Board of Directors
Dr Colin Knight - Non Executive Chairman
Colin was appointed as a non-executive director and chairman of the Company on 14 June 2005. He is a mining engineer and economic geologist and, since 1983, has consulted on mining finance and policy on projects worldwide for London stockbrokers and banks and for the World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat in developing countries in Africa. After military service in the Royal Engineers, Colin spent some 18 years in the Canadian mining industry, including exploration, operations, mining finance and ultimately consulting. He returned to the UK in 1974, working for the Rio Tinto group in London in European and overseas exploration, budget control, project appraisal and negotiations with joint venture partners and governments. Colin qualified in mining engineering at the Camborne School of Mines, and holds a degree in economic geology and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Professional in European Professional associations include FIMM (now FIMMM), CEng., PEng (Canada).
Graeme Hossie - Chief Executive
Graeme co-founded London Mining in 2005 and has been instrumental in building the Group from inception. In his roles developing the Company as Finance Director, Corporate Development Officer and Deputy Managing Director and, since February 2009, as Chief Executive, he has driven fund raisings and share placings of over USD295 million, asset and company acquisitions and joint venture partnerships, the establishment of off-take and strategic relationships, the Company's listings on Oslo Axess and the London AIM, growth of and subsequent disposal of the Group's Brazilian operations and the overall development of the Group's expanding iron and coal projects and international management team. Prior to founding the Company, Graeme ran a venture development consultancy assisting resource and high growth venture companies and has founded and developed new ventures as principal adviser and executive in several industries including natural resources, media and consumer products. Graeme was previously a management consultant with Bain and Company in London, and in venture capital and innovation consulting with Piper Trust. Graeme holds a business degree from Ivey at the University of Western Ontario.
Rachel Rhodes - Finance Director
Rachel was appointed to the Board on 4 September 2008 as finance director. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having qualified with Coopers & Lybrand in London in 1996. She has over 10 years' experience in the mining sector, of which the last five years prior to joining London Mining were in key financial roles with Anglo American plc. During this time at Anglo American, Rachel successfully led major corporate transactions, including the financial workstreams on the demerger of Mondi plc, Anglo's paper and packaging business, which was dual¬listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges and the Group's conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards in 2006. Rachel most recently served as Lead Corporate Finance Manager within Anglo American's corporate finance department. Rachel holds a master of arts degree in economics from Cambridge University.
Sir Nicholas Bonsor - Non Executive Director
Sir Nicholas was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2007 as a non-executive director. A practising barrister specialising in regulatory and commercial law, Sir Nicholas was a member of British Parliament from 1979 to 1997 where he specialised in foreign affairs and defence, and was chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 1992 to 1995 and Minister of State at the Foreign Office from 1995 to 1997. Sir Nicholas has served on the board of several companies, including Blue Note Mining Inc. (Canada) from 2006 to 2008, and has served as the chairman of Egerton International Ltd from 2004 to present. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, a freeman of the City of London (1988), a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Sir Nicholas practised as a barrister from 1967 to 1975 and from 2003 to the present day. Sir Nicholas holds a master of arts degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University.
Malcolm Groat - Non Executive Director
Malcolm was appointed to the Board on 4 September 2008 as a non-executive director having previously held the position of part-time finance director from June 2007. Malcolm is a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a fellow of the Institute of Directors, and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. In the mining sector, he serves as director at Nusantara Energy PLC and has served in the past on the boards of Platinum Mining Corporation of India PLC (admitted to AIM, 2005) and Tengri Coal PLC of Mongolia. Prior to working in the mining sector, Malcolm spent a decade in finance roles in large global engineering groups. Before that he qualified with PriceWaterhouse in London and worked internationally in corporate finance. Malcolm holds a Master of Arts degree in Modern History and International Politics from St. Andrews University and an MBA from Warwick University.
Dr Hans Kristian Schønwandt - Non Executive Director
Hans was appointed as a non-executive director on 4 January 2006. He was the deputy minister, head of the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum for the Greenland Government from 1998 until he retired in October 2005. Between 1987 and 1998 he was head of the department of economic geology at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Hans has a PhD in economic geology from the University of Copenhagen.
Graham Mascall - Non Executive Director
Graham was appointed as a non-executive director on 1 May 2010. Graham is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Ncondezi Coal Company, an emerging private junior coal company focused on the Moatize coal basin in the Tete region of Mozambique, as well as having served until recently as a non-executive director of Caledon Resources, a coking coal miner in the Bowen Basin, Queensland. Graham holds degree from Cambourne School of Mines and McGill University.