Zinnwald Lithium plc
ZNWD:LN
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AIM quoted Zinnwald Lithium Plc is focused on fast-tracking the late stage, integrated Zinnwald Lithium Project in Germany to production to supply a suite of high value battery-grade lithium products to Europe’s rapidly growing EV and energy storage markets.
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Jeremy Martin
Non-Executive Chairman
Jeremy is a founding director of Erris Resources. Mr. Martin holds a degree in mining geology from the Camborne School of Mines, and a MSc. in mineral exploration from the University of Leicester. He has worked in South America, Central America and Europe, where he was responsible for grassroots regional metalliferous exploration programmes through to resources definition and mine development. Jeremy has been involved in the formation of two AIM traded companies and has completed a number of high value mineral project transactions. He is currently Chief Executive of Horizonte Minerals and is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Institute of Mining Analysts. He holds BSc (Hons), MSc, ACSM, MSEG.
Cherif Rifaat
Chief Financial Officer
Cherif is a UK chartered accountant who has more than 20 years of venture capital, corporate finance, operational turnaround and investor relations experience since his qualification with KPMG. He has primarily worked with technology, mining and real estate companies, with an emphasis on those in a start-up, pre-IPO or restructuring phase. He has been a corporate and financial adviser to the lithium mining company, Bacanora Minerals, since it listed on AIM in 2014. Cherif is a graduate from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He holds MA (Hons) in modern history and has been a member of the ICAEW since 1998.
Graham Brown
Non-Executive Director
Graham holds a BSc. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has been a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (“SEG”) since 1999, participated in the Colombia Senior Executives Program in 2004 and the Duke Business Leaders Program in 2007. He is a past councilor of the SEG and current British Geological Survey industry advisor and Natural History Museum honorary research fellow. In 2011, he was the co-recipient of the PDAC Thayer Lindsley Award and from 2013 attained both Chartered Geologist and European Geologist professional status. Mr Brown joined Amax as an exploration geologist in 1980 and worked on a variety of exploration and mining operations in the Circum-Pacific region. For almost a decade Mr Brown worked as a consultant involved with the exploration and evaluation of a number of major discoveries in both Asia and Europe. In 1994, he joined Minorco as Chief Geologist. Subsequently he became the Europe-Asia Vice President Exploration and, following the Minorco-Anglo American plc merger in 1999, he served as Vice President Geology. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Vice President Exploration and managed geosciences, technical services, and R&D programs. In 2005, he was promoted to Head of Base Metals Exploration and in 2010 he took up the position of Group Head of Geosciences for the Anglo American Group.
Jeremy Taylor-Firth
Non-Executive Director
Jeremy has worked in investment management since 1996. He initially worked at Matheson Securities, which was acquired by Prudential-Bache Ltd and subsequently renamed Dryden Wealth Management. In June 2006 he joined Singer & Friedlander Investment Management as an Investment Director. This business was then acquired by Williams de Broe where he worked until October 2010. Jeremy is currently an Investment Manager with Hanson Asset Management, where he has worked for the last six years. He is also the non-executive chairman of Primorus Investments plc. Jeremy holds CISI Level 6 PCIAM.
Andrew Partington
Non-Executive Director
Andrew is a partner with Toronto based investment bank Paradigm Capital Inc. specialising in corporate advisory, M&A, and equity raising for mining and metals companies and was also a principal with Beacon Group Advisors between 2001 and 2003, which was the predecessor to Paradigm’s mining team. In addition, Andrew has served as a mining equity analyst with Deutsche Bank’s Global Mining and Metals team and Newcrest Capital covering the base metals and gold industries. Andrew holds a B.Sc. (Hons) Engineering Geology from the University of Portsmouth and an MBA from York University’s Schulich School of Business as well as MIMMM and FGS.
Anton du Plessis
Chief Executive Officer
Anton joined Erris Resources as CEO in October 2018. Mr du Plessis has over 20 years' experience in the finance sector. During this time, he has held senior positions at several international investment banks including CIBC (The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce), Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley with a focus on advising natural resources companies on the execution of strategic and financing transactions. He has worked on transactions across a range of commodities and for a number of leading global players including Anglogold Ashanti, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Prior to embarking on his investment banking career, Mr du Plessis worked for the Anglo American group in a corporate finance and business development capacity.
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Aiden Lavelle
Chief Operating Officer
Aiden is an experienced exploration manager who played a key role in the discovery of the Pandora prospect in Djibouti. His international work also includes target generation, project management and resource definition. He holds BSc (Hons), MSc, MIGI, P.Geo and is based in Ireland.
David Hall
Technical Advisor
David was a founding director of Erris Resources. Mr Hall is a graduate in geology from Trinity College Dublin and holds a Masters Degree in Mineral Exploration from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. He has 29 years of experience in the exploration sector and has worked on and assessed exploration projects and mines in over 50 countries. From 1992, Mr Hall was Chief Geologist for Minorco SA, responsible for Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. He moved to South America in 1997 as a consultant geologist for Minorco South America and subsequently became exploration manager for AngloGold South America in 1999, where he was responsible for exploration around the Cerro Vanguardia gold mine in Argentina, around the Morro Velho and Crixas mines in Brazil and establishing the exploration programme that resulted in the discovery of the La Rescantada gold deposit in Peru as well as certain joint ventures in Ecuador and Colombia. Mr Hall is also founder and former Chairman of Stratex International Plc, an AIM traded company with exploration assets in Turkey and in which Teck Resources Limited is an equity shareholder. Mr Hall is a fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and EuroGeol. He is currently CEO of Thani-Stratex and non-executive chairman of Horizonte Minerals. He holds BA (Hons), MSc, FSEG, MIGI, P. Geo.