Executive Officers

Martyn Buttenshaw, 44
Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Buttenshaw has over 20 years of investment, natural resources and industrials experience as a senior executive. He is also an experienced non-executive director, currently serving as Chairman of Atacama Copper Corp. and as a director of Ranchero Gold Corp. Previously, Mr. Buttenshaw served as Operating Partner at Antarctica Capital where he was responsible for managing investments in the metals and minerals sector, with a particular focus upon the raw materials supply chain for the electric vehicle and renewable energy sectors. Prior to Antarctica, Mr. Buttenshaw was a Managing Director and spent ten years at Pala Investments, a metals and minerals focused private equity firm, responsible for deal origination, mergers and acquisition, strategy development, and project financing across a range of metals and mining related industry sectors and geographies. Mr. Buttenshaw has also held senior roles with Anglo American in business development and M&A and as a senior mining engineer with Rio Tinto. He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Master’s of Engineering (First Class) in Mining Engineering from Imperial College, London and an MBA (with distinction) from the London Business School.

John van Eeghen, 40
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. van Eeghen has over 18 years of experience working in finance and capital markets-related roles. This includes 15 years of experience working in the mining and energy space where he has been deeply involved in originating, structuring, and sourcing funding for opportunities, as well as creating innovative technology solutions to support the industry through improved transparency and stakeholder engagement. Mr. van Eeghen began his career at Ocean Equities (subsequently bought by Pareto Securities) in equity sales before joining GMP Securities (Europe) LLP (subsequently acquired by Stifel Financial Corp.) where he became a Partner. He has extensive experience including equity financing, debt, off-take agreements and structured notes, and has worked on both public market and private equity transactions. In addition to his capital markets work, Mr. van Eeghen has been a strong advocate for responsible corporate practice and transparency in the mining industry. He founded Reality Check Systems Limited (“Reality Check”) in 2015, which created a digital tool for the mining industry designed to build trust between companies and their stakeholders through greater transparency. The service has been utilized by some of the largest mining companies in the world and supports a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Reality Check has been working in association with the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services Group since 2018. Mr. van Eeghen holds a BA (Honors) from Newcastle University in Financial & Business Economics.

Board of Directors

Marie Pierre Bertrand Boulle, 67
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Bertrand Boulle is a senior natural resources executive and financial services professional. He is currently non-executive director of the publicly listed mining exploration company Diamond Fields Resources (TSX-DFR), non-executive director of publicly-listed Omnicane Limited, director of Investors Europe (Mauritius) Ltd. and CEO and director of Sun King™ Diamonds Ltd. Mr. Bertrand Boulle has over 15 years of in-country mining and diamond project administration experience with De Beers as well as other mining and oilfield services companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Guinea and Sierra Leone. He also has over 20 years of in- depth operational experience in compliance regulation within global financial markets spanning four regulated jurisdictions (UK, Gibraltar, Portugal, Mauritius). Mr. Bertrand Boulle has held senior posts and has been a regulated person for EU banks and financial institutions and worked for BNP Capital Markets (BNP Paribas) and BNC Corretora (now part of Santander Portugal). He also successfully launched two EU-based regulated stockbrokers for Portuguese institutions as well as his own low-risk stockbroker model in 2001. Mr. Bertrand Boulle is fluent in Portuguese, French and English and holds a BA Hons from the University of Ulster and an MBA from EU Business School.

Carlo Calabria, 60
Director

Mr. Calabria has close to 40 years of experience in the financial services sector and has held senior leadership positions in major international investment banks. From 2016 to 2020, he served as Head of Banking for Barclays Europe and was responsible for the investment banking activities in CEEMENA. Mr. Calabria has also served as Head of International M&A first at Credit Suisse as well as Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He is the Founder and Chairman of CMC Capital Limited, an independent investment banking boutique firm and rejoined this firm at the beginning of 2021. In February 2021, alongside Heritage, Mr. Calabria co-sponsored Centricus Acquisition Corp., a $345 million SPAC IPO listed on the NASDAQ. The SPAC successfully completed its initial business combination with software company Arqit Quantum Inc. (ticker ARQQ and ARQQW) in September 2021 and Mr. Calabria now serves on Arqit Quantum’s board of directors. He holds an M.A. in Economics (Honors) from Rome University, La Sapienza.

Helen Pein, 59
Independent Director

Ms. Pein has over 35 years of experience as an economic geologist in the natural resources sector. Ms. Pein is currently a director of Trident Resources plc and Pan Iberia Ltd. (UK) as well as a founding member of Panex Resources Pty. Ltd. (SA), a private company focusing on finding and developing global exploration projects. Previously, she was a director and shareholder of Pangea Exploration (Pty) Ltd, where she was part of the small team responsible for the discovery and evaluation of a number of world class gold and mineral sands deposits throughout Africa (Burnstone, Tuluwaka, Buzwagi, Corridor Sands and Kwale). Since 2012, Pangea has been affiliated with metals & mining private equity firm, Denham Capital International, providing asset analysis and technical evaluation of mining investments in Africa. She is currently CEO of Canadian private junior mining company, Goldrange Resources Corp., which is focused on early stage gold projects in Africa. Ms. Pein is a recipient of the Gencor Geology Award and Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa and member of the International Society for Economic Geologists. She holds a B.Sc. Geoscience and a B.Sc. Geology (Hons) (Cum Laude), from the University of Stellenbosch SA.

Raju Jaddoo, 58
Independent Director

Mr. Jaddoo is a corporate finance and investment advisory professional with broad experience in financial management acquired over almost 30 years working in different sectors and several countries. He is currently an independent director on the board of a number of global private equity funds. From 2004 to 2010, Mr. Jaddoo was the Chief Financial Officer of Titanium Resources Group Ltd, a public mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange, where he was responsible for the overall finance function and also deeply involved in several rounds of capital raisings. Previously, Mr. Jaddoo served as the Managing Director of the Board of Investment of Mauritius and spent 15 years as a partner at De Chazal Du Mee Chartered Accountants, the representative firm of Arthur Andersen in Mauritius.

Oliver Turner, 35
Independent Director Nominee

Oliver Turner is a seasoned mining executive and capital markets professional. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Karora Resources, a publicly listed company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (ticker KRR). Karora Resources is a rapidly growing gold producer headquartered in Toronto with assets in Australia. Prior to his role at Karora, Mr. Turner served as Senior Vice President of Precious Metals Equity Research at GMP Securities for six years and was involved in more than $5 billion in M&A transactions and $500 million in equity offerings. Mr. Turner began his career as a mining engineer for Wardrop Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston. He is a CFA Charterholder.