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| | | David B. Evans - Executive Chairman
David, 58, joined the Company on 1st October 2007, as Executive Chairman. David brings with him over 30 years of experience across the natural resources sector, with particular expertise in the development of precious and base metal projects for both large mining houses and emerging producers. David is currently a Director for AIM-listed Tianshan Goldfields Ltd., and was previously a Director of Kroondal Platinum Ltd. and Aquarius Platinum Ltd., where he played an integral part in their growth, financing and successful development. He is also a Director of Orlando Investments Plc. Within the last five years, David has held directorships or partnerships at Exterra Consulting cc, Tarapaca Resources Ltd. (Bermuda).
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| | | Luis Guilherme Cabrita da Silva - President & CEO
Luis, 36, took over the role of President & Chief Executive in October 2007 having joined Mano River in February of the same year as Chief Financial Officer. He gained his extensive international experience with the multinationals Lafarge S.A. and Blue Circle Industries Plc as well as Stevin Rock, formerly of the Dragomar Group. His career has taken him across the world in an operational, technical and corporate capacity. Most recently as a Director of Group Audit, Luis was heading Lafarge's Asia Pacific internal audit department based in Malaysia having previously been posted to Paris, France, with the same company.Luis is a graduate Mining Engineer from Camborne School of Mines and read for his MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. He is currently an Executive Director of Stellar Diamonds Ltd and a Director of AiRENA Ltd.
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| | | Guido ('Guy') Pas - Non-Executive Director
Guy is the founder and former Chairman of Mano River Resources Inc. He is a financier based in Geneva who has been involved in numerous start-up and early-stage resource ventures through Eastbound Resources and AddVenture Capital Partners.
He is a co-founder of GAIA Resources Fund Ltd., in 2004, (formerly Synergy Resources Fund), which focuses on early stage private and public resource companies. He was co-founder of The Addax & Oryx Group Ltd., an integrated African oil group in 1987 (its upstream affiliate Addax Petroleum now listed on the TSX and AIM), and in 2004 of Afren plc another West African oil & gas company listed on AIM. Guy co-founded and was the chairman of Samax Resources Ltd, in 1989, which listed as Samax Gold Inc. on the TSX in 1996, with two major gold mine discoveries in Tanzania to its credit. In 1995, he founded Mano River Resources Inc., the TSXV and AIM dual-listed pioneer gold, diamond and iron ore exploration company in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Guy has equally been involved in several FSU ventures, most recently Ovoca Gold Plc, developing a silver mine in Magadan and Siberian Diamonds exploring in Irkutsk. Prior to Addax & Oryx, he was a Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank (Belgium; France and Switzerland) in structured and commodity finance, from 1973 to 1983 and was CFO of Africa-focused oil trading companies from 1984 to 1987.
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| | | Dr Tom G. Elder - Non-Executive Director
Tom, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Mano, is a geology graduate of Durham University and held a post-graduate NATO Scholarship at the University of Oslo, Norway. His extensive background in mineral exploration was gained with major companies including BP and RTZ. He is multi-lingual and has run exploration programmes in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greenland for Cominco Limited, prior to his appointment as worldwide Exploration Manager for BP Minerals in 1983. Following the take-over by RTZ, he had special responsibility for project development in the Former Soviet Union. Dr Elder is also a Non-Executive director of AIM-listed companies Centamin Egypt Limited and Angus & Ross.
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| | | Malcolm Burne - Non-Executive Director
Malcolm is a Non-Executive Director of Mano and a member of the Audit Committee. A former financial journalist with the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph, Malcolm, 58, has controlled and managed fund management, venture capital, and investment banking companies in Australia, Hong Kong and North America. Malcolm has been a Director of over 20 companies, many of which have been in the mineral resources and gold exploration fields. He is currently chairman of both Golden Prospect and Jubilee. In addition, he was Executive Chairman of the Australian Bullion Company (Pty) Ltd., then Australia's leading gold dealer and member of the Sydney Futures Exchange.
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