Management Team

An ever-evolving mineral resource professional, Tim has, over the past 17 years, participated in a global pipeline of development and production projects across 14 countries on 3 continents and in capacities spanning field roles to executive management. This journey has been with publicly-listed, privately-held and vertically-integrated companies as well as local and national governments.

Owing to his strong working knowledge of various ore types in the Precambrian terrains of West Africa and shear-hosted mineralized systems in Birimian-aged rocks, Tim’s range of technical lead encompasses discovery of mineralization on greenfields through to commercial and sustainable production.

In 2015, Tim shifted his attention to Nigeria where he has designed and led technical programmes that de-risked assets and provided advice to a myriad of HNI’s and investment boutiques. His focus has been on precious metals, battery metals and energy metals.  He is the creator of the National Resource Compliant Exploration and Monetization Programme, an initiative that is actively helping to make Nigeria a leading mining jurisdiction for investment.

Together with a top 10 international bank and a consortium of Africa’s foremost mining consulting firms, Tim designed an appraisal and monetization model that will see mining boost Africa’s GDP by at least 10% per annum by 2024

Tim possesses a high degree of skill in property development from pre-feasibility stage into design, construction, and operations. This includes rehabilitating historic mining properties or advancing late stage exploration projects into producers.

Chichi began her career in Chapel Hill Advisory Partners in 2005 working on various transactions in the financial institution’s group before moving on to Afrinvest West Africa in 2007 working on landmark transactions across various sectors including the issuance of GTBank’s US$750m Global Depository Receipts and the Lagos State N 275Billion Medium Term Notes. She joined Argentil Capital Partners in 2009 where she spent 4 years working on transactions in oil and gas, power and infrastructure sector including privatization of Kainji PLC by Mainstream Energy owner of hydropower generation assets, Reverse Takeover of Exile Resources and Listing of Oando Energy Resources on the Toronto Stock Exchange and acquisition of Conoco Philips by Oando.

Chichi has a BSc. (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Manchester and an MSc. Finance from Cass Business School, London and sits on the board of various companies in the Mining, Real Estate, Energy, Logistics and Security sectors.

With over 30 years, working brownfields as well as greenfield exploration (gold, base metals and diamonds) and due diligence in Africa. He has assessed numerous properties in 14 African countries and Peru including most recently the DRC and Zambia. From 2007 he has consulted and managed in the Central African Copperbelt and was a senior team member in the exploration project management of the Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum licenses which led to the world-class Kamoa Copper Discovery. In addition to mine geology and geological survey experience, Steffen has 11 years as an independent consultant covering a wide variety of geological environments. Steffen has authored 15 publications.

Steffan is JORC / NI 43-101 certified for precious metals, polymetallics, precious stones and pegmatites.

Over 40 years experience in exploration and mining in Africa, Asia, Australia and South America in seventeen different countries Specialist in alluvial exploration and mining for gold, diamonds and tin.  David has extensive exploration experience as consultant and manager on varieties of minerals such as gold, diamond, base metal, tin, iron ore, pegmatite minerals, mineral sands and gemstone for mining majors and juniors such as De Beers, Sel Trust, Aredor, Esso Minerals, Freeport McMoran, Battle Mountain, Gold Fields, Ashanti Gold Fields, Rio Tinto  David speaks French, Indonesian and Thai.

Eric has over 20years experience in onshore mineral exploration and development, oil & gas and construction engineering. Eric has typically held positions from project manager to operations manager to vice president exploration for the corporations he has collaborated with. Mr. Allard was Operations Manager for MagMinerals from 2006 to 2010 in the Republic of Congo and managed all field and drilling operations leading to successful completion of a Bankable Feasibility Study and NI 43-101 Reserve Report. He has worked internationally as an expatriate in Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, China and France. Since 2010, Mr. Allard has continued providing technical and managerial consulting services in a variety of mining and oil & gas exploration projects throughout Africa and Canada, notably for potash, lithium coltan and fossil energy. He is a member in good standing of the Order of Engineers of Québec. Mr. Allard was in the management team of Manono lithium project in DRC, the largest hard rock Lithium resource in the planet.

Johan has almost four decades of practical experience in resource geology with the bulk of this in coal. Johan’s expertise with coal constitutes, exploration planning and management, geological modelling using mines software, resource reporting and evaluation. He has worked on most of the South African coal projects.

He is a competent person as specified by SAMREC, JORC and NI 43-101, registered professional geologist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions, a member of the Fossil Foundation and a member of Geological Society of South Africa .

Other areas of expertise include base metal and alluvial diamonds exploration.

Proven as a consultant and on-staff leader on global Greenfield and Brownfield projects. Extensive background extracting gold, platinum, uranium, coal, iron ore, diamonds, nickel and copper. Strong ability to build and lead technical and operational teams that meet and exceed designated goals and expectations. Highly adept at developing and implementing integrated process and procedure strategies that enhance efficiencies. Demonstrated skills in managing projects from concept to completion ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-target delivery.

Internationally experienced mining industry professional offering 40 years’ experience including senior management positions, technical, operational and development roles. Bill has a track record of successfully managing mining operations, improving existing mining operations and the development of new operations such as mining up to 40 MTPA of waste plus ore from an open-pit mining operation, Operations Manager for Consolidated Tin Limited Mt Garnet copper-lead-zinc operation. Previously successfully and safely led the start-up and ongoing management of an 800,000 TPA zinc operation in China.  Bill’s metallurgical experience included the secondment to the Emperor Gold Mine in Fiji as Metallurgical Manager where the recovery was increased from 65% to 90%. Bill’s operation and management style encourage participation in a safety-conscious environment.

Having worked over 10 years in the steel and iron making industries, Olawale has deep experience in the steelmaking and manufacturing industries, ranging from direct reduced iron production, mining operations, electric arc furnace steelmaking, ladle metallurgy furnace operations, casting operations, plant construction, and plant commissioning. Between 2006 and 2016, Olawale worked for the largest steelmaker in the United States, Nucor Steel.  During his time at Nucor Steel, he worked on several projects such as a greenfield blast furnace construction project, where he was selected to lead the efforts of coal supplier selection and coal blend testing for a $3 billion greenfield project. Olawale is a principal consultant engaged by the Nigeria Ministry of Solid Minerals to advise on the restart of National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) and Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL).

Olawale holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from Indiana University, Kelly School of Business.