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Clinton Wood (Executive Chairman) |
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Clinton qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in Johannesburg. In 1988 he joined Investec where he spent 15 years in various senior roles including Head of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance, and Head of Debt Origination and Trading. He led the team that was responsible for building the bank’s stock-broking business before taking over as Head of Equity Sales For the past three years Clinton has been Chief Executive Officer of a Swiss based family owned direct investment business. He has acted as the Company’s Non Executive Chairman until accepting the appointment as Executive Chairman in September 2007. |
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Dr John Herselman (Chief Executive) |
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John studied Chemical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating in 1965. After working as a Production Engineer at Iscor, he then moved to Germany where he studied Metallurgy at the Technical University of Aachen and was awarded a doctorate in Metallurgy of Nuclear Fuels in 1972. After returning to South Africa he was appointed Principal Engineer at Uranium Enrichment Corporation and subsequently joined Lurgi South Africa. In 1982 he joined Edward L Bateman Group as the Managing Director of its South African subsidiary, Bateman Engineering. He soon expanded the basis of operations from mining and minerals to include oil, gas, chemicals and energy. In 1986 he was made a full Director of Edward L Bateman, then joint Managing Director in 1988 and was further promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Bateman Project Holdings Ltd in 1989. After the sale of the Bateman Projects Holdings Ltd to the Beny Steinmetz Group, Dr Herselman remained a Director of Edward L Bateman which changed its name to ELB Group where he has been a Non-Executive Director since 2002. From 2004 till joining Noventa, he worked as an independent project initiator and facilitator. |
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Martin Hinxman (Chief Financial Officer) |
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Martin is a graduate of Rhodes University and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has in excess of 20 years experience in the manufacturing, heavy industrial and mining industries. He has worked in a senior executive role at Consolidated Metallurgical Industries Limited, JCI Limited, JCI Projects (Pty) Limited and MRI Criticare (Pty) Limited, before joining the Group in 2002. |
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The Honourable Peregrine Moncreiffe (Non-Executive Director) |
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The Honourable Peregrine Moncreiffe began his career at Credit Suisse working in London, New York and East Asia over a ten year period. Following this, he became a partner of Lehman Brothers (New York) managing the US Government and Money Market trading departments, and subsequently the mortgage backed trading department. Peregrine was a managing director of EF Hutton, London in charge of international capital market activities, before co-founding Buchanan Partners Limited in 1990. He was appointed as a director of the investment manager fund, Metage Capital Limited, in November 2001. |
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Richard Burt (Non-Executive Director) |
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Richard is an engineering graduate of the Royal School of Mines. He has worked for over forty years in mineral processing of which the last thirty years he has been directly involved with tantalum. Richard is a lecturer and consultant in gravity concentration throughout the world. Richard is principal and owner of Gravita Inc, an independent consulting firm with a primary interest in minerals development projects especially those incorporating gravity concentration mining and marketing of tantalum minerals. He is also the Operations Director for Angus and Ross plc. Previously he worked for several years at Cabot Corporation where he was promoted to managing all Cabot’s mineral development interests. |
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Patrick Delafield (Non-Executive Director) |
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Patrick is a law graduate of the University of Cambridge. He has spent 37 years in the beverage business in senior positions in western and eastern Europe with Guinness and Stroh Brewery Company of Detroit. He is based in Jersey, where he has lived for 25 years. He headed up G. Orange & Co., Beverage Merchants in Jersey from 1997 to 2004 and became director of business development with Victor Hugo Wines in 2005. His current role is General Wine Trade Liaison for that company. He is president of the Leander Club. |
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Ron Emerson (Non-Executive Director) |
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Ron is a non-executive director of an oil and gas exploration company and an insurance company, where he chairs both audit committees. He is also an Associate Fellow of Said Business School, University of Oxford, where he works with organisations in the areas of leadership and strategic change. He spent five years with Standard Chartered Bank where he was global head of wholesale banking and has been a senior advisor to the Bank of England. |
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Management |
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In addition to Clinton Wood, John Herselman and Martin Hinxman, the key personnel within the Group that will be responsible for the operation and development of the business are: |
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David Whitehouse, BSc (Hons) Mech Eng (Chief Operating Officer) |
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David has 33 years experience of multi disciplinary project management and development, having been involved in the implementation of major projects from conception and feasibility study, through detail engineering and construction to completion. After 25 years in engineering contracting, David joined BHP Billiton in 2000 as Senior Manager, Project Management before moving to the Bateman Group in 2002 as Chief Operating Officer. David left Bateman at the end of 2003 to work as a consultant to the mining industry, including Noventa, before joining the Group in 2007. |
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Munashe Shava, HND (Mining Engineering) (General Manager : Marropino Mine) |
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Munashe has in excess of 10 years experience in the mining industry (i.e. gold, platinum and diamonds), having started as a graduate learner official in 1996 and worked his was up through the ranks to the position of mine manager in 2005. Munashe has also worked for Kinross Gold, Anglo American (Zimbabwe) and Zimbabwe Platinum Mines, prior to joining River Ranch Diamond Mine in 2005. He was the mine manager at River Ranch from 2005 until he joined the Group in 2007. |
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Evias Kufa, BSc (Hons) (Electrical Engineering) (Resident Engineer) |
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Evias has in excess of 15 years engineering and maintenance related experience, a significant portion of which was gained while working at the refinery and mines owned by Bindura Nickel Corporation (i.e. a member of the Anglo American Group of Companies). Prior to joining the Group in January 2008, Evias worked for Standard Flour Mills Ltd (Nigeria), where he was the Engineering Manager responsible for maintenance and the management of all capital projects. |
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Shaun Botes, NTC3 (Plant Manager) |
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Shaun has extensive hands-on experience in metallurgy and working within a mineral processing environment. Shaun has worked for East Rand Gold & Uranium from 1985 to 1997 and the Ancuabe Graphite Mine SARL (Mozambique) from 1997 to 2000. Thereafter, Shaun has working for various mining companies on a contract basis, prior to joining the Group in November 2007. |
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André de Goede, B.Compt, B.B, A (Hons), MBA (Administration Manager) |
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Andre joined the Group in March 2008 as the Administartion Manager : Marropino Mine. In addition to being responsible for the the day to day administration at the mine he is also responsible for overseeing the running of the Camp (i.e. canteen and accommodation), Security and the Clinic. Prior to Andre joining the Group he worked in the auditing profession and as an independent business consultant. André is a registered member of the Institute for Administration and Commerce. |
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