John Gordon Park
BSc (Hons), FAusIMM, CPMan , MAIME
Chairman

John graduated from the University of Queensland in 1971 and worked in metallurgical operations in the UK, Australia and Zambia until 1978. His appointment as a Senior Consultant and Project Manager at Selection Trust (Seltrust) Engineering in London enabled him to work on a number of base and precious metals projects around the world.

Following Seltrust’s acquisition by BP in 1984, John held a number of senior economic and financial positions with BP Minerals, notably with regard to the Bingham, Olympic Dam and Agnew operations, and the development of the Ridgeway, Greens Creek and Oryx precious metals mines. He was also Investment Manager of BP’s extensive minerals share portfolio.

After two years as Commercial Director of Cluff Minerals in London, with executive secondments to Australia and Zimbabwe, and having introduced Cluff to Tanzania, John joined SAMAX Resources in late 1989, when the company was founded. As Executive Director, he was responsible for operations, finance, and the company’s east African assets, including its Geita properties and Golden Pride, which became Tanzania’s first gold mine.

John joined African Eagle as a Director in 1998 and combines a sound knowledge of east Africa with a record of success in the business and financial side of the minerals industry. He is also a Director of TSX-listed Longview Capital Partners Inc and ASX-listed Tasman Goldfields Limited, and has held positions on the boards of a number of AIM and other listed and unlisted companies including Buffalo Gold, Cambridge Minerals, Hereward Ventures (now Encore Oil), GoldFX (acquired by Buffalo), and Central Queensland Resources (now Midas).

Euan Arthur Worthington
CEng, MSc, DIC, BSc (Hons), FIMMM
Non-executive Deputy Chairman

Euan has more than 20 years’ experience in the City of London as a Mining Analyst and Corporate Finance Specialist, and provides the Company with a strong financial background to complement the technical skills of the other directors.

After graduating in geology from King’s College London, Euan spent three years as a mine and exploration geologist in Zimbabwe and Namibia. He returned to London and took his MSc in Mineral Production Management at the Royal School of Mines, before joining Hoare Govett in 1983 as a Mining Analyst. He moved to Shearson Lehman in 1985 and in 1988 joined the international mining group at S.G. Warburg Securities. After nine years with Warburg as Head of Global Mining Research and later on the Corporate Finance team, he headed the metals and mining corporate finance team at BZW before moving to the same position at ABN AMRO.

Euan participated, as Team Leader or Mining Adviser, in numerous major corporate finance projects during the 1990s. He has direct experience in Tanzania, through his work on advising Sutton Resources with its 10 million ounce Bulyanhulu deposit, and elsewhere in Africa, through his work with Falconbridge Gold on its projects in Zimbabwe and his participation in the structuring of Zambia Copper Investments and its proposed financing of the Konkola Deep project.

Euan is a Fellow and past member of the council of the IMMM, and a member of the SMME and the Association of Mining Analysts.

Mark Edwin Parker
BA (Hons), MIMMM
Managing Director

Mark combines a specialist background in mineral exploration with a thorough knowledge of eastern and southern Africa. In 1992 he published an influential report on the Tanzanian mining industry in association with the Mining Journal. Mark’s career began with the British Geological Survey, with seven years of mineral exploration and other geophysical projects in the UK, Africa and Latin America. He moved to Hunting Geology and Geophysics Ltd in 1982 to manage airborne and ground geophysical surveys in Mozambique, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the UK.

In 1987, he became an independent consultant, undertaking projects in Africa, the Near East, the Middle East and Europe for clients including mining and oil companies, the EU, IAEA, UNDP and Finnida. For much of this period he was based in Tanzania, as a geophysical adviser providing consultancy and practical services to the governments of the region. In 1992, Mark took the post of Manager, Southeast Asia for ARK Geophysics Limited, one of the world’s leading gravity and magnetic survey contractors. He retained his enthusiasm for the mineral potential of east Africa and returned to found African Eagle in late 1996.

Christopher Davies
FAusIMM, FSEG, MSc, DIC, BSc (Hons)
Operations Director

Chris has more than 25 years’ experience in mineral exploration, resource evaluation and business development. After gaining an honours degree in geology in 1979 from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, he spent three years in Zambia as an exploration geologist for Anglo American Corporation. After this, he completed an MSc in mineral exploration at Imperial College London (RSM) in 1984 and then worked on exploration projects in various parts of the world, including Guinea, Yemen, Australia, Indonesia and Tanzania.

From 1991 to 1998 Chris was SAMAX Gold’s Manager for east Africa, based in Tanzania, and was responsible for all aspects of that company’s exploration and business development, including the discovery of Kukuluma gold deposit at Geita, and the Golden Pride deposit, Tanzania’s first gold mine. In late 1998, while still with SAMAX, Chris took a three-month business management course at the Harvard Business School, prior to the acquisition of SAMAX by Ashanti Gold Fields.

From 1999, Chris worked on various projects as an independent consultant, including a due diligence study of two graphite mining companies in Sri Lanka and a market study of tantalum for the African Eagle group. Chris was appointed Director in early 2001.

Bevan John Metcalf
Bachelor of Management Studies, ACA (NZ)
Finance Director & Company Secretary

Bevan is a chartered accountant with 25 years’ experience in the UK, Europe, USA and Australasia. He was granted membership to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand in 1986.

Bevan has worked for a number of large listed companies, including ICI, SmithKline Beecham and Orion Corporation. During his 11 years with SmithKline Beecham, he held a number of senior positions, including Head of European Financial Planning and European Controller. He was heavily involved in the 1990 merger between SmithKline and Beecham before being transferred to establish the European HQ in Belgium.

Bevan returned to the UK in 1995, where he was recruited as Finance Director and Company Secretary for Orion Corporation. He was a founder member of the UK affiliate, participating in the startup and strategic development of the business between 1995 and 2003.

Bevan was appointed Finance Director of African Eagle in 2004 and in 2005 he assumed the additional position of Company Secretary. In addition to his role at African Eagle Bevan is CFO of Mano River Resources Inc a TSX and AIM listed exploration and development company with operations in West Africa.

Geoffrey Cooper
LL.B
Non-executive Director

Geoffrey is a lawyer with many years’ experience in the international mining industry. After practicing as a barrister for six years he joined Tanganyika Holdings, where his responsibilities included that company’s interests in the Ashton diamond venture and several North Sea oil and gas consortia.

From 1977 to 1989 Geoffrey was an in-house Legal Adviser at BP Minerals which, through organic growth and the acquisitions of Selection Trust and Kennecott, developed rapidly into a global mining business. He had a key role in BP teams negotiating joint venture, project management and royalty agreements, contracts for the sale and shipment of products, various project financings, the sale of non-core assets and companies, and the reconstruction of a listed subsidiary, Seltrust Holdings.

After the sale of BP Minerals to Rio Tinto, Geoffrey continued working in the natural resources sector until his appointment as Legal Adviser at Vodafone in 1998, a post from which he retired in 2004.

Geoffrey is a founder shareholder of African Eagle and was appointed to the board in 2003.