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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 and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Fredericks has over 29 years experience in base metal mining and exploration from exposure to large-scale open pit and underground mining operations in Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. Mr. Fredericks holds a degree in Geology from Rhodes University, South Africa. He joined the Company in January 2007 from LionOre Mining International where he held various senior operating and corporate positions. Most recently he was employed by LionOre Africa Head Office in Johannesburg as the Business Development Executive, having been transferred from the flagship Tati Nickel operation in Botswana where he was the General Manager and a Director. During his career he has actively been involved with the commissioning, development and growth of a number of mining projects from their inception through to full-scale production.
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| | | Bradley Robert Kipp, Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, HBA (Age: 43)
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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| | | Paul William Thomson
Managing Director, Messina Copper
Paul Thomson has over 26 years in the mining industry in numerous project and operational roles. A total of 16 years were spent with JCI based in South Africa in projects operations at various levels from Section Engineer to Resident Engineer and Plant Manager. Mr. Thomson was responsible for many projects, both surface and underground, and also for operations in gold and uranium plants, trackless and conventional mining sections as well as hoists and all surface infrastructure. He has been responsible for several Greenfield projects where he managed both the building and subsequent operations of successful mines.
Mr. Thomson is experienced in the gold, copper, uranium, graphite, base metals, and heavy minerals and sands sectors in both underground and open pit mines. He has lived and worked in the UK, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Australia, Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana.
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| | | James Arthur
General Manager, Mowana Mine
James Arthur commenced his career in the UK coal mining industry, qualifying as a mine surveyor before going on to complete a Higher National Diploma in Mining. Later in South Africa, he completed a Mine Managers Certificate of Competency and graduated from University of South Africa with an MBA. Most recently, Mr. Arthur was COO of Luanshya Copper Mines PLC in Zambia. He has experience in coal, and base and precious metals, and he has worked in a number of countries in Southern Africa. James was elected as a Fellow of the SAIMM in 2007.
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| | | Susan Wallace
Company Secretary
Susan Wallace is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Partner at David Venus & Company LLP, 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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| | | Roy Derek Corrans (Age: 65)1,2,3
Chairman & 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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| | | David Jones, P. Geoph. (Age: 55)
Deputy Chairman & Director
David Jones has substantial experience in the financial and technical management of projects within the minerals industry including operating mines, advanced development projects and exploration programs as well as other venture finance projects related primarily to the mining industry. Since December 1996, he has been President of Summit Resource Capital Limited (formerly, Dragon Capital Canada Limited), a company that develops and arranges initial financing for minerals industry projects and Vice-President Corporate Development of Atikwa Minerals Corporation. Before this, Mr. Jones spent over 20 years with MPH Consulting Limited ("MPH"), an international exploration and mining consulting firm. Mr. Jones joined MPH as senior geophysical consultant in 1977 where he coordinated and directed the expanding geophysical activities of MPH, including the supervision and implementation of all aspects of exploration geophysics. Later as Vice-President, President and Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for expanding MPH's operations internationally from Canada, being directly responsible for the development and management of the large multi disciplinary integrated projects which MPH managed on behalf of a wide range of clients around the world. He was responsible for the development of projects and company offices in southern Africa and the former Soviet Union. He has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers.
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| | | Michael James Evans, Professional Natural Scientist (Age: 61)1,2,3
Director
Michael Evans has over 34 years of experience as a geologist with 26 years having been spent with Phelps Dodge Corporation (until June 2000) where he advanced from the position of exploration geologist to Vice President in charge of mineral target generation and exploration operations in Africa. Mr. Evans has been self-employed since June 2000. He has worked in over 15 African countries where he has directed mineral target generation and on-site evaluation of properties, managed the establishment of exploration operations and the development of major exploration programs, which has led to feasibility studies conducted in two countries. Specific projects include the successful management of securing the exploration of the Amabatovy Nickel Cobalt Laterite deposits in Madagascar through to the feasibility study stage and securing and exploring the Lumwana deposits in North West Zambia through to the pre feasibility study stage. These deposits contain the largest undeveloped concentrations of stratabound copper mineralization outside of the Zambian Copperbelt.
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| | | Anthony Joseph Williams B.Sc. (Hons) Mining Geology, FIMM ARICS (Age: 56)1,2,3
Director
Anthony Williams graduated from London University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in mining geology. He has approximately 30 years' experience in the international mining industry having been involved in projects in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Mr. Williams is Chairman and controlling shareholder of the Dragon Group of companies, a privately owned international mining finance and project management organization, which he founded in 1995. In addition to the Dragon Group, Mr. Williams holds a number of directorships in public and private companies engaged principally in mining finance or mineral exploration.
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1 Independent director
2 Member of the Audit Committee
3 Member of the Compensation Committee
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