African Consolidated Resources Plc

Roy Tucker is a Chartered Accountant whose background is as a tax consultant. He has co-founded and been involved in the management of various financial businesses particularly in the banking and commodity sectors. He is a co-founder of South Africa based Legend Lodges Group, which holds African tourism interests. Roy Tucker is based in the UK.

Andrew Cranswick, Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Cranswick is the Chief Executive Officer of African Consolidated Resources PLC. A fourth-generation Zimbabwean, he has lived almost all of his life in the country. He has a geological background with extensive commercial experience in the mining and metals industry of Southern Africa. In addition, in the 1990s he established a successful group of IT companies in Zimbabwe, including the nation's first Internet Service which he sold to an International concern before the dot com crash. More recently he was an important stakeholder in the West-Australian cattle ranching industry.

Michael Kellow, Technical Director

Michael Kellow is an exploration geologist with over 25 years' experience in diverse gold, base-metals and uranium exploration in Archaean and Proterozoic terranes both in Australia and Africa. He was team leader in discoveries of virgin mineral systems in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. He has worked in Australia with a range of junior and mid-cap exploration companies, and consulted in Australia and Africa with companies including Anglo American and Gold Fields. He was also a founder of e-geology firm Intierra.

Stuart Bottomley, Non-Executive Director

Stuart Bottomley worked as a stockbroker for nine years, before joining Dawnay Day where he worked for the Target Group of Unit Trusts, managing the Special Situations Fund and Target Energy. In 1984, he joined Fidelity International in London, working with the ERISA group, focussed on UK and European markets. Since leaving Fidelity, he has consulted for numerous private and public companies, advised a number of Australian companies on admissions to AIM and assisted in IPOs and other fundraisings. He is currently a non-executive director of Polar Star Mining Corp, Starfield Resources Inc and Verona Pharma Plc and was previously the senior non-executive director of Centamin Egypt Ltd.

Julian Emery, Non-Executive Director

Julian Emery is an experienced mining analyst and combines practical mining experience with City experience. Upon graduating from the Camborne School of Mines, he joined the graduate programme at Union Corporation Limited at their South African gold mine. Here he gained experience of all aspects of the mining industry before leaving to work for Tsumeb as an engineer and later for New Jersey Zinc as an engineer on new mining methods. He joined the financial sector in 1970, working in research and fund management for Selection Trust Limited, and as a mining analyst for TC Coombes and Societe General. He progressed to become head of research at VSA Capital, senior research analyst at Fox Davies Capital and Head of Mining Research at WH Ireland. Before retiring from full time work he was Senior Research Analyst in the Metals and Mining team at Ambrian Partners.

Lloyd Munyaradzi Manokore, Non-Executive Director

Lloyd Munyaradzi Manokore is a law graduate from the University of Zimbabwe and has 20 years of legal experience. Upon graduation he worked for Stumbles and Rowe in Harare before becoming company secretary for Cairns Holdings, where he spearheaded the legal portfolio for the largest food production company in Zimbabwe. He moved to Innscor Africa in 1996 as group legal advisor and oversaw the reverse listing of the group onto the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 1998. Innscor is now one of the top three companies of the Zimbabwe Stock exchange by market capitalisation. In 2000 he founded Ibis Africa, a corporate advisory business focusing on Pan African opportunities. He is still involved with the company and is also Chairman and Partner of the Corporate Counsel, a network of boutique law practices in South Africa and Zimbabwe.