Stephen Galloway
Chairman
Mr Galloway has extensive experience working in Namibia across mining, energy, investment and financial sectors. He began his career as a geologist, working with various Namibian companies, after which he held a number of positions within the Namibian Government including Chief Mineral Economist, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Executive Director of the Namibian Investment Centre. Until recently, he was a director of NedCapital Namibia (Pty) Ltd, a company that provides specialised project and corporate finance products and financial services to the Namibian market.
Jonathan Leslie
CEO / Managing Director
Mr Leslie is a highly experienced mining executive, with extensive operational and management knowledge of the global mining industry which includes experience in uranium marketing and project management. He was on the Board of Rio Tinto plc for nine years and CEO of two of Rio Tinto's major product groups. He has broad experience of uranium marketing having spent four years responsible for Rio Tinto's worldwide uranium sales into the Far East and Asia. His involvement in uranium continued with his appointment as Managing Director of Rössing Uranium where he developed close relationships with the Namibian government and related agencies. More recently Mr Leslie served as Executive Chairman for the major AIM listed mining company, Nikanor plc, formed to develop the world class KOV copper/cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to his role with Nikanor, Mr Leslie was CEO of Sappi Ltd, from 2003 to 2006.
Neil MacLachlan
Non Executive Director
Mr MacLachlan holds a Science degree with Honours from Cambridge University and has more than 27 years of investment banking experience gained in Europe, South East Asia and Australia, including 16 years with the investment banking division of HSBC including positions as deputy chairman / CEO for Wardly Australia Ltd (now HSBC Bank Australia Ltd), and as head of investment banking at James Capel & Co Ltd. He also has extensive mining industry experience, including as Executive Vice President, Asia for Barrick Gold Corporation, with responsibility for identifying and negotiating new acquisitions in Asia.
John Main
Non Executive Director
Mr Main is a geologist with 40 years of practical and management experience in the international mineral exploration and mining industry, across a wide range of commodities and mineralisation styles. He has been a senior exploration executive with a number of major mining companies, with extensive overseas experience. This includes four years based in Namibia working on uranium and base metals projects. He has lead exploration teams in the discovery, definition and evaluation of a number of world-class mineral projects, including the Skorpion Zinc Project in Namibia, the Century Zinc-Lead Project in Queensland, and the Resolution Copper Project in Arizona.
Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi
Non Executive Director
Ms Zaamwani-Kamwi is a qualified mining lawyer having obtained her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Law in the UK. She is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London. Inge is currently the Managing Director of Namdeb Diamond Corporation, a company jointly owned by the Government of Namibia and De Beers. Prior to this, she served as Mining Commissioner and the Director of Mines in the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy, and she is a board member of several of Namibia's premier companies, institutions and non-government organisations.
Ron Chamberlain
Non Executive Director
Mr Chamberlain is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia with over 20 years experience in international finance with global listed companies, private companies and chartered accountant firms. He is an independent consultant and most recently performed the role of Acting Chief Financial Officer for Atlantic Limited which owns the Windimurra Vanadium Project in Western Australia. Prior to this he was Extract’s Acting Chief Financial Officer. Between 2008 and 2004 he was Chief Financial Officer for Paladin Energy Limited where he was intimately involved in development of the Langer Heinrich Mine in Namibia. During the period 2004 to 1998 he worked in a variety of senior financial roles for the global mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Limited in Australia and the United States.
Alastair Clayton
Non Executive Director
Mr Clayton is a qualified geologist and mining executive with extensive experience in optimising and financing large scale mining projects. He is currently on the board of Ortac Resources, an AIM-listed exploration and development company. Previously, Mr Clayton was Chairman of Bannerman Resources - a uranium exploration company in Namibia and was extensively involved in the optimisation and construction of the Murrin Murrin project in Western Australia.
