Board of Directors
Details of the Company's Board are set out below. The directors and staff have extensive experience in West Africa.
Reginald Gillard (Non-executive Chairman)
After practising as an accountant for over 31 years, during which time he formed and developed a number of service-related businesses, Mr Gillard now focuses on corporate management, corporate governance and the evaluation and acquisition of businesses. He is non-executive chairman of Aspen Group Ltd, Caspian Oil & Gas Limited, Eneabba Gas Ltd, Lafayette Mining Ltd, Tiger Resources Ltd and President of De Beira Goldfields Inc.
Mark Calderwood (Managing Director)
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Mark Calderwood is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has 20 years' experience in exploring and mining gold. He is a specialist in resource/reserve definition and feasibility studies. He has ten years' experience in and a network of contacts throughout West Africa.
Colin Carson (Executive Director)
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Colin Carson has been involved as a director and company secretary of a number of Australian public companies since the early 1980's and is a director of Caspian Oil & Gas Limited, responsible for the operations of that Company, joint venture negotiations and corporate and legal matters. He is experienced with taxation and mining laws of much of West Africa and the Kyrgyz Republic. Mr Carson is a part time executive director of Perseus.
Rhett Brans (Executive Director)
Mr Brans qualified as a civil engineer at what is now known as Monash University in 1974 and completed an advanced management program at the University of Melbourne in 1991.
Mr Brans has operated a consultancy providing project management services to the mining industry for the past 12 years. In this capacity, he has managed the development of gold and base metal projects. His experience extends across the full range from mining feasibility studies through to commissioning operations. Mr Brans has 30 years' experience in the design and construction of mineral treatment facilities.
Neil Fearis (Non-Executive Director)
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Neil Fearis has 29 years' experience as a commercial lawyer in the UK and Australia. For 13 years he was a partner in one of Australia's largest national law firms. In 1999 together with others he formed a niche firm specialising in the provision of corporate and commercial legal advice to listed public companies. Mr Fearis practices principally in the area of mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, public flotations, and other forms of capital raising.
He is a member of several professional bodies associated with commerce and the law, including the Law Council of Australia, the International Bar Association, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr Fearis was formerly WA Chairman of the Australian-British Chamber of Commerce and is currently Chairman of Kresta Holdings Limited and a non-executive director of Carnarvon Petroleum Limited.
Susmit Shah ( Company Secretary)
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Mr Shah is a Chartered Accountant and has been involved as a director and company secretary of various Australian public companies for a number of years. He consults to public companies on a variety of matters including stock exchange requirements, joint venture negotiations and corporate fundraising.
Kevin Thomson, P.Geo (Exploration Manager - West Africa)
Mr Thomson has 20 years' experience in exploration and resource geology with more than eight years' experience in West Africa working with Newmont-Battle Mountain in Ghana. He is an experienced Project and Geology Manager.
