for himself. ASIC alleges that between 31 January 2014 and 20 February 2014, Mr Thomas: – as an officer of van Eyk Research Pty Ltd (van Eyk Research) and director of a New Zealand-based subsidiary of van Eyk Research, Blueprint Investment Management Ltd (BIML), facilitated a nearly $5 million investment from BIML (BIML Investment);