Arno de Vos - Chief Financial Officer/Company Secretary B Com., B Com (Hons), B Compt. (Hons), CA, PMP Arno is a Chartered Accountant with over 17 years experience in accounting, audit, corporate finance, treasury and company secretarial, as well as 8 years as Chief Financial Officer of a property related industry company. Arno has also served as a Director on more than 34 private companies. Employed by Deloittes for a period of 5 years, Arno was involved in numerous listed entities. Arno is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA), affiliate of Chartered Public Accountants Australia (CPA), affiliate of Chartered Secretaries Australia (CSA), Registered Project Management Professional with the Project Management Institute and member of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and Registered with the Australian Office of Fair Trading as Principal Real Estate Agent and Property Developer.

 

Harald Muller - General Manager - Projects Harald is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with more than 25 years experience in the mining industry, where he has worked in technical and operations management, process engineering, process development, process design, technical and incident investigations and project management in base metals and precious metals refining. Based both in South Africa and Australia, Harald has had exposure to operations and technical development projects in several first and third world countries. Harald is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of IChemE, a registered Professional Engineer and Fellow of SAIChE, as well as a member of AusIMM. Previously he was president of SAIChE and represented South Africa on the EXCO of the World Chemical Engineering Council. He has a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and a Masters in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa.

 

Len Heurlin - CEO Metals Finance Corp Africa Len was appointed CEO of Metals Finance Africa (Pty) Ltd (MFA) at its formation in 2006. He is a founding shareholder and director of Muva Metals (Pty) Ltd, which holds an equal interest in Metals Finance Africa. Len has positioned MFA to achieve significant growth within a specific niche of the resources sector. His responsibilities include all operations, administrative functions and applying the strategic focus of the business, which he identified and initiated over 8 years ago while managing director of Muva Metals. He has led the negotiations and concluded joint ventures with major resource companies to lay the foundation for the successful implementation of the company's business plan. He has managed the Palabora Project through design, construction, commissioning and operation and will continue with the development of a selected number of prospective projects within Africa. Len has design and construction experience primarily in a project management role for the implementation of process plants and mine surface infrastructure. He has gained infrastructure development experience in South Africa, New Zealand and India in a business development role. He has also researched and evaluated novel hydrometallurgical processing technologies that have the potential to transform the design of future process plants. He is a co-founder of FutureMet, a technology company that has over the past 8 years developed and patented the world's first continuous counter current resin-in-pulp contactor. Len has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from the University of Cape Town and has completed a Masters of Business Administration from the same university in 2000.

 

Geoffrey Parker - Pr Eng - BSc.(Eng) BCom Director Metals Finance Africa Geoffrey Parker is a highly experienced civil engineer, with over 40 years in the construction industry throughout Southern Africa. Over the years, Geoff has been a Director of a number of companies, involved in the construction industry both in South Africa and other parts of Africa. He has also had experience in the resource and metal recovery industry in Southern Africa, holding the position of Managing Director for a junior mining company, listed on the JSE, in the early 1990's. In April 2004 Geoff became one of the founding directors & shareholders in the formation of Muva Metals (Pty) Ltd (Muva currently owns 50% of Metals Finance Africa), & Metals Finance Africa (Pty) Ltd.