BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND MANAGEMENT

Accomplished Board and Management Team

  •  Extensive experience in project discovery, development and production

  • Comprehensive experience in infrastructure development

  • Strong capability in global equity and debt financing

  • Compelling track record in creating value for shareholders

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

STUART CROW
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Mr Crow has more than 25 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate finance and investor relations in Australia and international markets and has owned and operated his own businesses in these areas.. He brings extensive working knowledge of global capital markets and investor relations to the Board. Throughout his career, Mr Crow has served on a number of boards of public and unlisted companies and has assisted in raising funds for companies of varying size in Australia and International capital markets whilst working for his own firm and before that some of the world’s largest broking firms.

 

NEIL HERBERT
NON-EXECUTIVE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Mr Herbert is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has over 25 years of experience in finance. Mr Herbert has been involved in growing mining and oil and gas companies, both as an executive and an investment manager, for over 25 years and, until May 2013, was co-chairman and managing director of AIM quoted Polo Resources Limited, a natural resources investment company. Prior to this, he was a director of resource investment company Galahad Gold plc from which he became finance director of its most successful investment, start-up uranium company UraMin Inc. from 2005 to 2007. During this period, he worked to float the company on AIM and the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2006, raise c.US$400 million in equity financing and negotiating the sale of the group for US$2.5 billion.

Mr Herbert has also held board positions at a number of resource companies where he has been involved in managing numerous acquisitions, disposals, stock market listings and fundraisings. Mr Herbert holds a joint honours degree in economics and economic history from the University of Leicester.

 

KEY PERSONNEL

 

LEN KOLFF
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Mr Kolff holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London and a Masters of Economic Geology from CODES, University of Tasmania. Mr Kolff brings with him over 25 years mining industry experience in design, implementation and execution of exploration, resource evaluation, project studies and appraisals for the major and junior resource sector, across a wide variety of jurisdictions with a focus on Africa.

With a proven track record in deposit discovery, Mr Kolff most recently worked in West Africa, instrumental in the discovery and evaluation of the Ewoyaa lithium project in Ghana with Atlantic Lithium (formerly “IronRidge Resources”) and the discovery and evaluation of the Mofe Creek iron ore project in Liberia with Tawana Resources. Prior to this Mr Kolff worked at Rio Tinto for 16 years, where he was involved in several high-profile projects including the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea and the Northparkes Copper-Gold mine in Australia.

Mr Kolff’s responsibilities encompass a broad range of disciplines, including project identification and acquisition, the design, implementation and supervision of multicommodity exploration and resource evaluation programs, studies, team building and collaboration.

 

AMANDA HARSAS
FINANCE DIRECTOR & COMPANY SECRETARY

Ms Harsas graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a Bachelor of Business. She is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ms Harsas has over 25 years’ experience in strategic finance, business transformation, commercial finance, customer and supplier negotiations, company secretarial and capital management, including at PwC, Healius, Law Society of Australia and AIM-listed Atlantic Lithium. Ms Harsas has extensive sector experience in mining and exploration, healthcare, retail, and professional services in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA. Ms Harsas joined the Company as Company Secretary in January 2021 and become Chief Financial Officer in November 2021 on demerger from IronRidge Resources Limited.  Ms Harsas was appointed Finance Director in March 2022.

 

MOCTAR KEITA
REGIONAL MANAGER AFRICA & CÔTE D’IVOIRE EXPLORATION MANAGER

Moctar Keita is an exploration geologist with over 20 years' experience in the mining and exploration sectors. He has a wide variety of practical experience and expertise in exploration geology prospecting for precious metals (gold and PGEs), base metals and iron. Moctar has excellent knowledge and practical experience in geological surveying and mapping, in addition to comprehensive computer processing and data management skills.  During his career to date, Moctar has gained an in-depth knowledge of programme evaluation and quality improvement studies and techniques, and has skills and experience in logistics and planning for remote area operations.  He is experienced in running exploration programmes throughout North Africa, and has compiled comprehensive and informative reports for senior management and other agencies. 

 

VICTOR KAKEBEEKE
CHAD EXPLORATION MANAGER

Victor has extensive grassroots exploration, project appraisal, resource evaluation and studies experience across a wide range of commodity types and jurisdictions. Victor is a geophysicist by training and spent his formative career with Rio Tinto exploration throughout Europe and Africa, an integral member of the Simandou exploration team and subsequent iron ore exploration and development experience in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Victor was a key member of the Zanaga iron ore exploration and development team and its subsequent takeover by Xstrata as well as the original Tekton team that secured the Chad projects. When active in Chad, Victor drives all field exploration activities and target    definition; in addition to assisting exploration activities and a strong focus on field mapping and training of our national workforces in both Ivory Coast. Victor is based in the UK and travels to all project areas regularly.