Directors

Justin Loasby has long experience of international corporate finance. A graduate of Oxford University and the London Business School (M.A. and M.Sc. Econ.), he was at Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd and at 3i plc from 1969 to 1978. Over the 20 years up to 2007 he held senior management positions at the European Investment Bank: from 1994 to 2005 he was in charge of investment in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, including major projects in infrastructure, mining and natural resources. He has represented the Bank as shareholder/director in a number of companies, including notably African Lion Mining Fund. Currently, among other assignments, he is a member of the Investment Committee of the AIC Caribbean Investment Fund. He was appointed to the Board in August 2011.

Michael Carvill is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland (FIEI). He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Queen’s University, Belfast) and an MBA (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). He worked as a contracts engineer in Algeria and as a project engineer at Tara Mines, Ireland. He has been the Managing Director of Kenmare since 1986.

Jacob Deysel was appointed Chief Operations Officer in February 2009 and was co-opted to the Board in June 2009. He joined Kenmare from Richards Bay Minerals, the world’s largest single producer of titanium dioxide feedstocks. He holds a BSc in Mine Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration, both from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He has worked in the titanium dioxide feedstock industry since 2003. Previously he worked with Gold Fields Limited at Driefontein Mine where he was Operations Manager for the West Complex consisting of seven operating shafts. At Richards Bay Minerals, he has had responsibility for the mine’s five plants in addition to geology, mine planning and maintenance.

Terence Fitzpatrick is a graduate of University of Ulster (Mech. Eng.). He worked as Project Manager and then Technical Director of Kenmare from 1990 to 1999. He was responsible for the development of the Ancuabe Graphite Mine, which achieved completion on schedule and budget in 1994. He was appointed to the Board of Kenmare in 1994. He served as a Non-Executive Director from 2000 to 2008. He was appointed as Technical Director in February 2009.

Tony McCluskey has worked with Kenmare since 1991. He was originally appointed as Company Secretary and Financial Controller, before becoming Finance Director in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Before joining Kenmare, he worked for a number of years with Deloitte & Touche as a senior manager in Dublin and also worked overseas.

Elizabeth Headon has over 15 years' experience in corporate communications, advising and representing numerous publicly quoted companies, government departments and agencies, specialising in issue and crisis management. She was a Director of Ireland's leading communications consultancy firm. She now focuses on community relations and development and she is Chief Executive and a Director of the Digicel Foundation Haiti, based in Port au Prince. This is the largest corporate foundation in Haiti and its focus is on education including the construction of 130 new schools. Elizabeth previously assisted on the Moma site in 2007 developing KMAD, the community development association. She has an MBA from the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin, and a BA and MA from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Tony Lowrie has over 35 year's association with the equities business. He was a partner with Hoare Govett, London from 1976 until 1986 when it was sold to Security Pacific. He then became a member of the main Board of Security Pacific Hoare Govett for a period from 1986 to 1991. He led a management buyout of Asian Equities in 1991 and became Chairman of HG Asia Securities in 1991. He held this position until HG Asia Securities was sold to ABN AMRO Bank in 1996 at which point he assumed the role of Chairman for ABN AMRO Asia Securities until 2004. He was formerly also a Managing Director of ABN AMRO Bank. He has been a Non-Executive Director in several quoted Asian closed end funds. He is a Director of the Edinburgh Dragon Fund. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Dragon Oil plc, and had, for 18 years, been a Non-Executive Director of J. D. Wetherspoon plc.

Steven McTiernan, a British national, has over forty years of diverse natural resources industry and banking experience with Amoco, BP, and Mesa Petroleum, and with Chase Manhattan Bank, CIBC and NatWest Markets. While at Chase, he structured a broad range of corporate and project financings and managed a number of ground-breaking acquisition and divestiture advisory transactions. He has been a Non-Executive Independent Director at First Quantum Minerals Ltd. since August 14, 2010, and an Independent Director at Songa Offshore SE since January 10, 2013. Mr. McTiernan served as a Non-Executive Director at Tullow Oil plc from 2002 until December 31, 2012 and as its Senior Independent Director from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012. Mr. McTiernan received an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and is also currently principal of Sandown Energy Consultants Limited.