Board / Management

Ross Warner (Chairman)

Ross Warner (LLB, LLM) is an experienced director of listed resource companies. He trained as a lawyer and worked in the corporate finance departments of law firms including Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Australia and Clifford Chance in the UK.

James Pratt (Non-Executive Director)

James Pratt (BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Fin. Investment) is a geologist with over 20 years experience in the mining and exploration industry in Australia, Africa and Central Asia. He has been a director of a number of listed companies both in the UK and in Australia. Mr Pratt speaks kiswahili and was Chief Mine Geologist for the 2 million ounce Golden Pride mine in the Lake Victoria goldfields of Tanzania between 1998 and 2001. Mr Pratt has been integral in building the Company's presence and portfolio of licences in Tanzania.

Alex Gostevskikh (Managing Director)

Alex Gostevskikh MSc MBA, is a geologist with over 20 years of experience in international mining and exploration for such commodities as gold, silver, and non-ferrous and base metals. He has extensive corporate experience through his involvement with a number of listed companies on the TSX and NYSE markets. He was a Regional Exploration Manager for Centerra Gold Inc (TSX listed), the largest Western gold producer in Central Asia and has held other positions including Exploration Manager for Gulf International Minerals, Senior Geologist for Kinross Gold/Amax Gold, as well as consulting engagements with a number of major and junior mineral exploration companies. His past involvements have helped him build a valuable network of contacts in the mining and related industries across multiple regions of Central Asia and the Middle East.

Andrew Lewis (Non-Executive Director)

Andrew Lewis BSc MBA ARSM, nearly 30 years of corporate experience having managed mining operations in Western and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. He is currently the General Manager of Atlantic Mining Ltd. a privately owned company with gold exploration and bauxite development projects in West Africa, and with additional opportunities being generated elsewhere in Africa, and SE Asia. Previously he was General Director of Nui Phao Mining JV Co, Ltd, building an open pit tungsten-bismuth-fluorspar-copper-gold mine in northern Vietnam. Prior to which he was President of Kumtor Operating Company in the Kyrgyz Republic, a subsidiary of Centerra Gold Inc, where he was responsible for corporate management, operations and development.

Dimitri Pashov (Non-Executive Director)

Dimitri Pashov, a qualified English solicitor and Russian lawyer, has worked for various international law firms, banks and companies since 1994. Since qualifying as a solicitor at Norton Rose, he has worked as General Counsel for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd in the UK and Head of Corporate Finance Legal at Rusal in Moscow. He is currently General Counsel at Eastlink Lanker plc.

Viacheslav Medvedev (Non-Executive Director)

Viacheslav Medvedev, a qualified geologist since 1980, specialising in prospecting and mineral exploration, worked for a number of exploration companies in Kyrgyzstan andRussia. In addition, Mr Medvedev has over 10 years of corporate experience having worked for a number of Russian focussed companies advising on matters of finance, accounting and business development. Mr Medvedev has also held various directorships during his career; from 1997 to 2005 he held the position of General Director of Skott, Riggs and Fletcher (Audit) Limited, a corporate consultancy and audit company specialising in the Russian corporate development and Russian and Western accounting systems. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Alef-Bank, a Russian Federation bank, and acts as an investment advisor of Eastlink Lanker plc,which was established to explore new industrial and financial investment opportunities in areas such as mineral exploration and extraction, equipment for oil extraction, banking and corporate consultancy. Mr. Medvedev is also a Director of Estes Limited, a cornerstone shareholder of Uranium Resources, which is part of the Tangent Fund Group.