Directors / Management Profiles

 

 

Directors

Mr Jeremy Dowler - Chairman

Jeremy's career as a finance director has taken him from the City of London to South Africa and Australia in senior administrative positions in insurance, publishing and resources, including Brockbank Group plc and Thomson Books (London book publishing division of International Thomson Organisation). Jeremy has served on the boards of various resource companies and was a founding shareholder and the former Finance Director of Platmin Limited, a platinum exploration and development company with projects in South Africa. This company is listed on AIM and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He brings significant administrative and financial skills to the Company.

 

 

 

 

Mr Ben James B.Sc - Managing Director

Ben is a geologist with over 15 years experience in the exploration and mining industry.  Graduating with a degree in geology from the University of Otago in 1994, he has since held exploration and development roles in a variety of terrains including the Archaean Greenstone belts of Western Australia, Proterozoic gold and base metal systems in Zambia, porphyry gold-copper deposits in the Romanian Carpathians and Ordovician orogenic mesothermal gold mineralisation in New Zealand's South Island.  Ben has worked for various companies including Oceana Gold, RSG Global, Katanga Resources, Hill 50 Gold and Herald Resources.  Ben joined Baobab Resources plc as Exploration Manager in 2006, joined the board as Technical Director in 2008 and assumed the role of Managing Director in 2009.  He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

 

 

 

Mr Jonathan Beardsworth - Non-executive Director

Jonathan is a principal at Cutfield Freeman & Co, the corporate finance advisory and M&A boutique focused exclusively on the mining industry. CF&Co has offices in London, Toronto and Hong Kong, from where Jonathan services the Asia-Pacific region, in particular China. From 2006 to 2010 he was CEO of AIM-listed Metals Exploration plc where he took the Runruno gold/molybdenum project in the Philippines from exploration through to BFS. Prior to that he was head of Standard Bank's Metals and Mining team in London. He has an Economics degree from University College London and was formerly a Major in the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.

 

 

 

 

Mr Jon Crowe - Non-executive Director

Alexander Irwin (Jon) Crowe, was the founding Director of Baobab and its Mozambican subsidiary, Capitol Resources Limitada. Mr Crowe has been involved in the exploration industry for over thirty years, providing contract field services as the principal of Menzies Exploration Company Pty Ltd and he has extensive prospecting experience in Australia and southern Africa. He was a Director of ASX-listed Bamboo Gold Mines Limited and a founding Director of ASX-listed Zambezi Resources Limited.

 

 

 

 

Management

Mr Graham Anderson (GDA Corporate) - Joint Company Secretary & CFO Services

Graham is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of commercial and corporate experience. He was a Corporate Services Partner with the National Accounting firm Howarth before establishing GDA Corporate in 1999. He has held the offices of Chairman and Non Executive Director of a number of publicly listed companies as well as company secretary for over a dozen ASX listed companies over the past ten years. Graham has strong expertise in accounting standards, corporate governance, the Corporate Act and ASX Listing Rules , as well as AIM client experience.

 

 

 

 

 Mr Iain Plews - Exploration Manager

Iain is a geologist with over 30 years experience in exploration and mining in Africa and has held senior positions with both major and junior mining companies including Anglo American Corporation, Ashanti Goldfields, ITM Corporation, Reunion Mining and Takoradi Gold NL. He has operated in over a dozen countries in sub-Saharan African and has wide experience in exploration and mining for a variety of commodities including Gold, PGEs, diamonds and base metals. He is presently a partner in Gondwana Limitada, a Mozambiquan consultancy firm, and joined Baobab as Exploration Manager in 2009. Iain resides in Mozambique.

 

 

 

 

 

Mr Martin Spence - Senior Project Geologist

Martin is a geologist with over 30 years' experience working on gold, base metal and diamond exploration and mine development, including the Olympic Dam polymetallic mine, Rocky’s Reward Nickel and the Pajingo epithermal gold mine. He has managed programmes throughout Southern Africa including Bannermans Goannakontes Uranium deposit in Namibia, Delta Gold’s diamond exploration in Zimbabwe and phosphate, gold, diamond and base metal exploration for African Consolidated Resources in Zimbabwe.  Martin is currently managing Baobab's Mundonguara nickel/copper/ gold project.

 

 

 

 

 Mr Norman Gwaza - Senior Project Geologist

Norman graduated with a BSC in Geology from the University of Zimbabwe in 1999. He has been working in the mining and exploration industry for over 10 years. Norman has been working for Baobab Resources since 2007. Currently he is Senior Project Geologist based in Tete.

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