Mr. Botts, who will assume his new role on 1August 2022 based in Quito, is a Senior Mining Executive, Director, and Consultant with over 40 years of international mining experience in the development of mining projects, socio-environmental management, and sustainable development. Mr. Botts has extensive Latin America experience, having worked in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru. He is fluent in English and Spanish and holds a Master of Environmental Policy and Management.
Mr. Botts is a deeply experienced leader in cross cultural and international business relations with a proven ability at developing partnerships and delivering projects. Notable achievements include his leadership in the successful permitting of the Antamina project, formation of the Mina Justa project team and taking the project through to a viable Feasibility Study, and the turnaround of Tahoe Peru to a more efficient and value-oriented organisation that achieved safety and production goals under very challenging circumstances.
Mr. Loyer, who joins SolGold on 27July 2022 based in Quito, is a Project Mining Executive with over 35 years of international mining experience including over 20 years’ in LATAM, having worked in Peru, Mexico, Chile and Argentina. A mechanical engineer, fluent in English and Spanish, Mr. Loyer holds multiple patents for the design of process and material handling equipment.
Mr. Loyer has a proven track record delivering large scale mining projects including Goldcorp´s Penasquito Project in Zacatecas, Mexico, Goldcorp´s Cerro Negro Project in Santa Cruz, Argentina and Torex Gold´s Morelos Project in Guerrero, Mexico. Mr. Loyer spent five years at FLSmidth Minerals based in Copenhagen serving as Vice President, Minerals Technology and Chief Product Officer where he was responsible for all global process technology, manufacturing and material handling. Prior to that he served 15 years with BHP Billiton, spending the last 10 years in Peru and Chile where he held operational leadership positions. Mr. Loyer has served on the boards of various international companies including KOCH-MVT Material Handling, RAHCO International, Conveyor Engineering, Excel Foundry and CEIM Centro de Entrenamiento Industrial y Minero in Antofagasta, Chile.
Mr. Gandhi will start with the Company on 1August 2022 based in Brisbane and joins SolGold having previously worked at Gladstone Ports Corporation where he held the role as the first General Counsel & Company Secretary. In addition to several years as a private practice lawyer with leading law firms, King & Wood Mallesons, O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Slaughter and May LLP, Mr. Gandhi has previously been Senior Legal Counsel at APA Group and ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited.
Mr. Gandhi has over twenty years of legal, company secretarial and corporate governance experience working in multiple jurisdictions including in Australia, UK, Singapore and the US. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2002, admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria and received a Practicing Certificate from Queensland Law Society in 2018. He also became a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in January 2022.
Liam Twigger, the Chairman of the Board wishes to thank Dennis Wilkins for his dedication and commitment in providing Company Secretarial services to SolGold.
Darryl Cuzzubbo, SolGold Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer said: “On behalf of the Board, I am pleased to welcome Steve, Bernie and Rufus to SolGold. We are very fortunate to have them joining us. They bring the skills, experience and energy that we need to assist SolGold to realise its full potential as an organisation. These appointments demonstrate our commitment to growing and developing our business, building on SolGold’s past success as we progress through the next phase. Steve, Bernie and Rufus were attracted to these roles because they want to play a significant role in realising the incredible opportunity that Cascabel and SolGold presents for Ecuador as the next Copper frontier when the world needs it most.”
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