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Malcolm Burne – Non
Executive Chairman
Mr. Burne commenced his career as an equity analyst and then later as
a financial journalist for The Financial Times and Telegraph. He has controlled
and managed fund management, venture capital and investment banking companies
in Australia, Hong Kong and North America. Mr. Burne has been a Director
of over 20 companies, many of which have been in the mineral resources
and gold exploration fields. In addition, he was executive chairman of
the Australian Bullion Company (Pty) Limited. which at the time was Australian’s
leading gold dealer and member of the Sydney Future Exchange. He is currently
a Director of several other resources companies in Australia, the UK and
Canada.
Colin Bird – Chief
Executive Office
HND Mining Engineering; Chartered Engineer; Fellow
of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; Certified Mine Manager United
Kingdom and South Africa.
Mr. Bird has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. In addition
to being Chief Executive Officer at Jubilee, he is currently the Managing
Director of Lion Mining Finance Limited. Between 1974 and 1979 Mr. Bird
worked in coal mine management for Anglo American Coal, where he worked
on planning and operations. From 1979 to 1984 Mr. Bird was the Mining
Manager of the Selebi Phikwe Nickel Copper Mine, jointly owned by Anglo
American, Amax and the Botswana Government, where he held the statutory
responsibility for the entire operation including the concentrator and
smelter. In 1978 Mr. Bird joined Costain Mining as a General Manager,
being appointed Technical/Operations Director soon there after. At Costain
Mining Mr. Bird was responsible for Costain’s gold, industrial minerals
and coal interests in Spain, Argentina and Venezuela together with responsibility
for new mining business development. In 1989 Mr. Bird joined Plateau Mining
plc as a Managing Director and in 1993 he joined Petromin Saudi Arabia
to manage their mining activities.
Chris Molefe – Non
Executive Director
B.Com (Unin); Post graduate diploma (University of Cape Town).
In addition to his position as a Non-Executive Director of Jubilee, Mr.
Molefe was formerly the Chief Executive of Royal Bafokeng Resources (Pty)
Limited and is presently the Non-Executive Chairman of Merafe resources
Limited and a non-executive Director of Astrapak Limited, both publicity
listed companies in South Africa. Mr. Molefe has held several positions
in Corporate Banking and industry for the previous 20 years. He commenced
his career as Group Human Resource Manger at Union Carbide Africa Corporation.
His subsequent positions include being the Manager of Corporate Affairs
at Mobil Oil Southern Africa (Pty) Limited; an Executive Director at Black
Management Forum; a Financial Analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank; the Marketing
Manager at African Bank Limited; an Executive Manager at Transnet (Propnet)
(Pty) Limited; and an Executive Director at Dipapatso Media (Pty) Limited.
Andrew Sarosi – Technical
Director
B.Sc Metallurgy (University of Witwatersrand); M.Sc Engineering
(University of Witwatersrand); Member of Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
United Kingdom.
Metallurgist Currently Consultant to mineral resources
industry and adviser to Lion Mr. Sarosi is a mineral processing engineer
and consultant with 35 years experience developing, managing, commissioning
and troubleshooting in gold and silver ore, tungsten, tin, copper and
zinc ore processing plants in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, South Africa and
the United Kingdom. Mr. Sarosi is currently a consultant to the mineral
resources industry and an advisor to Lion Mining Finance Limited. Between
1959 and 1969 Mr. Sarosi was employed by Gold Fields Limited South Africa
and from 1969 to 1976 he worked for Gold Fields in London. Between 1978
and 1985 Mr. Sarosi was the senior metallurgist at Amax Hemerdon Limited.
Between 1986 and 1988 and then between 1990 and 1995 he was the commissioning
engineer and mill superintendent at Mahd Ad’ Dahab Mine in Saudi
Arabia. In the interim from 1988 to 1990 he was a metallurgical advisor
and representative commissioning engineer at Mackay and Schnellmann Limited.
From 1996 Mr. Sarosi embarked on a career as an independent consultant
and in August 2002 he was appointed as a Technical Manager of Jubilee
and was subsequently appointed as the Technical Director in January 2006
Raju Samtani B.A Honours CIMA –
Financial Manager
Accountant Raju’s previous experience includes
three years as the Group Financial Controller at marketing services agency
- WTS Group Limited, where he was appointed by the Virgin Group to oversee
their investment in the WTS Group Ltd.
Dr Mathews Phosa – Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman
Dr Phosa, an attorney by profession and recently non-executive chairman of Braemore Resources plc is a leading figure in South Africa's business and political world. He served as Premier of Mpumalanga from 1994 to
1999 where he pioneered planning interaction between the private sector and government. He serves on the National Executive Committee of the ANC, is Treasurer General of the ANC and currently holds chairman, vice-chairman and board member duties in a number of prominent South African companies including Vuka Forestry Holdings Pty Ltd, the University of South Africa and Technikon Southern Africa Council.
Leon Coetzer – Director and Managing Director Smelting and Refining
Mr. Coetzer, a chemical engineer, has more than 20 years experience in the platinum industry within the Anglo American plc group. He was recently chief executive officer and managing director of Braemore Resources plc. He is a member of the advisory board of the process engineering faculties at both the University of Pretoria and the University of Stellenbosch and is also an executive member of the South African Council for Automation and Control.
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