CORPORATE DIRECTORY
Mr Ed Nealon
Non-executive Chairman
Mr Nealon, who is a geologist by background,
is the Chairman of the Board. He has
vast experience in the financing and development
of mining projects in many parts of the
world, including especially within Africa
and Asia. He was involved in the establishment
and growth of Aquarius Platinum Limited
and Sylvania Resources Limited and has
been a director of many publicly listed
companies.
Mr Scott Huntly
Managing Director
Mr Huntly, who is a Mining Engineer with
over 30 years' experience in the mining
industry, principally within South Africa,
heads the Company management and is based
in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has
extensive experience within government
in South Africa and working with several
exploration and mining companies within
South Africa (including Aquarius Platinum
Limited and Sylvania Resources Limited),
especially during the companies transition
from exploration to development.
Mr Adrian Griffin
Technical Director
An Australian trained mining professional with exposure to metal mining and processing throughout the world, Mr Griffin has been involved in the development of extraction technology and was a pioneer of the lateritic nickel processing industry. He specialises in mine management and production. Mr Griffin is the former Chief Executive Officer of Dwyka Diamonds Limited, an AIM- and ASX-listed diamond producer and is currently a non- executive director of ASX-listed Northern Uranium Limited.
Mr Matodzi Nesongozwi
Non-executive Director
Mr Nesongozwi is a mining engineer by background and is Ferrum Crescent's South African partner in the Turquoise Moon Iron Project.
In 2006 he founded Umthombo Resources (Pty) Ltd, which had been an 'idea' for a very long time. With the help of associates that he had made through his experience in the mining industry Mr Nesongozwi has since led the company in its path to strategic growth. The company is involved in a coal mining joint venture with an established Turkish company, Sumo Coal (Pty) Ltd and has been able to establish itself as an emerging and growing figure in the mining industry when it secured prospecting rights on ten farms for coal in the Mpumalanga Province.
Robert Hair
Company Secretary
Mr Hair is a lawyer with over 20 years' experience in the resources sector. He has held several roles in the MIM Group and smaller companies and has Australian and extensive international experience in legal, commercial, financial and organisational aspects of exploration, mining and processing operations. He currently consults to various companies in the resources and information technology sectors and is currently a non-executive director of ASX-listed Northern Uranium Limited and Carpentaria Exploration Limited.
Mr Andrew Nealon
Company Secretary
Mr Nealon has over 5 years' experience
as a company secretary and financial manager
within publicly-listed companies. He
has been a Company Secretary of the Company
since 2007 (now Ferrum Crescent) and assists
the Chief Financial Officer in the management
of the Company's financial systems.
Robert (Bob) Van Der Laan
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Van Der Laan is an accountant with many years' experience in the management of financial and risk management systems for public companies. He is responsible to senior management and the Board for the Company's financial controls and management and financial reporting and all other aspects of the Company's financial function.
Rainer Dreier
Engineering Director
Mr Dreier is by background a mechanical engineer from Austria and has extensive experience in construction management, with an in-depth knowledge of all major VAI technologies such as those used in rolling mills, continuous casting, ore processing, material handling, pelletizing and direct reduction plants.
Lindsay Cahill
Mine Services Manager
Mr Cahill is a geologist with more than 20 years' experience in the minerals exploration and mining industry. A member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, he has undertaken and managed exploration and resource development programmes for a range of commodities in a wide variety of geological environments within Australia, southern Africa, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In addition, Mr Cahill was the senior resource geologist for Highlands Gold Limited, based in Port Moresby, and resource evaluation manager for the Bulong and Marlborough laterite nickel projects.
Mr Cahill managed Ferrum's exploration
programmes in South Africa and reviewed
and planned exploration for several magnetite
deposits in Australia. With extensive
experience in resource studies, feasibility
test-work, commissioning and liaison with
government and statutory bodies, Mr Cahill
has an in-depth knowledge of sound environmental
practices. His role, along with that of
the Engineering Director, will be pivotal
in assisting the Technical Director to
take the Turquoise Moon Iron Project and
the Company's other projects into development.
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