Corporate Directors And Management
Board - UK Representatives, Exploration, Mining and Corporate Experience
Chairman
Simon Rollason, BSc (Hons) Geology, MIMMM, FGS, Aged 43.
Simon graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1990 with a B.Sc (Hons) degree in Geology. He has gained 20 years international experience working in both mining and geological exploration. During this time, Simon has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Far East with both multi-nationals and junior resources companies.
Simon has worked on gold, nickel, copper, base metals, uranium and gemstone projects,
ranging from grassroots to producing assets. He has been involved with and managed operations that have varied from exploration and evaluation projects to successful feasibility studies.
Simon is the Managing Director of Obtala Resources Plc, and was appointed to the Board of the Company in June 2009. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Society of Economic Geologists and the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.
Finance Director
Rakesh Patel, BA Economics, FCCA, CF, Aged 46.
Rakesh Patel qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 1991. From 1992, he led the corporate finance division of Gerald Edelman, chartered accountants, dealing with acquisitions, disposals, mergers, private placings and stock market flotations.
Rakesh was involved in advising on the acquisition of Ryman the Stationer and left the firm in 1996 to become group financial controller of Chancerealm Limited, a group including Ryman Limited where he was involved in the acquisition and integration of Contessa Ladieswear Limited. Rakesh returned to Gerald Edelman in 1997 until leaving in March 2003 to join Adler Shine LLP, chartered accountants, where he heads the firm’s corporate finance division.
Rakesh has acted in over 30 transactions including companies quoted on AIM as Reporting Accountant and has also acted as interim or part-time director to a number of private and public companies. He is currently chief executive officer of The Niche Group plc and non-executive director of Deo Petroleum plc and Mountfield Group plc, which are quoted on AIM. Rakesh will have responsibilities for the finance function of the Enlarged Group.
Chief Executive Officer
Mark Pryor, BSc (Hons) Geology & Mineralogy, FGS, FSEG, Pr.Sci.Nat, Aged 50.
Mark Pryor is an Independent Geological Consultant working with private mining and exploration groups, based out of the United Kingdom and holds a B.Sc (Hons) degree from the University of Aberdeen. He has 25 years of management experience in advanced stage exploration and mine development projects worldwide. He is a ‘Qualified Person’ as defined by the Securities Commission and regularly submits Independent Technical Reports for companies wishing to list on the Stock Exchange as well as Independent Technical Reports and press releases for quoted companies.
Mark has worked for major and mid-tier mining
companies and has many contacts within the venture capital sector of the mining industry.
Mark has extensive global experience having worked in Mexico, EurAsia, China, Southern Africa and South America, holding management positions in recognised companies in the industry including Placer Dome, Minefinders, Monarch Resources and Anglo American.
Mark is an associate of SRK (UK) Ltd and is a Fellow of the Geological Society, Society of Economic Geologists and is a registered Natural Scientist (Pr. Sci. Nat).
Non Executive Director
Sally Schofield, BEng (Hons) Industrial Geology, ACSM, FGS, MIMMM, Aged 38.
Sally’s career has seen her work in commercial, technical and operational capacities in geographically and politically diverse regions including Kazakhstan, Albania, Central America, Brazil and Chile. She gained early exposure to the technical, corporate and investor relations functions of the mining business before crossing sectors to work with RMC, now part of CEMEX, the global building materials giant.
Sally returned to mining in 2003 and became a Director of AIM – listed Latitude Resources plc, a company with copper and gold assets in
Chile. As Chief Operating Officer of that company she relocated to Santiago, Chile, in 2006 with direct responsibility for an exploration program that developed a portfolio of exploration projects into a saleable asset. Sally then worked for a natural resource focused fund identifying potential assets.
Her business skills have been recognised by several external parties, including Management Today, Courvoisier Future 500 and HM The Queen. Sally graduated from the Camborne School of Mines with a First Class B. Eng (hons) Industrial Geology in 1995, is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS) and a professional member of IOM3 (MIMMM).
Responsibilities Of The Members Of The Board
The Board of Directors of Edenville Energy PLC monitors the business affairs of the company on behalf of shareholders. The Board is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the Company, monitoring the performance of the Company's assets and assessing opportunities for and risks affecting the Company's business and assessing means to effectively deal with the same.
In addition to those matters that must be approved by the Board of Directors by law, significant business activities and actions proposed by the Company are subject to Board approval. In particular the Board will approve Annual capital and operating budgets, strategic aims, major changes in the organizational structure of the Company, annual and interim financial statements, major acquisition and disposal transactions, major financing transactions involving the issuance of shares, debt securities and the like, major banking transactions, long term contracts with significant cumulative financial commitments, appointment of senior executive officers, benefit plans, stock option plans, issuance of stock options and succession plans.
The Board is also responsible for monitoring the activities of the executive management.
The Board currently consists of three Executive and one Non Executive Directors. The Directors recognise the need for implementing good corporate governance with the highest standards of behaviour and accountability. All Directors are expected to bring an independent judgement to bear, and to take decisions objectively in the interests of the Company. If directors have concerns about the way the Company is being run or about any course of action that is proposed, they must ensure that such concerns are recorded.
The Audit Committee
Sally Schofield will sit as the sole member of the Audit Committee until she is joined by a new non executive director whom the board intends to appoint during the year. The committee reviews the Company's annual and interim financial statements before submission to the Board for approval. The committee also reviews regular reports from executive management and the external auditors on accounting and internal control matters.
The Remuneration Committee
Sally Schofield will sit as the sole member of the Remuneration Committee until she is joined by a new non executive director whom the board intends to appoint during the year. It is responsible for reviewing the performance of the Executive Directors and for setting the scale and structure of their remuneration, paying due regard to the interests of shareholders as a whole and the performance of the Company.