Management Team
ALEX VAN HOEKEN (PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
| Photo | Mr Van Hoeken is a Dutch citizen, obtaining a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1991. His early career included positions in the maritime construction industry in Nigeria, Malaysia, Qatar, and several European countries, after which he was involved in the establishment of gold and copper exploration and mining ventures in Indonesia, Mexico, and Oman. He has been active in the mining industry in various management and consulting positions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the gold, diamond, and copper sectors since 1999 and has extensive experience with remote operations. Mr. van Hoeken has been a director and managing director of several private companies and subsidiaries of listed companies since 1996. He is fluent in French, and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining as well as a UK Chartered Engineer and a Professional Member of the US Society of Mining Engineers |
PHILIP GIBBS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
| Photo | Mr Gibbs is a Chartered Management Accountant with extensive financial management experience in large corporate environments, both in the manufacturing and retail sectors in North America and in Africa. Mr Gibbs’s multi-disciplinary exposure includes Market Research, Logistics and IT System implementations, making him well suited to a growing business |
STANLEY ROBERTSON (EXPLORATION MANAGER)
| Photo | Mr Robinson is a Canadian geologist and a graduate of Sir George Williams and the University of Ottawa. Mr Robinson has over thirty years exploration and management experience in Canada and Africa, including six years with International Gold and Ashanti Goldfields in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Mr. Robinson served as a director and President of Lakota Resources Inc. and managed the Company’s exploration projects and joint ventures in Tanzania. In Bukina Faso Mr. Robinson delineated a resource of 1.3 Moz of gold on the Youga project; Youga is now in commercial production. |
STUART THOMSON (VP OPERATIONS)
| Mr Thomson is Chemical and Materials Engineer (M.Eng, University of Auckland, NZ) with over 15 years experience in the resources industry. He has held design, operations, consulting and senior management roles with international EPCM consultants (AMEC, Flour Daniel) and mining companies (Anglo American Plc). He also served on industry / government working groups to address strategic issues facing the industry. Mr Thomson has a broad breadth of experience across the resource value chain from geology to markets and in the management of consultants in the delivery of engineering studies (conceptual to definitive feasibility studies) and projects. Commodity experience includes: PGM’s; gold; base metals; industrial minerals and coal across a number of number of continents: Africa; Europe; Australasia; North America and South America. On gold projects he has worked on both refractory and non-refractory gold deposits and provided consulting services to leading gold companies with respect to test work, process and environmental issues |