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| | | Simon Village
Position: Chairman and Director
Simon Village was formerly a Managing Director, World Gold Council, and principal of Exchange Traded Gold, a company responsible for developing and managing a series of direct physical gold investment products that have revolutionised the dynamics of the gold industry. Previous to this he was a Managing Director with HSBC responsible for Global Mining based out of London, and also Head of HSBC's South African Securities business. Simon holds a B.Eng (Hons) degree from Camborne School of Mines, and brings some 16 years of gold industry and investment experience to the Company.
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| | | Michael Prinsloo
Position: President & CEO
Michael Prinsloo was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Banro in September 2007 and President in March 2008. He has 35 years experience in the gold mining industry, having risen through the ranks over 25 years with the Anglo American Gold Division. He later worked for Randgold & Exploration and served as CEO of Durban Roodepoort Deep, Limited. Mike was Executive Vice President and Head of South African Operations of Gold Fields from 2002 to 2006, and was appointed and served as CEO of the Gold Fields Business and Leadership Academy in 2006 to 2007.
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| | | Arnold T. Kondrat
Position: Executive Vice-President & Director
Banro's principal founder, Arnold is the Executive Vice-President of the Corporation and has been involved in corporate finance activities for over 20 years. He is also President and Managing Director of Sterling Portfolio Securities Inc., a private venture capital firm based in Toronto.
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| | | Johan Botha
Position: Executive Vice President, Operations
Johan Botha is a highly experienced mine developer and operator, having spent the first 26 years of his career with AngloGold before joing BHP where he served as the Operations Manager of the Hartley Platinum project in Zimbabwe. He then spent three years at the Morila project in Mali, as the General Manager, through the construction and commissioning period. Johan was later responsible for the implementation and conversion to owner mining, as well as the construction of the CIL plant, at Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine in Ghana. Prior to joining Banro, Johan was the Vice President and Managing Director of Gold Fields' Ghana operations.
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| | | Donat K. Madilo
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Donald joined Banro in 1996. He has over 17 years experience in finance and administration and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Institut Supérieur de Commerce de Kinshasa, a B.Sc. (Licence) in Applied Economics from University of Kinshasa and a Masters of Science in Accounting (Honors) from Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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| | | Dan Bansah
Position: Vice President, Exploration
Dan is Banro's Vice President, Exploration and has over 20 years experience in mineral resource and ore reserve estimation. He has M.Sc in Mineral Exploration with Distinction from the University of Leicester and is a Member and a Chartered Professional of Aus.I.M.M. Prior to joining Banro in 2004, Dan was Group Mineral Resource Manager with Ashanti Goldfields, with responsibilities for the coordination, auditing and compilation of Ashanti's Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves in Africa.
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| | | Martin Jones
Position: Vice President, Corporate Development
Martin has over 25 years experience in corporate and investor communications. Prior to joining Banro, he was a partner with Advance Planning/MS&L, where he consulted to a number of Canada's leading corporations. He also worked for a number of years in the public affairs department of Imperial Oil.
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| | | Desire Sangara
Position: Vice-President, Government Relations
Desire is Banro's Vice-President, Government Relations and is based in Kinshasa. He has a Masters degree in management from E.D.C. (Paris) and has over 17 years professional experience in D.R.Congo's exploration and mining sector. He previously held senior positions with the Belgium-Luxemburg mining company, Mindev, and with Ashanti Goldfields, where for seven years he was the company's country manager.
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| | | Koos Nel
Position: Vice President -- Non Technical Services
Koos has twenty five years experience in the mining industry in the gold, platinum, coal and base metals sectors. He has Diplomas in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, and has attended Executive Development Programs (EPD) at the Wits Business School in South Africa and the IMD at Lausanne. Over the past decade he has had responsibility for the Human Resources function, the Global security function, and the Business and Leadership Academy within Gold Fields. Koos heads up the Human Resources and Security functions for Banro and has specific responsibility for the Twangiza Mine Resettlement Project.
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| | | Howard Fall
Position: Exploration Manager
Howard has spent 28 years as a geologist in Africa, mainly in gold exploration. He has a Ph.D. from Sheffield University in the UK, and has managed exploration programs in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and the DRC for Gencor, Billiton, Ashanti Goldfields and Anglogold Ashanti respectively. Howard played a principal role in the discovery and exploration of the Yamfo gold trend in Ghana.
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| | | Thinus Vorster
Position: Senior Engineer
Thinus brings well-rounded engineering and African mining project experience to the development of the Twangiza mine. His career stretches back 29 years, including 27 years with Gold Fields. During this period, he spent 22 years at the flagship Driefontein Gold Mine; the last three years of this stint were spent as head of engineering services, serving on the Mine's Executive Committee. He was transferred to Gold Fields' International Operations in December 2004 and appointed head of engineering services at the Tarkwa Gold Mine in Ghana, where his management focus was on capital projects and operational optimization. He completed his career at Gold Fields as Manager, Projects in Ghana.
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