The Company - Board of Directors

Keith Cousens Spencer
BSc Eng (Mining)

Executive Chairman
Member: Technical Committee

Keith Cousens Spencer is a qualified mining engineer with 34 years of practical mining experience. In 1984, Keith was appointed as General Manager of Greenside Colliery and in 1986 moved to Kloof Gold Mine as General Manager. In 1989, he was appointed as Consulting Engineer for Gold Fields of South Africa to the following mines: Doornfontein Gold Mine, Driefontein Consolidated Gold Mine, Greenside Colliery and Tsumeb Base Metals mine. He also served as Managing Director of Driefontein Consolidated, Chairman and Managing Director of Deelkraal Gold Mine, and as a Board Member of all Gold Mines belonging to Gold Fields of South Africa. In 1999, Keith joined Metorex Limited first as a private consultant and after 2 years as a permanent member of the executive managing the Wakefield Coal operations, O’okiep Copper Company, Barberton Gold Mines, and Metmin Manganese Mine. In 2001, Keith became the Operations Director for the Metorex Group. Keith has managed some of the largest gold mines in the world and this expertise will now be available to the Pan African team.

Jan Nelson
BSc. (Hons)

Chief Executive Officer
Member: Technical Committee

After obtaining his honours degree in Geology, Jan Nelson embarked on a career in gold exploration and mining in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. He has over 14 years’ experience and, within this period, held positions in mine management and operations with Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited, Hunter Dickenson and Gold Fields Limited. He also has experience in dealing with institutional analysts, institutional investors as well as shareholders.

Maritz Smith
B.Com (Hons)

Financial Director

Mr Smith (aged 31) is an employee and alternate director of Metorex Limited. He obtained a BCom (Hons) Accounting Degree from the University of Johannesburg in 1998 and after completing his articles with Deloitte & Touche in 2001, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Mr Smith remained with Deloitte & Touche until 2002 when he joined the Metorex Group as Group Accountant. After three years, Mr Smith was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Metorex Limited in 2005, the position he retains today.

Rob Still
B.Com (Hons), CTA

Non Executive
Member: Remuneration Committee
Member: Audit Committee

Rob Still has over 22 years’ experience in mining, specialising in mining finance. He started his career as a chartered accountant, becoming a partner of Ernst & Whinney before leaving in 1986 to co-found Rhombus Exploration Limited. Since then he has been involved in the mining industry world-wide and has held executive and non-executive directorships in companies listed in South Africa, Australia, Canada and the UK. He has participated in the evaluation and development of several new mining projects including Rhovan, Ticor Titanium, Pangea Gold Fields Limited, Southern Mining Corporation Limited (Corridor Sands), Great Basin Gold Limited (Burnstone) and Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Limited. Mr Still is currently chief executive of Pangea Diamondfields PLC, an AIM-quoted company.

Simon Malone
B.Sc., MBL, SAIMM, Pr.Eng.

Non Executive
Chairman: Technical Committee

Simon Malone is a mining engineer with a business degree who has been involved in the mining and exploration sector throughout his career. His expertise lies in the identification, evaluation and development of mining assets and interface between corporate and operational management. He was initially employed by JCI Limited, thereafter Chapman Wood and Griswald in Canada before returning to South Africa where he formed Metorex in 1975.

Charles Needham

Non Executive
Member: Remuneration Committee
Chairman: Audit Committee

Charles Needham is the chief executive officer of Metorex and has been the financial director of Metorex for the past 20 years, prior to which he spent six years with an auditing firm. He has been involved in the mining sector his entire career and has specific expertise in financing, financial reporting, management reporting, hedging and company matters.

John Hopwood

Independent, Non Executive Director

Mr Hopwood was appointed a director in May 2008 . He is also a director of Gold Fields Limited and a member of the Board of Trustees of The New Africa Mining Fund and chairman of the Fund's Investment Committee. Previous experience includes being a director and head of Mergers and Acquisitions division at Ernst and Young Corporate Finance , South Africa , and he was an executive director of Gold Fields of South Africa Limited from January 1992 to September 1998.

Directors Responsibilities

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