North River Resources plc

James Beams joined North River having previously spent 14 years with Anglo American plc. For his final five years at Anglo American he was the Chief Financial Officer for the Copper division, and prior to that served in several senior management positions within the company. Prior to his time at Anglo American, he held senior finance roles at Minorco and Commercial Union.

Dag Kullmann is a mining engineer with 28 years' experience in the mining industry, predominantly in Southern Africa. Before joining North River Resources in 2017, he spent 10 years in Namibia with the Forsys Metals Group of Companies, initially as project and mining manager, then also its general manager. Prior to this, Dag spent 18 years in South Africa, first working in the Wits gold fields and finally 8 years consulting with Snowden Mining Industry Consultants on a wide variety of commodities across Africa and further abroad. He acted as Qualified Person for several large and small mining companies for the completion of technical studies, reserve reporting, operational audits and listing documentation for a number of international stock exchanges.

Mark Sawyer is a Senior Partner at Greenstone Capital LLP and a co-founder of Greenstone Resources LP ("Greenstone"), the private equity fund. Mark co-founded Greenstone in 2013 after a 18 year career in the mining sector including as co-head of group business development at Xstrata plc, and senior roles at Rio Tinto plc and Cutfield Freeman & Co Ltd. Together with Greenstone's co-founder, Mark oversees all aspects of the management of the business. He serves as a director of Greenstone Management Ltd, the fund's General Partner, and is a member, and co-Chairman of the Investment Committee.

Ken Sangster was trained as a metallurgist and has 49 years' experience in the mining industry in a number of highly successful project development / project management roles ranging in project size from USD20M to USD600M. He previously worked in numerous senior roles for Rio Tinto plc for over 15 years, as well having metallurgy focused project development roles for Anglo American PLC, Consolidated Gold Fields, Outokumpu Metals and Resources, TVX Gold and Ivernia plc. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.

Ricardo De Armas joined Castlelake in 2016 as part of the Emerging Markets team, focused on investments in the emerging markets. Prior to joining Castlelake, Mr. De Armas was a vice president at De Jong Capital, where he focused on deep value investments and provided restructuring and financial advisory. Prior to De Jong Capital, Mr. De Armas was a principal at Zaff Capital, where he focused on special situation investments in emerging markets. Prior to joining Zaff Capital, Mr. De Armas was an associate with Citigroup in the Latin American investment banking group in New York, where he advised companies in a wide range of industry sectors on financial and strategic matters.

Paul Lombard holds a BCom degree in Accounting from the University of Johannesburg (SA), a post graduate qualification from CIMA, UK and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch (SA).  Before joining North River Resources in February 2018, he spent 17 years in the Diamond Mining industry with Namdeb Diamond Corporation.  Paul held the position of Financial Manager on an Executive level before heading up the Strategic Projects department. Paul then headed up the Southern Coastal Mines area as Mine Manager before his departure in Dec 2017.