KORE POTASH - Key Persons
Brad Sampson, CEO of Kore Potash, explains the company's vision, strategy and projects in more depth in the following video
Brad Sampson has more than 25 years resources industry experience building and operating large scale mining projects internationally including in West and Southern Africa. A qualified Mining Engineer, he has held leadership and board roles in several public listed companies.
Brad has led the successful turnaround of mining businesses in Cote d'Ivoire and the DRC and has previously been the CEO of Discovery Metals and held General Manager roles at Gold Fields operations in South Africa and Australia.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Non - Executive Chairman
- Ex - CEO of the Mondi Group
David Hathorn is the ex-CEO of the Mondi Group (30 April 2017). The Mondi Group, is a FTSE 100 global packaging and paper listed group on both the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges, with operations in 30 countries and employing 25,000 people. The Mondi Group performed exceptionally well under David's leadership.
Before Mondi, David was at Anglo American, where he was a member of the Group Executive Committee from 2003 and an Executive Director of Anglo American PLC from 2005, serving on several of the Boards of the Group's major mining operations.
Job Titles:
- Mining Engineer
- Chairman of AIM & TSXV
- Non - Executive
David Netherway is a mining engineer with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. He was involved in the construction and development of the New Liberty, Iduapriem, Siguiri, Samira Hill and Kiniero gold mines in West Africa and has mining experience in Africa, Australia, China, Canada, India and the Former Soviet Union. Mr Netherway served as the CEO of Shield Mining until its takeover by Gryphon Minerals.
Prior to that, he was the CEO of Toronto listed Afcan Mining Corporation, a China focused gold mining company that was sold to Eldorado Gold in 2005. He was also the Chairman of Afferro Mining which was acquired by IMIC in 2013. Mr Netherway has held senior management positions in a number of mining companies including Golden Shamrock Mines, Ashanti Goldfields and Semafo Inc.
Mr Netherway is currently the Chairman of AIM & TSXV-listed Altus Strategies plc and the non-executive director of ASX-listed Canyon Resources Ltd. He also holds various private company directorships.
Gavin Chamberlain graduated from the University of the Natal (Durban) in 1987 (BSc. (Eng) Civil). Having had an Eskom bursary, he did his formative years in engineering in both the structural and the waste and ash dump departments at Eskom, Megawatt Park. Whilst there he completed a GDE from Wits University in Geotechnical Investigation and Tailings and Waste design and registered as a Professional Civil Engineer with ECSA.
Having gathered an understanding of design he then moved on to join Fraser Alexander Construction to further his practical understanding and application of engineering. In his role with Fraser Alexander he was engaged with construction of two tailings dams, three water diversion systems, two toxic waste dumps and a domestic waste dump along with various smaller projects. His first exposure to company management was also gained there where he served on the management team executive committee.
His next step was a natural progression in the mining project field when he joined TWP as a civil projects engineer looking after the civil aspects of a EPCM mining project for Anglo Platinum. He spent 16 years with TWP and held various roles from engineering manager, head of the civil department, project manager and head of project delivery accountable for project management, controls and construction. He was also on both the Exco and served as a director of TWP after the listing. On the purchase of TWP by Basil Read, he moved into the BR EPC business firstly as the commercial director and then as acting managing director. In a consolidation move the BR EPC business was closed and he moved into the existing TWP EPC business (Matoma) as the Director responsible for clean energy where he worked in both the solar and wind space until leaving to join Amec. At Amec he was employed as Director of Projects for Africa and spent a large part of his time there as the dedicated Project Director on the $1.8 billion uranium project in Nambia. He completed his time at Amec Foster Wheeler as the Global Project Delivery lead and the Operations Director for Mining in AMEE (Africa, Middle East and Europe). His current role at Kore Potash is a culmination of experiences gained across the full gambit of mining operations and is one that he sees as challenging and rewarding as many aspects of experience gained over the years are now being used.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Non - Executive
- Principal and Director of Meridian International Capital Limited
Jonathan is a globally experienced Director (Executive and Non-Executive) with over 30 years of commercial, corporate, transactional, governance and legal experience. He is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of Global Value Fund Ltd (ASX listed), Plato Income Maximiser Limited (ASX listed), Spheria Emerging Companies Limited (ASX listed) and Future Generation Investment Company Ltd and Antipodes Global Investment Company Ltd and holds various private company Directorships in non-profitable organisations.
Jonathan is also a Principal and Director of Meridian International Capital Limited, which is a Sydney (Australia) based structured finance group where he has been in engaged for the past 22 years. During this time, Jonathan has been involved in financing numerous resource transactions in various global locations.
Prior to this, Jonathan was a Partner with Herbert Smith Freehills law firm. He holds postgraduate degrees in economics and law, he is an admitted attorney in both England and Australia and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mr Pablo Hernandez Mac-Donald, aged 34, joined SQM in 2013 is the Vice President Finance Commercial Offices within SQM reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of SQM. Pablo completed Industrial Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering degrees having graduated from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in 2013, and a Master's in Business Administration from Emory University in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Non - Executive
Sameer Oundhakar, aged 47, joined OIA in 2018 and currently holds the position of Senior Manager - Diversified Private Equity Investments. He has extensive private equity experience across diverse industry sectors / geographies and represents OIA on investee company boards in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. He has lived and worked in the Middle East (OIA, Seera), UK (Boston Consulting Group, Columbia Threadneedle, American Express), France and India (HSBC, Larsen & Toubro). Sameer has a Bachelor's degree with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI Mumbai, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Lucknow and an MBA from INSEAD.