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Board and Management
The Board
The Board consists of the following executive and non-executive
Directors:
Edward Francis Gerrard Nealon (Executive Chairman)
Mr Nealon is a geologist by training with some 37 years experience
covering many of the major mining centres of the world, and
in particular RSA. Mr Nealon was the founder of Aquarius Platinum
Limited, following which he created the modern version of
Sylvania Resources Limited.
Robert Hair (Managing Director)
Mr Hair is by background a lawyer with over 21 years experience
in the resources sector. He has held several roles in the MIM
Group Limited Group and other companies and has Australian and
international experience in legal, commercial, financial and
organisational aspects of exploration, mining and processing
operations. He has for some years provided consultancy services
to companies in the resources and information technology sectors
and is currently a non-executive director of Carpentaria Exploration
Limited.
Klaus Borowski (Independent Non-executive Director)
Mr Borowski is a metallurgical engineer by background, having
studied in his home country of Germany. He went to South Africa
in 1966, where he was technical director of Dunsward Steel until
1979. After a short period in Europe within the steel industry,
he returned to RSA in 1982 and subsequently held several positions
in the iron and steel industry in South Africa, including as
Managing Director of Krupp South Africa and as Executive Director
of Industrial Metal Supply Co.. In 1998, Mr Borowski formed
Applied Metallurgical Technologies (Pty) Ltd, and amongst other
things he was on the steering committee of Saldhana Steel (Pty)
Ltd. Mr Borowski is chairman of the remuneration committee of
the Company (the "Remuneration Committee") and is a member of
the audit committee of the Company (the "Audit Committee").ng
Kofi Morna (Non-executive Director)
Mr Morna holds a Master of Business Administration degree from
the London Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree
from Princeton University. He is a non-executive director of
Aquarius Platinum Limited and is an Executive Director of Savannah
Resources (Pty) Ltd. He has a broad exposure to the iron ore
industry in RSA and is a director of Mkhombi, the company that
will be the Company's BEE partner. Mr Morna is a member of the
nomination committee of the Company (the "Nomination Committee").
Grant Michael Button (Non-executive Director)
Mr Button is a qualified accountant and has significant financial
and other commercial management and transactional experience.
Mr Button has 19 years' experience at a senior management level
in the resources industry. He has acted as an executive director,
Managing Director, Finance Director, Chief Financial Officer
and company secretary of a range of publicly listed companies.
He was a non-executive director of the Company when it listed
on the ASX in November 2005 and continued in that role until
his resignation in November 2008. He is currently the Chief
Executive Officer of Magnum Mining & Exploration Limited, an
executive director of Sylvania Resources Limited, non-executive
chairman of Realm Resources Limited and non-executive chairman
of Alamar Resources Limited. Mr Button is chairman of the Audit
Committee and the Nomination Committee and is a member of the
Remuneration Committee.
Theodore ("Ted") Carl Droste (Non-executive Director)
Mr Droste is a chemical engineer by background, and after obtaining
a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 1962 he worked at African Metals
Corporation Limited (now known as Samancor) before joining Sentrachem
Limited where he was promoted to the position of Research and
Development Manager. After ten years with Sentrachem, he joined
the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa ("IDC")
in 1974, in whose employ he remained until he took early retirement
in 2001 to start his own business. Mr Droste held a number of
positions at the IDC, including that of Senior General Manager-Projects
Division. Mr Droste is chairman of Bay Precision and Mining
(Pty) Limited. He consults to various companies through his
investments holding company, TC Droste Investments (Pty) Ltd.
Mr Droste is a member of the Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee
and Nomination Committee.
Senior Management
The key members of the management team of the Company are
as follows:
Vernon Harvey (Chief Operating Officer)
Mr Harvey is a chemical engineer, who has extensive experience
as a project manager in the South African resources industry.
During his 46 year career Mr Harvey has worked for organisations
including the Rio Tinto Group and the Industrial Development
Corporation of South Africa Limited. Mr Harvey has overseen
feasibility studies on a series of major resources projects,
including full infrastructure assessments, which has resulted
in six fully commissioned operations. He is based full time
in South Africa.
Kevin Scott Huntly (Strategic Development Manager)
Mr Huntly, who is a mining engineer with over 32 years' experience
in the mining industry, principally within South Africa, leads
the Company's community and government relations and strategic
development team and is based in Johannesburg. He has extensive
experience within government in RSA and of working with several
exploration and mining companies within the country (including
Aquarius Platinum Limited and Sylvania Resources Limited), especially
during the companies' transition from exploration to development.
Andrew Nealon (Company Secretary)
Mr Nealon has over 3 years experience as a company secretary
and financial manager within publicly listed companies. He has
been a company secretary of the Company since 2007 and assists
the Chief Financial Officer in the management of the Company's
financial systems.
Lindsay Cahill (Consultant Geologist)
Mr Cahill is a geologist with more than 25 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
project. Mr Cahill has managed the Company's exploration programmes
in RSA and reviewed and planned exploration for several magnetite
deposits in Australia. With extensive experience in resource
studies, feasibility testwork, commissioning and liaison with
government and statutory bodies, Mr Cahill has an in-depth knowledge
of sound environmental practices.
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