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| Peter Boycott
Position: Executive Director and Chairman
Peter Boycott is a Chartered Accountant and was appointed to the board on 2nd May 1997. He became executive Chairman on 13th June 1997. During his career he has been involved as Finance Director and substantial shareholder in a number of private investment and property groups including engineering and manufacturing companies supplying furnace systems to the major mining Groups world-wide. He has been a Director of several public quoted Companies in Australia and Canada.
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| Brian Wides
Position: Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Wides is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and was appointed to the board on 13th June 1997. He became Finance Director on 5th September 1997 and subsequently Chief Executive on 5th July 2006. His specialist experience includes corporate finance, management consultancy and creating shareholder value for large spectrum of private and public companies in the UK, Australia and Canada.
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| Matthew Tack
Position: Executive Director (Finance) and Company Secretary
Matthew Tack is a Chartered Accountant (Australia) and was appointed as Company Secretary on 27th September 2004. He joined the board as Finance Director on 5th July 2006. He has experience preparing financial statements and maintaining statutory company records across a wide range of industries in both Australia and the UK.
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| Chris Orchard
Position: Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer
Chris Orchard joined the Group as Chief Investment Officer in December 2007 and was appointed to the Board on 22nd June 2009. He graduated with a Mining Hons degree from Leeds University, before working in the South African mining industry. He then spent 20 years as an investment banker in the City specializing in the resources sector, his last roles being MD of Hambros Equity UK and a Director of RBC Dominion Securities. More recently he managed the investment operations of a private wealth management group.
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| John Theobald
Position: Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
John Theobald joined the Group as Chief Operating Officer in April 2008 and was appointed to the Board on 22nd June 2009. Mr. Theobald is a qualified geologist and Chartered Engineer and has held senior positions with major and junior mining companies covering a wide range of metallic and non-metallic minerals. Prior to joining the Group Mr Theobald was an Operations Director for SCR-Sibelco, a major industrial minerals group. He has also worked for Anglo American, Phelps Dodge and Iscor amongst others and has extensive experience in exploration, acquisitions and developing and operating mines in a number of different countries.
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| Mike Atkinson
Position: Non-Executive Director
Mike Atkinson (Non-Executive Director) is a qualified management accountant and was appointed on 9th February, 2006. He worked for 10 years for the National Coal Board as a capital investment analyst before joining the UK Department of Energy (later DTI). He was a senior civil servant for nearly 20 years until his retirement in 2004, and held a range of financial, management and policy posts including Director of Coal and later Chairman of British Coal. Mike Atkinson currently chairs the Nomination Committee.
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| Dr. John Whellock
Position: Non-Executive Director
Dr. John Whellock, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, was appointed as a director on 3rd March 2003. He has 30 years of experience in the development and implementation of extractive metallurgy, mineral and chemical plants and projects for major international mining groups. His firm, JW Technologies, has been responsible for the implementation of several innovative furnace designs and processes. Applications include alternative power, treatment of various hazardous wastes, cement industry by-products and production of nano-materials. Dr. John Whellock currently chairs the Audit Committee.
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| Anthony Yadgaroff
Position: Non-Executive Director
Anthony Yadgaroff is a former equity analyst and manager of small pension funds and was appointed as a director on 3rd March 2003. In 1984 he founded Allenbridge Group plc, a FSA regulated company which researches fund managers' performance and provides a rating service of hedge funds for institutional clients. As a result, he has considerable experience of the interests of shareholders and related compliance issues. Anthony Yadgaroff currently chairs the Remuneration Committee.
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