| Brian Scallan
Vice President Finance
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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