| John F. Kearney |
Irish, aged 48, chairman, is a mining executive with over 27 years experience in the mining industry. He is a director of several public resource companies including African Gold plc and IMO plc and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. |
Lord Crickhowell |
aged 65, non-executive vice-chairman, was formerly Secretary of State for Wales. He is chairman of HTV Group Limited and IT Net Limited and a director of Associated British Ports Plc. |
Malcolm Burne |
aged 55, non-executive director, is a company director based in London with many years of experience in the financing and operation of mineral companies internationally. |
Ian Cuthbertson |
aged 52, finance director and company secretary, is a chartered accountant. He has extensive experience in the international oilfield and construction industries and has been secretary of the company since 1988 |
Malcolm Swallow |
aged 48, non-executive director, has 26 years active experience in the mining industry and is currently vice-president of corporate development of Imperial Metals Corporation. He is a graduate mining engineer, an associate of the Royal School of Mines, a Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and a chartered engineer. From 1988 to 1994 he was executive mining director of the company. |
Danesh Varma |
Canadian, aged 49, non-executive director, is a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Taxation. He is president of American Resource Corporation and Dundee Bancorp (India) Private Limited and a director of The Dundee Bank. He is also a director of a number of resource companies. During the year he became a director of Brook Corporate Finance Limited. |
Technical
management
Aged 53, the company’s chief geologist, has managed the Parys Mountain project since 1994. He has over 30 years experience in exploration and mining in Africa, North and Central America, Europe and South East Asia.
He gained an honours degree in geology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1967. He has been chief geologist at underground copper mines in British Columbia, Canada and an open pit copper mine in Ireland and has worked underground in the Witswatersrand gold mines in South Africa. He has managed exploration programmes around the world for a variety of commodities including copper, zinc, nickel and gold and was an associate with DMBW, a senior consulting group based in Toronto Canada, for a number of years.
Aged 32, the company’s geologist, has a first class honours degree in applied geology from Oxford Brookes University and a Ph.D. in Geology from Cardiff University, for which he was sponsored by the company. The subject of his Ph.D. was the chemostratigraphy of volcanic host rocks at Parys Mountain.