Eric F. Kohn, born 1945, is a UK and Swiss citizen. Eric is an experienced and successful turnaround specialist of international private and public companies. He led the turnaround of Holmes Protection Inc., Omnibus Group Ltd, the airline dba, amongst others. Eric is Board Director of Avcorp Industries Inc., a TSX listed aerospace company. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Management, the Chartered Management Institute, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Institute of Directors. He has had thirty years of experience in industrial marketing, manufacturing and management in Europe and the United States. In November 1987, he founded Barons Financial Services and has been the Managing Partner since its inception. Barons Financial Services specialises in a broad range of corporate finance and investment banking advisory services. Eric plays a leading role in the company, originating and executing transactions. He is fluent in English, French and German.

Patrick Lawless, MSc, MBA, CDir (Chief Executive Officer & Director)

Patrick Lawless is based at the Company’s operational headquarters in Maputo. Pat has significant turnaround and project management experience; joining Noventa from a high-end engineering consultancy. He is fully bilingual in English and Portuguese, holds a MBA from Manchester Business School, an MSc in Civil Engineering and is a Chartered Director. Raised and educated in Africa, Mr. Lawless’ earlier career included service in the armed forces as an officer in the British Army, leaving after a distinguished career in 2000 in the rank of Brigadier. Since leaving the armed forces, he has held a number of senior appointments at Thales, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Barclays, including the restructuring of Barclays Africa, and while at PricewaterhouseCoopers corporate turnaround practise, the lead advisory role on a significant number of turnaround and restructuring assignments covering a broad range of industrial sectors.

John N Allan (Non-Executive Director)

Mr. Allan has extensive experience in project management across Europe, his breadth of expertise including regulatory risk, IT, and security. Since 2002 he has worked as project manager for UBS advising on various projects including establishing a premier investment bank in Eastern Europe. This task has seen him manage the creation of a new bank in Russia and the organisation of both facilities and administration in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. He has previously provided security consultancy in UK and internationally. Mr. Allan was a member of the planning team for the mergers of SG Warburg with Swiss Bank Corporation to form SBC Warburg and subsequently SBC Warburg with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS Warburg. He was responsible for the year 2000 project for Warburg Dillon Read and continues to manage International Projects.

Guy Coltman is a partner in the corporate group at Carey Olsen, a Channel Islands law firm.  Guy has extensive experience in cross-border and offshore legal matters and advises a number of listed and non-listed groups.  Prior to moving to Jersey, Guy worked in the City of London practising as an English solicitor for leading international law firms. Guy is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales(non-practising) and an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey.

Timothy J . Griffiths (Non-Executive Director)

Mr. Griffiths has 35 years experience in international finance. He is the Founder and an Executive Director of the Chescor Capital Group. His broad experience includes senior appointments as corporate financier and professional accountant. In the 1990s he created, structured and promoted international investment funds and managed accounts for the Chescor Group, which raised over US$750 million. He advised on a number of corporate finance assignments, including both recommended and hostile takeovers of public companies in the UK, as well as undertaking a large number of business valuations in connection with investments by equity funds and as part of M & A assignments. Mr. Griffiths is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a Member of the Securities Institute, and registered in senior management, compliance and client facing capacities with the UK Financial Services Authority.

Dr. Joachim Martin (Non-Executive Director)

Dr. Martin is an expert in the field of tantalum and other rare metals.  He was formerly General Manager; Raw Material Sourcing at H. C. Starck, one of the world's leading rare metals companies and prior to that, the Manager of the H. C. Starck Goslar Plant.  He now consults widely in the rare metals field and holds a PhD in Mineralogy and Economic Geology.

Kean Hua Chung (Non-Executive Director)

Kean Hua Chung, 32, has had a successful career in the City as both an analyst and a fund manager, working for Fidelity Investments, Och-Ziff Capital Management and KDA Capital. In 2007, Thomson Extel named him top buyside individual for his sectors. Mr. Chung holds a Masters Degree in Engineering from Cambridge University. His experience as an institutional investor, and representing a significant shareholder in the Company, will ensure that Kean brings a valuable new perspective to the Board.

Management

In addition to the above, the key personnel within the Group that will be responsible for the operation and development of the business are:

Délio is a Mozambican and speaks fluent Portuguese. He graduated at Uniswa and Unisa, Bsc M/Phys and MDP, respectively. He has worked in the Engineering field in projects and maintenance since 1996. Since graduating he has been directly involved in the construction, commissioning, start-up and operations of two mega projects in Mozambique namely: BHP Billiton's Aluminium Smelter and Kenmare Moma Titanium Mine. He has over 12 years experience in mining in Mozambique and has been involved in strategic development of key skills for the sustainability of these operations with Mozambican employees as well as having facilitated design and stable supply of electrical power transmission from Nampula to the Moma mine. Delio has strategically been involved in achieving nameplate design of all the operations he was involved in with success and financial sustainability.

Mário José (Pit Manager, HAMC Limitada^†)

Mario Jose, born in Mozambiqueand is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish. He is a multi-faceted mining professional with 21 years of valuable experience in the safe operation of development, production, construction, shaft and mine services. He is an effective leader and communicator. His career includes  Mining Operations Supervisor Vale – Inco; Supervisory leadership at Barrick Gold Corporation and Shift Supervisor. Mario is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Since joining the mining industry Mario has been involved in establishing safe working practices and adherences to safety guidelines by his team members. He has implemented best practice blasting procedures in his career resulting in an excellent safety record.

Neville Norris (Metallurgical Manager, HAMC Limitada^†)

Neville Norris has 22 years mining experience and having spent substantial time in Mozambique is fluent in Portuguese.  Neville holds a National Higher Diploma in Metallurigcal Engineering, an MDP from Stellenbosch University and FLMP from UNISA.  Neville's experience includes three start up operations one Gold Plant and two Minerals Sands Mines. In these environments he was instrumental in the commissioning, training, ramp ups and taking these projects to full production and beyond. His experience includes ten years in Gold with five of these years served in a senior management roles, ten years Mineral Sands and two years in Diamond mining.  He is experienced  in Crushing, Milling, Leaching, Thickeners, CIP, Electrowining, Gold Smelting, Hydraulic mining, Dredge mining, Gravity separation, Dry magnetic Separation, Wet Magnetic Separation, and Dry Mineral Processing Plants.  He has been working as an expat in Mozambique for the last three and a half years in remote, difficult and challenging environments.

David Whitehouse, BSc (Hons) Mech Eng (Chief Projects Officer)

David has 33 years experience of multi disciplinary project management and development, having been involved in the implementation of major projects from conception and feasibility study, through detail engineering and construction to completion. After 25 years in engineering contracting, David joined BHP Billiton in 2000 as Senior Manager, Project Management before moving to the Bateman Group in 2002 as Chief Operating Officer. David left Bateman at the end of 2003 to work as a consultant to the mining industry, including Noventa, before joining the Group in 2007.

Leovigildo N. Juliasse (Human Resources Manager, HAMC Limitada^†)

Leovigildo Juliasse is a Lawyer and holds a LLB and BA of honor in Law from the Catholic University of Mozambique. He joined the company in August 2008 being responsible for Human Resources at the Marropino Mine. He has been also involved in legal work for Highland African Mining Company Limitada. Previously, he worked as a Head of Human Resources and Legal Advisor in Nampula. In 2008 he worked as a Legal Consultant at a Leading Law Firm in Maputo and Inhambane, mainly in Labor issues, Business, Land and Investment Laws.

^†HAMC Limitada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Noventa Limited.