The Board
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
aged 59, appointed as a non-executive director on 20 December 2021 and as interim non-executive chairman on 27 October 2023. Andrew is a proven business leader with more than 30 years’ experience in the mining, metals and banking sectors where his management experience has encompassed strategic, financial and operational oversight. He is currently Managing Director of Scanmetals A/S, a specialist metal recycling business with operations in Denmark, the UK and Germany. Prior thereto he was Group Business Development Director at Amalgamated Metal Corporation Plc. and for thirteen years Andrew held various positions with Standard Bank including Head of Resource Banking, Global Co-Head Investment Banking, and Chief Executive Standard Bank Asia.
Earlier in his career he worked with BMO Nesbitt Burns and Warrior International. Other directorships have included Avnel Gold Mining Limited and Rame Energy plc. Andrew has a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and an MBA from the London Business School.
He is a member of the audit and nomination committees.
Robert (Rob) Marsden
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
aged 51, Rob is a Mining Engineer with 29 years of international experience. Upon graduation from the Camborne School of Mines in 1995 he joined Rio Tinto plc and over the next 18 years held several technical, operational and management roles , living and working in South Africa, Australia, France and the USA, and was latterly employed in the Business Evaluation Department at Rio Tinto’s head office in London.
In 2013 Rob founded his own consultancy, MarsdenGray, based in the UK, to draw together his unique blend of technical, financial and practical experience, providing clients with clear robust insights into the planning, operation and evaluation of mining projects.
During his career, Rob has gained experience across a wide range of commodities including copper, diamonds, gold, silver, coal, industrial minerals, and iron ore with on the ground assignments around the world, including Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Ghana, Madagascar, Peru, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Rob is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM), Qualified for Mineral Reporting (by IOM), is a Fellow of the Geological Society (London) and an Associate of the Camborne School of Mines.
Douglas (Doug) Hall
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Aged 63, Doug Hall originally qualified as a lawyer in the UK in the 1980s. He then moved to Western Australia and was for many years the senior mining project finance partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia. Returning to the UK around 5 years ago, he has pursued an in-house career as general counsel with several private and listed mining companies.
Throughout his 35-plus year career as a lawyer, he has acted for private and listed junior and mid-cap mining companies around the World and has significant project development, operational and management experience.
With a risk assessment and corporate/project finance background, he brings extensive experience of guiding companies in the natural resources sector through complex negotiations, often with a cross border/cross-cultural element.