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| | | Michael Spriggs, BA (Hons) MA MSc Chairman, aged 66
Michael has 37 years' mining sector experience having graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) in 1964 and an MA in 1968. He obtained an MSc in Geology and Mineral Sciences from the University of Leicester in 1969. He worked for a number of major mining groups, including Anglo American, Falconbridge and Rio Tinto. Michael spent 11 years with the mining team of the UK investment bank SG Warburg (now UBS) from 1986-97. He was appointed Head of the South African Mining Equities Research Team and was subsequently appointed Director of Corporate Finance. Between 1997 and 2004 he was a partner at College Hill, the UK public relations consultancy, as head of the Mining Team. He is presently a consultant to Lothbury Financial Services, the public relations consultancy.
He is a Committee Member of the Association of UK Mining Analysts, a Member of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and is a Chartered Engineer.
Michael serves on the Company's Audit Committee and is chairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee.
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