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| Karl Smithson - Chief Executive Officer (aged 44)
| | | Karl Smithson (44) was appointed as Stellar's Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 January 2007, having built the portfolio of Stellar's assets within Mano River Resources since 2000. He led the listing of Stellar on AIM through a reverse takeover of West African Diamonds and has over the years successfully raised over £12million in equity funding for Stellar.
Karl has 22 years of resource sector experience gained with a number of companies in senior management positions, including De Beers (10 years), SouthernEra Diamonds (two years) and African Aura/Stellar (10 years). Karl's working career has been focused on diamond exploration in Africa and he has been responsible for a number of new diamond discoveries in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Karl is a geology graduate of Kingston University in the UK. He completed his MBA in 2006 at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town, South Africa and was awarded with the Old Mutual Gold Medal. |
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| Rowan D. Carr - Chief Operating Officer
| | | Rowan Carr has 21 years of diamond exploration with De Beers, managing projects in Botswana, South Africa, Angola, Guinea, CAR and the DRC. For 4 years he managed the world's largest prospecting sample treatment / indicator mineral examination facility in South Africa, which included the implementation of a global Laboratory Information Management System. He has a proven track record of initiating and managing exploration programmes in remote African settings and was responsible in 1997 for the discovery & drilling of Angola's first kimberlites found by De Beers since Independence. In a senior management position, prior to joining Stellar, Rowan managed De Beers' discovery and preliminary kimberlite evaluation drilling programme in the DRC.
Rowan joined Stellar as VP Exploration in May 2007, and is responsible for exploration & evaluation activities, adding value to projects in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the DRC. He did his Masters at the Royal School of Mines, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society (London) and a Chartered Geologist. |
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| A. Kassim Mansaray - Senior Geologist for Sierra Leone
| | | Kassim completed an MSc. at the Moscow Geological Research Institute in 1980 and joined the Sierra Leone Geological Survey. In 1990, he completed a second MSc. in Mining Geo-statistics at the University of Leeds. In 1988, he was Project Geologist for an EEC funded project to investigate gold lode mineralisation in the Nimini hills. In 1995-96 he was responsible, on behalf of the Sierra Leone Government, for supervision of De Beer's offshore diamond exploration programme. Kassim has been with Mano and Stellar since 1996 and is currently responsible for both the Kono and Tongo projects in Sierra Leone. |
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| Graham C. Radburnd - Project Manager, Mandala, Guinea.
| | | Graham, 56, brings over 32 years of bulk earthmoving, road construction, civil engineering, and diamond mining experience to Stellar. Graham spent from 1976 through to 1995 working on civils projects in South Africa, Botswana and Oman, specializing in bulk earthmoving and roads construction. From 1996 through to 2006, Graham covered all aspects of commissioning, operating and managing both alluvial and kimberlitic diamond Mines, having spent 6 years in Angola, and 4 years in the DR Congo with ITM Mining, SouthernEra Resources and Oryx Natural Resources. Graham joins Stellar from completing a 2 year contract, as the Operations Manager with the Tsar Emerald Corporation, refurbishing (US$45M) and bringing back into production, the Malysheva emerald deposit in Siberia, Russia. |
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