Michael Haworth
Non-Executive Chairman
Michael Haworth was been appointed to the Board as Non-Executive Chairman in June 2012. He is a Non-Executive Director of Zanaga Iron Ore Company and is a director of Strata Limited (“Strata”), the majority shareholder of the Company.
Mr Haworth has over 12 years' investment banking experience, predominantly in emerging markets and natural resources. Prior to establishing Strata in 2006, Mr Haworth was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and Head of Mining and Metals Corporate Finance in London.
Graham Mascall
Non-Executive Director
Graham Mascall has over 35 years of commercial, financial, and transaction experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development and project management in mining and mining finance. Over the course of his career he held senior executive positions for a number of companies in the mining and mine finance sector, including Billiton plc, the post-merger entity BHP Billiton plc, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Outokumpu Metals and Resources International, Barclays Bank, International Molybdenum and Lubel Coal Company (UK).
Mr Mascall is a graduate in mining engineering from the Camborne School of Mines and holds a Master of Engineering in Mineral Economics from McGill University. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of AIM-listed Gemfields Resources.
Peter O'Connor
Non-Executive Director
Peter O’Connor has over twenty years experience in the power sector, working for Eskom, the South African electricity public utility which is the largest producer of electricity in Africa, an importer of electricity from Mozambique and is among the top seven utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity and among the top nine in terms of sales. Most recently he was Senior General Manager of the Capital Expansion Division, which was responsible for the EPCM of all the company’s generation and transmission expansion projects, as well as the construction of a 1050MW gas power station, which was built in record time. Prior to this, he held senior management positions in the Generation Division, where he successfully increased plant availability from 78% to 93% and at the Transmission Division, where he was responsible for the network delivery, network expansion and system operations. He gained operational experience as the manager of Kriel, Arnot and Kendal power stations. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and is a patent lawyer.
Estevão Pale
Non-Executive Director
Estevão Pale has more than 30 years' experience in the mining industry. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Companhia Mocambicana de Hidrocarbonetos, S.A., a Mozambican natural gas company. Between 1996 and 2005, he was the National Director of Mines in the Republic of Mozambique’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, where he was responsible for the supervision and control of mineral activities as well as the formulation and implementation of the mining and geological policy.
Mr Pale has been a director of numerous companies in the mining sector including Promaco SARL and the Mining Development Company, as well as the General Director and Chief Executive of Minas Gerais de Moçambique. Mr Pale has a postgraduate diploma in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, and a Masters degree in Financial Economics from the University of London (SOAS). He completed a course in Gas Business Management in Boston at the Institute of Human Resources Development Corporation in 2006.
Christiaan Schutte
Non-Executive Director
Christiaan Schutte’s career in the power sector spans over twenty years during which time he worked for Eskom, the South African electricity public utility which is the largest producer of electricity in Africa, and held a number of senior management positions. Most recently he was Senior General Manager of the Group Technology Division and responsible for all the engineering functions at Eskom, including design accountability for new power stations, transmission lines and distribution development. Prior to this he was Senior General Manger of the Generation Division, managing five power stations with over 18,000MW total installed capacity, an operational budget of 3.8 billion Rand and a capital budget just under 4 billion Rand. Operational experience was gained at Majuba power station, which he also integrated into a single cluster operation, and Kendal power station. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering.
Richard Stuart
Non-Executive Director
Richard Stuart has over 17 years' experience in corporate finance. He is the Chairman of Strata Limited, Ncondezi’s largest shareholder.
During his career, he has been a partner at Martin & Co and a former Joint Senior Partner of Fleming-Martin, which was one of South Africa’s leading brokerage firms. He played a key role in raising international equity capital for South African companies in the post-sanction era and in the relocation of Gencor (as Billiton) and The South African Breweries onto the London Stock Exchange.
Nigel Sutherland
Non-Executive Director
Nigel Sutherland has spent over 35 years working in the resource sector, of which the past ten years he has worked as a consultant and in Business Development for Partners in Performance International ('PIP'). During this period, he has delivered improvement results on a large underground coal mine, an aluminium smelter, a zinc smelter and a direct reduction iron plant.
Nigel also has managed 25 site diagnostics across a number of different resource industries including coal mines in Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, South Africa and Australia in order to identify improvement opportunities to increase production, reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.
Nigel is a principal of PIP and is currently responsible for business development. Prior to joining PIP, he gained wide experience in corporate, commercial, risk management and strategic planning through his roles at Anglo American plc, in merchant banking and in management consulting. He has worked in Namibia, South Africa and Australia. Mr Sutherland has an MBA from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgy) from the University of Witwatersrand.
Mark Trevan
Non-Executive Director
Mark Trevan has over 30 years' experience in the mining and metals sector. He is currently the Managing Director of Caledon Resources Plc, the Australian coking coal producer. Prior to joining Caledon in September 2006, he spent 25 years with Rio Tinto Ltd where he held senior executive roles in the areas of coal marketing, general commercial, corporate strategy and project feasibility.
Mr Trevan is a graduate in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia and holds a Diploma of Business (Accounting) from the Preston Institute of Technology.