Berkeley Mineral Resources: Masoud Alikhani ,Chairman & Executive Director

Received a BSc in Agriculture from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1966. Before 1979 he was the major shareholder and Director of Alupan Ltd (renamed Alborz Aluminium), an Iranian aluminium irrigation pipe fabrication company that he co-founded. He then became a self-employed businessman before working in a variety of senior investment roles in Prudential Bache and Shearson Lehman Brothers.
In 1992 he was appointed a member of the board of the International Foundation for Privatisation of Russia, between 1995 and 1997 he served as Chairman of Central Asian Studies at the London School of Economics and in 1997 he was appointed a member of the Dean’s Council, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Mr Alikhani has had a broad experience at board level in public quoted companies. Between 1993 and 1998, he was CEO at Middlesex Holdings plc (now Global National Energy plc), an international company quoted on the London Stock Exchange which then operated predominantly in Russia and other CIS countries in steel, non-ferrous metals, financial services, energy and agribusinesses.
Between 2003 and 2007 he was Chairman of Cape Diamonds Plc, an AIM listed company. In addition to BMR,  he is also a Director of two PLUS-quoted companies, Dominion Energy Plc, an oil and gas company and ESV Group Plc, an agri-business specialising in biofuel farming, logistics and cereals trans-shipment.

Standard Bank Plc: Leon Westgate,Commodity Strategy|Global Markets

Leon joined Standard Bank as a Commodities Strategist in 2007. While Leon’s main focus is base metals, together with the rest of the team he also covers precious metals and energy. As part of his duties he performs a front-office strategy role for the sales and trading desk. Prior to joining Standard Bank he worked for Bloomsbury Minerals Economics for 4 years as an analyst, primarily looking into the copper market. Leon has an honours degree in Geology from the University of Manchester and a Masters Degree in Mineral Project Appraisal from Imperial College, London.

Deloitte: Jenny Harrison, Director, Energy & Resources Department

Jenny leads Deloitte's carbon reporting and assurance services, providing reporting advisory and benchmarking services to clients. Jenny has been instrumental in the development of Deloitte's sustainability maturity model and its application to different industry sectors. She is currently on the accounting and disclosure technical working groups of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and the International Emissions Trading Association, and is leading Deloitte's response to DEFRA's carbon reporting consultation.

Metminco Limited: Timothy (Tim) Read, Non Executive Director

Tim has over forty years experience of the mining and metals sector, first as a mining analyst, then as an investment banker and, most recently, as a corporate executive and director. Between 1995 and 1999, he was Managing Director and Global Co Head of Mining and Metals Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch Inc and, accordingly has extensive experience of all aspects of corporate finance, particularly M&A and equity capital markets. Between 1999 and 2006, he was the chief executive of Adastra Minerals Inc (acquired by First Quantum Minerals in 2006) and since then has acted as a non-executive director for several natural resource companies including Cumerio SA (acquired by Norddeutsche Affinerie in 2008), Kopane Diamond Developments (until December 2009), Starfield Resources Inc and Faroe Petroleum plc. †Mr Read has a BA (Economics) from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Rathdowney Resources: John P. Barry, President, CEO & Director

Mr. Barry is an economic geologist who holds a Master's Degree in Geology from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Edinburgh School of Business, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has worked in the exploration and mining industry since 1988 and has consulted to the industry as an associate of the CSA Group in Ireland and Australia and Chlumsky Armbrust & Meyer in Denver on a range of major gold and base metal deposits in Europe, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. He has extensive experience as a Qualified Person in mineral exploration, project management and the technical and financial appraisal of mineral exploration and mining projects. He is also a Director of Sovereign Mines of Africa plc, a junior gold exploration company listed on the PLUS market in London and a director of Orogen Gold Limited which is a private, Irish registered gold exploration company focused on Serbia.