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DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Mr David Vilensky NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN • AUSTRALIAN Mr Vilensky is the chairman of Prodemas International Ltd, a public unlisted company which provides project management services to the global resources industry and is also the chairman of Latin Resources Pty Ltd, a company with exploration interests in Peru. Mr Simon Francis Durack B.Comm, Post Grad Dip Bus, CA, FCIS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • AUSTRALIAN Mr. Durack is a Chartered Accountant and practicing Company Secretary, with over 28 years commercial experience gained working in Australia, South East Asia and Europe. Mr. Durack's commercial experience includes time worked in the Accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He has also held many senior financial and secretarial roles with both large public and private entities. In these roles, Mr. Durack has been responsible for providing managerial, secretarial and financial advisory input. Mr. Durack has also acted as resident Director for several offshore companies with operations in Australia.
Mr Richard Leonard Procter BSc Eng; CEng; MBA; MIMMM NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • AUSTRALIAN Richard Procter is a mining engineer with over 30 years broad international experience covering corporate, operations, contracting, consulting and project developments. He has held senior industry positions that have demonstrated leadership and management of base and precious metal mining concerns; development of bankable feasibility studies and their conversion into mining operations; managed teams undertaking mining asset evaluations and valuations including technical and operational audits (encompassing complete mining asset due diligence and expert reports). Richard has also been involved in many mining operation start-ups (both small and large) - as well as the re-engineering of large ongoing operations. Richard has, and continues to provide, technical and strategic planning advice to both mining and industrial organisations.
Mr Emmanuel Heyndrickx MSc NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • UNITED KINGDOM Mr. Heyndrickx is a qualified accountant and holds a degree in Business Economics (MSc) from the University of Ghent, Belgium, supplemented with a Masters in Financial Management from the Vlerick Management School, Belgium. Mr. Heyndrickx has many years of Corporate Finance experience with a number of European investment banks and has lead and executed many public and private mandates.
MANAGEMENT Mr Frank Vanspeybroeck CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER • AUSTRALIAN Mr. Frank Vanspeybroeck has over 28 years’ experience in the exploration and mining industry in Australia. His experience includes gold mining, commissioning and operating processing plants. Mr Vanspeybroeck was the founder and director until 2007 of Wedgetail Exploration NL (Millennium Minerals Ltd), a gold mining company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange which owns the Nullagine gold project in Western Australia, and was the founder and Managing Director from February 2006 until December 2010 of China Goldmines plc, a gold mining company listed on the AIM (UK) Stock Exchange.
Frank has taken over the management of the project development, logistics and drilling and is experienced in infrastructure, logistics and project development having residing in China for 5 years developing a gold project in China.
Mr Willie Sweta M.Sc (Met), Dipl (Min. Eng)
Mr Pierre Malherbe – B.Comm Investment Man; B.Comm (Hons) Acc; M.Comm Business Management
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER • AUSTRALIAN
Mr Malherbe has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since August 2009 and has a sound knowledge of the Company and its operations. Mr. Malherbe's experience both in South Africa and Australia includes 23 years in the Investment Banking, Finance and Mining industries gained with some of the major banks in South Africa where he held senior financial and managerial positions within these Banks and was responsible for managerial, transactional and financial input across all spectrums, including: mining, construction, aviation and other capital intensive projects as well as senior management positions within mining and financial industries in Australia. In addition, Mr Malherbe holds a Master of Business Management (Master of Commerce) postgraduate degree from the University of Johannesburg, an Honours degree majoring in Accounting - Bachelor of Commerce (Hons)(Acc) and a Bachelor of Commerce Investment Management degree from the University of Johannesburg.
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