Sir Sam Jonah is internationally recognized as one of Africa's leading businessmen. He is Non-Executive President of AngloGold Ashanti Limited, which is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. From 1986 until 2004, when he was the Chief Executive Officer of Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited, he led the transformation of Ashanti from a one-mine operation into a multinational gold miner. He became Executive President of AngloGold Ashanti Limited in May 2004, when Ashanti was acquired by AngloGold Limited.

He currently serves on the International Investment Advisory Councils of President Thabo Mbeki (South Africa), President Kufuor (Ghana) and President Obasanjo (Nigeria). He is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact Advisory Council. He was formerly on the Advisory Council of the President of the African Development Bank and was also a member of the Advisory Council of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

He has been decorated with several awards and honours, including an honorary knighthood by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The award was in recognition of his exceptional achievements as an African businessman, a leading business executive from the Commonwealth and an international public figure.

Mr Dinning has over 18 years industry experience, including 12 years with the WMC group of companies in a number of senior management roles including the management of some of WMC's principal gold assets. Mr Dinning also has experience working in Russia and raising money in the London capital markets. He has been the Chief Operating Officer for Moto since October 2005. Mr Dinning has a Mining Engineering Degree, First Class Mine Managers Certificate and a Masters of Business Administration.

Mr Arnesen is a Chartered Accountant with over 18 years experience in the international resources industry. He has extensive experience in the structuring and negotiation of finance for major resource projects in Africa. These projects typically require financial structures incorporating multi-lateral banks and export credit agencies, as well as the commercial banks.

Mr Arnesen was employed with the Billiton/Gencor group of companies between 1988 and 1998, where he was involved with: the US$1.8 billion financing of the Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa; the establishment of a US$1.5 billion revolving credit facility and the US$300 million financing of Cerro Matosa.

In 1999 Mr Arnesen joined Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited as part of the then restructuring of the company. As Managing Director – International Treasury, he restructured the Ashanti hedge book and assisted in the refinancing of the company.

From August 2004 until present Mr Arnesen has been consulting to Equinox on raising finance for their Lumwana project.

Mr Watum, who was born in the DRC, has over 18 years experience in the industry. He is a chemical engineer by profession and initially gained significant metallurgical and mining experience in various roles held whilst working in the Katanga copper mining belt, in the Witbank coalfields, and in Applied Research at Anglo American Research Laboratories respectively. He was then appointed to the senior position of Operations Manager by AngoGoldAshanti to oversee the development, construction and production phases of their Yatela gold mine in Mali. In these roles, Mr Watum's responsibilities included site administration, regional and local community development and social programmes, central government liaison, project construction and management. Mr Watum joined Moto in March 2006.

 

A founding Principal of The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm, Walter Kansteiner has over twenty years experience with African and emerging market business issues. Mr. Kansteiner has advised corporations on a wide range of mergers, acquisitions, and privatizations throughout Africa. Transactions that he has been involved with include telecommunications, forestry, mining, financial services, healthcare, and aviation services. Mr. Kansteiner advised the buy side on the privatization of Telkom South Africa, one of the largest privatizations in Africa.

Mr. Kansteiner recently served three years as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. In this capacity, he was responsible for U.S. foreign policy in Africa. He was also the U.S. President’s personal representative to the G8 Africa Process and has served in the U.S. government as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council staff. He also served as the Africa specialist on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and with the Department of Defense as a member of the strategic minerals task force. He holds graduate degrees in international economics and ethics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, chairs the Africa Policy Advisory Panel (a congressionally mandated advisory group), and serves on various private corporation boards in the U.S. and Africa.

Mr Hodgson was employed by the AngloAmerican and DeBeers group of companies for over 30 years, and from November 2001 until his retirement in April 2005 he was Chief Operating Officer of AngloGold Ashanti responsible for twenty two operations in eleven countries producing over 6 million ounces of gold per annum. Mr Hodgson has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a BSc Mining (Honours) Royal School of Mines in London, and B Comm (majors in Economics and Business Economics) from UNISA in South Africa.

Dr Jeff O’Leary has a BSc in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines and a Ph.D. in Geostatistics from the same institution. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy and a Chartered Engineer. Dr O’Leary joined the HSBC group in 1984 and until his retirement in 2005 was involved in a wide variety of project financing, equity and M&A transactions, including the first debt/equity swap in the mining industry which was used to finance the start-up operations at Antofagasta’s Los Pelambres mine. Before joining the HSBC group, Dr O’Leary worked on many projects and mining operations world-wide, including as the Chief Geologist at Stelco’s Wabush operations, and as Chief Mine Geologist and Geostatistician for Rio-Tinto.

Sean Harvey has extensive experience in investment banking and the resources sector. He is Chairman of Andina Minerals Inc. and a director of Polaris Geothermal Inc. (both TSXV listed companies), and a director of Australian Solomons Gold Limited (TSX listed). Mr. Harvey has also acted as President and CEO of TVX Gold Inc. at the time of its sale to Kinross Gold Corporation in 2003. Subsequently, Mr. Harvey was President and CEO of Atlantico Gold Inc., a private Brazilian mining company involved in the development of the Amapari Project that was sold to Wheaton River Minerals Ltd in early 2004. Mr. Harvey was President & CEO of Orvana Minerals Corp. from April 2005 until May 2006.