Directors' Biographies
Andrew Cranswick, Chief Executive Office, 3/7/1962
Cranswick is Zimbabwean. He has, at various stages over the past twenty-five years, been active in the mining and minerals sector in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa and was a geologist assistant for Anglo Gold (Vaal Reefs) in the 1980’s. Returning to Zimbabwe in the late 1980’s he exploited the combination of Zimbabwe’s emerging market status and the tech boom by founding a group of IT companies including the country’s first commercial Internet Service Provider and the first major computer assembly line. Selling the internet company to an international concern at the peak of the dot.com boom in 2000, he returned to the mining sector as it began its upturn.
Roy Tucker, Group Finance Director and Company Secretary, 23/7/1940
Roy Tucker is a Chartered Accountant whose background is as a tax consultant. He has co-founded and been involved in the management of various financial businesses particularly in the banking and commodity sectors. He is chairman and co-founder of South Africa based Legend Lodges Group which holds significant tourism interests. He is also a director of Lisungwe plc which has mineral exploration interests in Malawi. Roy Tucker is based in the UK.
Michael Kellow, Technical Director, 22/12/1955
Michael Kellow is an exploration geologist with over twenty-five years’ experience in diverse gold, base-metals and uranium exploration in Archaean and Proterozoic terranes both in Australia and Africa. He was team leader in multiple discoveries of virgin mineral systems in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and has worked with a range of both junior and major mining companies including Anglo American Corporation (now Anglo Gold), Gold Fields and Sons of Gwalia. Michael Kellow was a founding director of Intierra Ltd, one of the world’s largest commercial databases on mining projects, companies and management.
Stuart Bottomley, Non-Executive Director, 2/2/1945
Stuart Bottomley worked as a stockbroker for nine years, before joining Dawnay Day where he worked as a portfolio manager for the Target Group of Unit Trusts. During his time with Target, he successfully managed the Special Situations Fund and Target Energy. In 1984, he joined Fidelity International in London, working with the ERISA group, focused on UK and European markets. Since leaving Fidelity, Stuart has consulted for numerous private and public companies, advised a number of Australian companies on admissions to AIM and assisted in IPOs and other fundraisings. He is currently a non-executive director of Centamin Egypt Ltd and Isis Resources Plc.