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| Simon Village
Chairman
Simon Village is currently Chairman of the Board of Banro Corporation, a gold exploration and development company focused on the DRC. He was formerly a Managing Director, World Gold Council, and a founding member of Exchange Traded Gold, the company responsible for listing securities backed by "physical" gold on numerous stock exchanges around the world. Previous to this he was a Managing Director with HSBC in London responsible for Global Mining and the South African Securities business of HSBC. Mr Village holds a B.Eng (Hons) degree from Camborne School of Mines and brings some 17 years of mining industry and investment experience to the Company.
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| Dr Michiel (Mike) de Wit
President
Mike de Wit, President of BRC DiamondCore, has extensive experience in the diamond industry, having begun his career as an exploration geologist for the Geological Survey in South Africa prior to joining De Beers, where he worked for 29 years. Dr de Wit managed various exploration programs for De Beers in Africa which led to a number of kimberlite discoveries. Prior to his most recent appointment as general manager for De Beers in the DRC, Dr de Wit was responsible for all exploration programs for De Beers in Africa. In addition to MSc degrees in geophysics and sedimentology from the Universities of Pretoria and Reading (UK) respectively, Dr de Wit holds a PhD degree from the University of Cape Town. He brings some 31 years of exploration experience to the Company.
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| Brian Scallan
Vice President Finance and Director
Mr Brian Scallan, BSc (Chem Eng) BCom (Economics) MBA, is a Director and Vice President Finance of BRC DiamondCore Limited. His career started as a chemical engineer at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa. After completing a degree in economics and an MBA he practiced as a management consultant for a period of 7 years concentrating on marketing and strategy work. He joined Standard Merchant Bank to design and implement its marketing strategy and was a member of the Bank's senior management committee. He transferred to operations becoming Head of Structured Trade and Commodity Finance. He was also involved with major mining project finance activities in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. After 15 years with the Standard Bank Group he consulted in project finance, primarily mining projects in Africa. More recently he was Head of Funding for Nikanor PLC prior to its takeover by Katanga Mining Ltd. He has consulted to Banro Corporation in respect to its funding requirements.
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| Arnold T. Kondrat
Director
The principal founder of BRC Diamond, Mr. Kondrat is also the founder and Executive Vice President of Banro Corporation, a gold exploration company based in the DRC, and Director and President of privately-held Sterling Portfolio Securities Inc., a Toronto-based venture capital company. He has been involved in corporate finance activities for more than 20 years
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| Greg Hunter
Director
Mr Hunter holds a BSc in Mining Engineering (Wits University) and has worked extensively in the resource sector in financial and technical capacities. He was formerly CEO of Metallon Gold, and a director of Ridge Mining plc. Prior to this he was Head of Mining Research at Deutsche Securities, focusing primarily on the gold and platinum sectors. He also spent two years at UAL Merchant Bank as a rated resource equity analyst and has operational experience in industry, having spent a number of years with AngloGold Limited.
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| Geoffrey Farr
Corporate Secretary and Director
Mr. Farr is a partner in the Canadian law firm of Macleod Dixon LLP, which acts as counsel to the Corporation. He specialises in corporate and securities law and has extensive experience in representing public companies. He is also the Corporate Secretary of Banro Corporation.
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| Stephen Thomson
Director
Mr. Thomson is the senior partner with the South African law firm of Thomson, Wilks, which acts as counsel to the Corporation. He is a qualified commercial attorney in addition to having a diploma in company direction. Mr. Thomson has extensive experience in corporate law and commercial litigation and his firm represents a number of mining companies and companies involved in the mining industry.
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| William R. Wilson
Director
Bill Wilson is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of New Horizon Uranium Corporation, a junior uranium exploration company traded on the TSX-V. Previously he was a director of BRC DiamondCore from February 1999 to February 2008. His corporate experience includes creating and managing 11 mining companies over 25 years as a director, officer and/or CEO with mines and properties in the U.S., Canada, Russia, the DRC and Ukraine. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the Canadian Institute of Mining and the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration. He has a professional degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. Mr. Wilson has been involved in the mining industry for 35 years.
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