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Saudi Arabia

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I am entrusted with providing the management of and leadership to the geophysical services of an airborne geophysical services company, providing exclusive state of the art technology that has been developed in house or in collaboration with partners.

South Africa

Local Organising Committee member for the 17 SAGA 2022 Conference - together with the committee Chair, responsible for securing Investment/Sponsorship for the Conference, which was held at Sun City in South Africa from 28 November to 01 December 2022.

South Africa

I was a Consultant running a private management consultancy service specialising in all aspects of resource management: health and safety; strategy formulation; planning; initiation; execution; evaluation; reporting and conclusion; statutory compliance and identification of service providers.Numerous confidential contracts for clients covering Botswana.

Ulaanbaatar

I was a Director reporting to shareholders and investors running a private Mongolian company managing Mongolian investment opportunities on behalf of Australian and American private equity investors. These investments amounted to more than $50 million across 4 companies comprising more than 150 employees and contractors. Commodities in the portfolio.

Ulaanbaatar

Project ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬I implemented a new comprehensive Occupational Health and Safety system in the portfolio companies. No, notifiable safety accidents were recorded after the implementation of the system.►Identified and evaluated new gold, base metal and copper resource investment opportunities.►Completed a JORC compliant resource definition of.

Botswana

I was a Consultant running a private management consultancy service specialising in all aspects of project and strategic management, exploration and mining companies in Botswana, as well as for management consulting consortia providing services to Botswana government initiatives.►Provided project and business management services for the “Business Plan for.

Botswana

The company undertaking Greenfield, Brownfield and Near-mine exploration for De Beers in Botswana, a world leader in diamond exploration. At commencement of the role, this operation had a budget of $18 million and 120 employees and 60 contractors spanning 4 projects, including the feasibility study on AK6, a kimberlite which was subsequently sold to Lucara.

• A unique Airborne Gravity Gradiometer project, conceived by De Beers, utilising a Zeppelin airship to collect airborne geophysical data. This project, with an annual budget of $10 million, was awarded the Pioneering.
• Achieved tenfold productivity improvements over traditional gravity surveying methods of equal resolution, which facilitated sound exploration decisions to be made; the rapid advancement of projects and the safe.
• Built the largest hangar in Botswana for the Zeppelin at Sir Seretse Khama Airport within five months from securing capital, obtaining permissions through to completion. This was necessary for the Zeppelin to undertake.

• The company managing De Beers’ exploration activities in the DRC, uponresumption of activities immediately after the civil war and prior to the first democratic elections. This consisted of a budget of $15 million and.
• Identified new possible Joint Venture partners, which expanded the exploration license portfolio in areas previously not accessible to the company.
• Managed Provincial and National Government and Stakeholder relations.
• Oversaw the resumption of activities immediately post the civil war in DRC; formulation of the Strategic Plan; acquisition of personnel, licenses’, equipment and premises.

Oversaw the startup and commencement of exploration activities when activities resumed after the civil war. This included liaison with government departments and provincial authorities, joint venture partner identifiction and relationship management.

• The company managing De Beers’ exploration activities in the Republic of Guinea. A budget of $5 million and a staff complement of 50 employees and 30 contractors.
• Restructured the exploration operation which resulted in the execution of the final work programmes within budget.
• Liquidated three subsidiary companies thereby streamlining the corporate structure.
• Managed and ultimately terminated exploration Joint Ventures with local companies, which facilitated the withdrawal of De Beers from Guinea without any legal ramifications.

• The company responsible for providing the technical guidance for De Beers exploration activities in the entire Africa.
• Negotiated substantial reductions in airborne surveying costs (> 50%) with no sacrifice in the quality of the data collected.
• Investigated and initiated the use of CSAMT, a geophysical technique for kimberlite delineation, thereby improving structural knowledge of kimberlites at a reduced drilling cost.

The Geophysical Services Division within Anglo American Head offices wasresponsible for providing the technical guidance for Anglo’s’ exploration activities worldwideResponsible for Airborne Geophysical Surveying.Oversaw the collection and quality control of airborne geophysical data for Anglo American and De Beers throughout Africa, for gold, base metal.

CSIR is a South African parastatal research organisation, who together with industry is tasked to find new and innovative technical solutions to problems encountered in various fields.Oversaw the successful field trials of a new in-mine and near-mine high resolution geophysical delineation technique within Canadian copper, copper-nickel, and copper-zinc.

Accelerated Development Programme

Prince2 Practitioner, Project Management

Executive Certificate, Global Negotiations

1. Cross-cultural Communication. 2. Essentials of Global Negotiation. 3. Managing Conflict with a Global Mindset.

Bsc Hons, Geophysics, Geology

Activities and Societies: Editor - Roc Soc Times - the geology students magazine.