Directors of the Company

Mr Alasdair Campbell Cooke BSc(Hons)
Executive Chairman

Mr. Cooke has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since incorporation. Mr Cooke is qualified as a geologist and has been involved throughout his career in mineral exploration and corporate development, including six years spent with BHP Minerals Business Development Group and over ten years managing public resource companies.

Mr Cooke is a founding partner of the Mitchell River Group, which over the past eight years has established a number of successful resources companies, including ASX listed Sally Malay Mining Ltd, now known as Panoramic Resources, (operating the Savannah, formerly Sally Malay, and Lanfranchie nickel projects in Australia), AIM and ASX listed Albidon Ltd (operating the Munali nickel project in Zambia), ASX listed Mirabela Nickel Ltd (developing the Santa Rita nickel project in Brazil), ASX listed Exco Resources Ltd (developing copper and gold resources in Australia) and ASX listed Energy Ventures Ltd (developing uranium projects in Sweden).  Mr Cooke is a former director of Sally Malay Mining Ltd and is currently an Executive Director of African Energy Resources Ltd, Energy Ventures Ltd, Albidon Ltd, and Exco Resources Ltd.

Dr Charles Frazer Tabeart
Managing Director

Dr Tabeart is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines with a PhD and Honours in Mining Geology. He has over twenty years experience in international exploration and mining projects, including sixteen years with WMC Resources. Whilst at WMC, Dr Tabeart managed exploration portfolios in the Philippines, Mongolia and Africa, gaining considerable experience in a wide variety of commodities and operating with staff from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Dr Tabeart joined the Mitchell River Group of companies in August 2005, initially as Head of Exploration for Albidon Limited, and subsequently as General Manager for African Energy Resources Ltd. Under his stewardship the Company delineated the uranium resources in the Chirundu Joint Venture in southern Zambia and exploration discoveries in the Kariba Valley of Zambia at at Foley in Botswana. He was appointed Managing Director in November 2007 and has since led the Company through Prefeasibility Studies and into Bankable Feasibility Study at Chirundu.

Dr Tabeart is currently also an Executive Director for Agricola Resource plc, a UK listed resource company exploring for uranium, copper and gold in Sweden, and a Director of the Mitchell River Group. He is also one of the founders of Norrlands Resources which is evaluating a large portfolio of nickel exploration tenements in Sweden.

Mr Gregory William (Bill) Fry
Executive Director

Mr Fry has more than 18 years corporate experience in the mining and resources industry, specialising in accounting, management, business development and general corporate activities.  He has wide experience in project evaluation and development, project funding, management, finance and operations.  Over the past 12 years Mr Fry has been an Executive Director of Eclipse Resources, a private resource equities investment fund.  He was also an Executive Director of several other private companies with activities that included minerals exploration, mining and quarrying, land development and waste management. 

Mr Valentine Chitalu MPhil, BAcc, FACCA
Non-Executive Director

Mr Chitalu, who is a Zambian national and resident, is a Chartered Certified Accountant, Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and holds a practicing certificate from the Zambia Institute of Certified Accountants.  He also holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, Finance and Politics of Development and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance.  Mr Chitalu has had both an international and local career over a period of fifteen years in the fields of private equity, privatisation, merchant banking, corporate finance, accounting, auditing, development economics, capital markets and business/private sector development in transitional economies.  He has a significant interest in private sector development in the region and is extensively networked in the region.

Mr Chitalu has worked for Meridien Financial Services as Manager, Corporate Finance and Zambia Privatisation Agency as Chief Executive Officer and most recently as Central African Director with CDC (formerly Commonwealth Development Corporation).  He currently holds directorships in various private entities.

Mr Michael Paul Curnow
Non-Executive Director

Mr Curnow brings extensive experience in the resources sector in gold, platinum and mineral sands exploration to the Company which will be significant for the future development of African Energy.  He has been involved in the ownership and management of a wide range of businesses, in South Africa and Australia. He was a founding director of Gallery Gold Limited and AGR Limited. Mr Curnow is a non-executive Director of Energy Ventures Limited.

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