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The officers and directors have extensive international experience with a broad range of skills. The three independent directors occupied senior executive roles with some of the world's largest global producers before their retirement. The entire team has impressive exploration and development credentials with particular expertise in base metal projects in Southern Africa.
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Director & Chief Financial Officer
Bradley Kipp has more than 15 years of financial, capital markets and operating experience specializing in the mining sector. He is or has been Chief Financial Officer, an officer and/or director of several public resource and non-resource companies (including Titanium Corporation, Atikwa Minerals Corporation, MineGem Inc.). Mr. Kipp was formerly employed by Deloitte and Touche Corporate Finance Canada Limited in the capacity of Vice-President and Director, where he was a member of its corporate finance group providing global merger and acquisition services. He received a BA from the University of Western Ontario, his Honours Business Administration (Finance) from the Ivey School of Business in 1988, his Chartered Accountant designation in 1991 and his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997. Mr. Kipp is a member of the CFA Institute and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
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| | | Susan Wallace
Company Secretary
Susan Wallace is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Director at David Venus & Company Limited, a firm that specialises in UK company law compliance and company secretarial practice. Susan has previously worked and trained within accountancy and legal practices including Eversheds Solicitors and KPMG in Hong Kong.
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| | | David Rodier (Age:65)3
Chairman/Director
David Rodier, has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Board. He is currently a director of Zambia Copper Investments Limited (Bermuda). He has not been a director of any other company during the last five years. David gained his extensive working experience in the non-ferrous industry, starting with Cominco in British Columbia, (now Teck-Cominco) and later for Noranda Inc. where he was employed for 35 years and where he was involved with zinc and copper recycling. His experience includes a wide range of technical and managerial positions in zinc and copper businesses including: Senior Vice President, Environment Safety and Health at Noranda between 1998 and 2002; Senior Vice President, Copper & Recycling at Noranda between 1995 and 1997; and President of Canadian Electrolytic Zinc between 1992 and 1995. David was Noranda's delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the International Council for Mining and Metals, the International Zinc Association, the International Copper Association, the Mining Association of Canada and the Canadian Chemical Producers Association.
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| | | Jordan Soko (Age: 46)2
Director
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iCapital Group a private equity and advisory firm providing commercial and financial advisory services, investment management as well as private equity expertise in the Southern African region. He is currently a non-executive director of the Copper Development Association Africa (Republic of South Africa) and non-executive Chairman of African Explosives PLC (Zambia).
Mr. Soko brings experience of developing and operating copper mines in Southern Africa as a director of Lumwana Mining Company, the largest single copper mine in Africa, and as a former senior executive at Konkola Copper Mines plc. Through the Copper Development Association, he brings understanding of the "demand side" of the copper industry. Mr. Soko is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration.
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| | | Roy Derek Corrans (Age: 67)1,2,3
Director
Roy Corrans has had 35 years experience with a number of exploration companies in the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa and Anglo American PLC group of companies. His experiences encompasses base metals, uranium, industrial minerals and precious metals exploration and mining. Mr. Corrans was Senior V-P Exploration of Anglo from January 1999 to December 2001. He has since worked as a consultant. His commodity experience includes gold-silver, platinum, copper, zinc-lead, nickel cobalt, tungsten and chrome. He has had extensive international work experience in Africa, North America, Australasia, Europe and the Far East and was responsible for the discovery of the Epoch nickel deposit (in Zimbabwe) and the Skorpion oxide zinc deposit (in Namibia). Mr. Corrans is also a director of several small companies with mineral interests registered in Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia and South Africa. Professional Designations: Professional Natural Scientist, Fellow Geological Society of South Africa, Fellow Society of Economic Geologists.
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| | | Professor Stephen Simukanga (Age 52)2,3
Director
Mr. Simukanga has 26 years experience in the mining industry and academia having started his working life in the Luanshya Mine of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited in 1982. He has been involved in consultancy and research in the areas of mine and quarry evaluation, mineral processing and the environment.
He is Professor of Metallurgy and Mineral Processing at the University of Zambia and was visiting professor at the University of Cape Town for 10 years. He is also Chief Executive Officer (Vice Chancellor) of the University of Zambia.
He has a Bachelors degree (1982) and a Master's degree (1986), both in Metallurgy and Mineral Processing from the University of Zambia, and a doctorate (1990) in Process Metallurgy from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. He is a united Kingdom Chattered Engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Engineering Institution of Zambia.
He chairs the boards of the National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Examinations Council of Zambia and is a member of three other boards of directors including a director of Zambia Copper Investments (ZCI)
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1 Independent director
2 Member of the Audit Committee
3 Member of the Compensation Committee
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