Board of Directors
Francis Harper (Non-Executive Chairman)
LLB (Hons), BEc (Accounting)
Francis Harper is a director and part owner of Blackwood Capital Limited which manages more than $200 million in private equity funds primarily for high net worth clients in Australia and the USA.
Prior to forming Blackwood Capital, he spent 15 years with NM Rothschild in senior positions within resources corporate finance in the UK, the USA and Australia. He worked on numerous mining and energy project finance transactions for large US and European clients in a wide variety of countries including most South American countries and in Asia and Eastern Europe. His key achievements included assisting in establishing the Emerging Markets Gold Fund, owned by Rothschild and the International Finance Corporation.
Stephen Ross
BSc (Geol), GDipAppFin (FINSIA), MAusIMM, FFin
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Mr. Ross has worked for more than 17 years in the minerals industry in geological consulting, business development and corporate positions. Before joining Manas he was the Managing Director of Azumah Resources Limited, a gold exploration company based in Ghana.
Mr. Ross has previously held a business development and technical management position based in Kazakhstan, where he assessed projects for acquisition throughout the former Soviet Union and Russia. He has also held a senior geological management position whilst based in West Africa, and has been involved with a corporate firm where he was a resource analyst.
He is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. Mr Ross is a former non-executive director of ASX listed Central Asia Resources Limited.
Mr. Ross was appointed Managing Director on 3 March 2008.
Mark Calderwood (Non-Executive Director)
AusIMM
Mark Calderwood is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has 20 years’ experience in exploring for and mining gold. He is experienced in resource/reserve estimation and feasibility studies. He is Managing Director of Perseus Mining Ltd and has been intimately involved over the past four years with the Kyrgyz mineral properties.
Colin Carson (Non-Executive Director)
CPA FCIS MAICD
Colin Carson has been involved as a director of many Australian public companies since the 1980s and is an executive director of Perseus and Caspian Oil & Gas Limited. He is experienced with taxation and mining laws in the Kyrgyz Republic.