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Andrew Bell, MA, LLB, FGS
Executive Chairman
Andrew Bell began his career as a natural resources analyst at Morgan Grenfell & Co. in the 1970s. His business experience encompasses periods in fund management and advisory work at leading financial institutions, international corporate finance work and private equity. Andrew Bell’s listed company directorships are Regency Mines plc (executive chairman), Greatland Gold plc (non-executive chairman), Jupiter Mines Limited (non-executive director) and Resource Star Limited (non-executive chairman).
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Manoli Yannaghas, BA
Executive Director
Manoli Yannaghas is a former financial analyst working with an international financial consultancy firm. Experienced with small companies including operations and corporate finance, for over ten years he has worked in various operational capacities within small and medium sized businesses. Manoli has experience with management and fund raising as well as other areas of corporate finance. He currently sits as non-executive director on a number of small fast growth companies. He is a former director of ASX-listed Resource Star Limited.
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Michael Nott, BSc, MSc, DIC, FIMMM, FMES, FIQ, C.Eng
Non-executive Director
Mike Nott is a geologist and mining engineer by profession and has 35 years’ experience in the mining, minerals and quarrying industries. His early career was based in Zambia including nine years with Roan Consolidated Mines Limited. He was a regional manager for Pioneer Aggregates (UK) Limited, then an Australian company, and later a director of Jay Minerals Services Limited and Hills Aggregates Limited, becoming trading director of ARC (Southern) Limited and production director of C White Limited. He is currently chairman and managing director of Alba Mineral Resources plc and a director and CEO of Magyar Mining Limited.
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John Watkins, FCA
Non-executive Director
John Watkins has spent 50 years in the accountancy profession during which time he has been a partner in the firms of Ernst & Young and Neville Russell. For the past 15 years he has been involved in a number of new business ventures including biotech, retail, web-based trading and more recently early stage mineral exploration. Currently, he is finance director of AIM-listed Starvest plc, a non-executive director of Regency Mines plc and of Greatland Gold plc and chairman of both Equity Resources plc and Rare Earths and Metals plc.
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James Ladner, lic. oec. HSG
Independent Non-executive Director
James Ladner, a Swiss citizen, has over 40 years’ experience in the finance industry. After 28 years at Coutts Bank (Switzerland) Limited, where he was an executive vice-president, he was for nine years chairman of Bank Austria (Switzerland). He has also served as a director of The Royal Bank of Scotland AG, Interallianz Bank AG, Asahi Bank AG and F. Van Lanschot Bankiers (Switzerland). He was a member of the Swiss Admissions Commission for listing on the Swiss Stock Exchanges and of the Swiss Capital Market Commission of the Swiss National Bank. Outside Switzerland, he has served as director of a number of companies, including StrataGold Corporation, Pan Pacific Aggregates plc, Colombia Gold plc and Nevoro Inc. He is currently a director of Oracle Energy Corp., Colt Resources Inc. and Guerrero Exploration Inc.
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