Board Of Directors
Mr. Markus Janser, MCom
Lead Director
Mr. Markus Janser graduated with a MCom from University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1994. He worked for Swiss Banking Group UBS in London, Zurich and Johannesburg in Private Banking and Asset Management and was part of the Project and Implementation Team for UBS merger with SBC forming the largest Private Banking and Asset Management Company worldwide. In 2000 Markus formed his own Asset Management Company based in Switzerland and Johannesburg. He retired from the Company in 2007 and since has been consulting to a Private Investor group focused on junior mining and exploration and to an international retail group within South Africa.
Mr. Graham Chisholm, A.C.I.S.
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Chisholm is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (Canada, South Africa and Zimbabwe) and has over 26 years experience in executive management, fifteen of which were in financial management including a four year expatriate contract as Group Financial Executive of the Mobil Oil agency in Swaziland. Mr. Chisholm founded Industrial Copper Systems Ltd, one of the largest importers of copper tube into Canada as of January 2005.Industrial Copper subsequently installed and produced copper and cobalt at a pilot plant in DRC in 2005. Mr Chisholm went on to found ICS Copper Systems Ltd, a publicly traded company on the TSX Venture exchange. (ICX: TSX.V) Mr Chisholm was born in Zimbabwe, is fluent in French and Shona (African dialect), and has significant experience in African culture.
Larry Treadgold, B.Sc (Hons), C.Eng, FIMMM,
Director & Chairman of Technical committee
Mr. Treadgold has over 40 years’ experience as an extractive metallurgist and manager in gold, silver, copper & cobalt assets world wide. During his career he has developed both green-field and brown-field sites and brought them to optimum capacity and profitability.
His early career was spent in Africa on the Zambian Copper-belt where he became Superintendent of Ndola Copper Refineries and precious metals plant. He later joined Noranda Minerals Inc., where, as President of their precious metal subsidiary, he was responsible for the management of operations, engineering and technical developments of precious metal activities in the United States and Asia.
In 2005, Mr. Treadgold assumed the responsibility of Director of Metallurgy with BSG Resources responsible for the Luanshya and Chambeshi operations in Zambia and the development of KOV, at the time the largest copper and cobalt asset in the DRC. Mr. Treadgold was a key member of the Executive team that successfully took this DRC asset to the market in 2007 with the flotation of Nikanor on the AIM exchange which raised £400m. Mr. Treadgold was appointed Director and Chief Metallurgical Officer being responsible for process design, project development and on site investor and bank relations until the merger with Katanga Mining. In addition, he has spearheaded environmental impact studies and management plans and developed compliance to Equator Principle standards to comply with the necessities of debt financing.
Mr. Treadgold has also provided metallurgical consulting services to gold and copper mining operations in the United States, Philippines, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Africa and Central America.
Mr. David A. Fynn, CA
Chief Financial Officer, Director
Mr. David Fynn, Chief Financial Officer and Director, is a Chartered Accountant and since 1996 has been the principal of D.A. Fynn & Associates Inc., an accounting firm. Prior to 1996, Mr. Fynn worked as a senior manager with KPMG in Canada and Ernst & Young in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. He has been involved with ICS since 2006 and is responsible for overseeing the financial and reporting functions of the Company, and undertakes liaison with bankers, auditors and regulatory authorities.