Directors & Secretary

Board of Directors
John Barry –Non Executive Chairman
Edward Slowey – Chief Executive Officer
Alan Mooney – Finance Director
Adam Reynolds – Non Executive Director
Michael Nolan – Non-Executive Director

Secretary
Alan Mooney – Company Secretary

John Barry – Non Executive Chairman

John Barry has worked in the exploration and mining industry since 1988 and has consulted to the industry as a Qualified Person on a range of gold and base metal deposits in Europe, Africa, Australia and South-East Asia. He has degrees in Geology from The State University of New York and The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School at the Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. He has worked for over 20 years on a range of gold and base metal deposits in Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia and has discovered, sourced and supervised feasibility studies on multi-million ounce gold deposits in Ghana (Ahafo), Tanzania (Nyanzaga) and Mali (Yanfolila). He is currently Chief Executive of Vancouver-based Rathdowney Resources Limited who are involved in base metal exploration in Europe and he is Exploration Director of Sovereign Mines of Africa, exploring for gold in Guinea.

He has extensive experience in the specialist areas of mineral exploration, project management and the technical and financial appraisal of mineral exploration and mining projects. He is a professional member in good standing of the European Federation of Geologists and the Institute of Geologists of Ireland, and therefore qualifies as a competent person under the terms of the VALMIN Code and by reciprocity, Canadian National Instrument NI43-101.

Edward Slowey – Chief Executive Officer

Edward (Ed) Slowey has worked throughout his career as an economic geologist in the minerals sector. Apart from his work with Orogen Gold, he also acts as a technical consultant to Stratex International Plc on its Dalafin gold project in Senegal and is a non-executive director of a Greenland-based exploration company, NunaMinerals A/S. He was attached for several years to the CSA Consultancy Group working out of London and Dublin as Project Manager responsible for independent review, valuation and due diligence in mining and exploration, covering base metals, bulk commodities, precious metals and diamonds in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. Work included completion of Competent Person’s Reports and 43-101 independent reports for the AIM, ISDX and TSX markets. Other roles undertaken in a consultancy capacity include Exploration Manager, Russia for AIM-listed Eurasia Mining Plc, as well as minerals project management through feasibility studies, including at the giant Sukhoi Log gold deposit in Siberia (>12Moz). He has also worked in the Balkans on a range of base metal projects, primarily in Macedonia and Kosovo.

Previously, he managed the Irish exploration arm of Rio Tinto over a 12-year period, focussing on base and precious metals in carbonate, volcanic and metamorphic terrain. This work led to the discovery of the small, high-grade Cavanacaw gold deposit in Northern Ireland. Prior to that, he worked as an exploration geologist in Ireland for a Canadian junior company and as an underground mine geologist at the world-class Navan zinc-lead deposit. Ed holds a geology degree from University College, Dublin and is a professional member of the Institute of Geologists of Ireland and the European Federation of Geologists.

Alan Mooney – Finance Director and Company Secretary

Alan Mooney has worked in the natural resource sector since 2001. He has worked with Fastnet Oil and Gas Plc, Cove Energy Plc, Tiger Resource Finance plc, GoldQuest Mining Corp, Rathdowney Resources Limited and Aventine Resources Plc.

He was previously divisional CFO at Sonae SA, Portugal’s largest commercial group. Prior to that he worked with Continental AG the German tyre manufacturer, and was Finance Director of their operations in the UK and in Portugal. He also worked in Mergers and Acquisitions at Continental’s headquarters in Hanover, Germany and formally as Chief Accountant at their Irish tyre manufacturing plant. He trained with PWC in Dublin and is a Chartered Accountant and MBA. He speaks Portuguese, German and French.

Adam Reynolds – Non-Executive Director

Adam began his career as a stockbroker before moving into investor relations. In 2000, he established Hansard Group plc, a financial PR firm, admitting its shares to trading on AIM in November 2000, before jointly leading a management buy-out of the business in 2004. Adam is also a non-executive director of EKF Diagnostics plc and HubCo Investments plc and a director of Wilton International Marketing Limited and Autoclenz Holdings Limited.

Michael Nolan – Non-Executive Director

A director since 2010, Michael Nolan is a Chartered Accountant having worked in practice with Deloitte in Dublin. He is currently a non-executive Director of Cove Energy Limited, formerly an AIM quoted oil and gas exploration company focussed on East Africa which was sold to PTTEP of Thailand in August 2012.  He acts as a non-executive director of Vancouver based, Rathdowney Resources Limited, a private natural resource company operating in Europe and supported by the Hunter Dickinson group and listed on TSX-V. He is also a Director of AIM quoted companies, Tiger Resource Finance plc and Fastnet Oil and Gas plc. He acted as chief executive officer of AIM listed, mining company, Minmet Plc from 1999 to 2007. He also serves on the Board of several resource exploration and investment companies.

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Last updated on 19 February 2013.