Directors
Mr Wayne David Norris
Managing Director
Mr Norris has over 25 years’ experience in the field of metallurgical processing and commissioning. His career spans from process operating to senior management of the successful Sally Malay 750,000 TPA nickel sulphide recovery plant. More recently, Mr Norris was a member of the senior management team of the OM (Manganese) Limited Bootu Creek manganese project in the Northern Territory.
Mr Norris has been involved at senior management levels in the commissioning of five processing facilities in Australia, being the Haveluck Gold Mine in Meekatharra WA, the Ranger Uranium Mines project at Jabiru in the Northern Territory, the Mt Todd Gold Mines Stage 1 and 2 in the Northern Territory, the Sally Malay project for Kimberley Nickel Mines in Western Australia and the OMH OM (Manganese) Limited Manganese project in the Northern Territory. His extensive metallurgical knowledge has included the training of nationals in Ghana at the Damang mine site for two years for Goldfields Ghana Ltd.
Tunku Naquiyuddin
Non-Executive Director
Tunku Naquiyuddin is a prominent Malaysian businessman and is presently the Chairman of Sino Hua-An International Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia (formerly known as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) with a substantial business in China. He is also the chairman of the board of Kian Joo Can Factory Berhad a company which is also listed on Bursa Malaysia.
Tunku Naquiyuddin was a former diplomat and represented the foreign mission of Malaysia in Paris. He is also a keen environmentalist and was a committee member for the World Wide Fund for Nature (Malaysia) and a council member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva.
Tunku Naquiyuddin’s interests include being a founding chairman of The Federation of Public Listed Companies Berhad in Malaysia. He was also the head of the Malaysia-France Economic and Trade Association for 8 years.
As chairman of the Alliance Francaise in Malaysia for over 18 years, he was instrumental in the promotion of Malaysia-France cultural and business links. He was nominated by the Malaysian Minister of Finance to sit on the committee of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in 1989 for five years.
Mr Alan Peter Taylor
Non-Executive Director
Mr Taylor completed a Bachelor of Business from Curtin University in 1984 and is a Chartered Accountant with over 22 years’ experience in providing taxation and accounting advice to the corporate and business sector. He worked for the Australian Taxation Office for eight years. Mr Taylor holds a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is currently the principal of a public practice specializing in tax and corporate services. Prior to commencing public practice, Mr Taylor was a senior manager with KPMG and the taxation principal of a West Perth accounting practice.
Mr Brian David Thomas
Non-Executive Director
Mr Thomas was formerly a Director of Corporate Finance with a major Australian Bank and a Vice President with a global investment banking group. He has extensive experience with the financing of energy and resource projects. Mr Thomas has also been director of several mining companies including Chrome Corporation Limited, where as managing director he was instrumental in the acquisition and finance of a chrome mining project in South Africa. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a senior associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
Company Secretary
Mr Anthony Ho
Mr Ho graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 with Deloittes. Mr Ho is presently the principal of a public practice, specializing in providing corporate and financial services to ASX-listed companies. Prior to establishing his practice in 1991, he spent 7 years in a senior corporate role with a major investment and resource group in Western Australia.
Team in Ghana
Mr Paul Gyasi
Finance Director
Mr. Gyasi holds an M.A from the University of Greenwich and is a Chartered Management Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in (Ghana).
Mr Gyasi has considerable experience in finance and brings with him extensive in-country knowledge with his appointment to Noble. His career in finance has seen him in positions of Administration Manager for Golden Star Resources.
Chief Accountant and Treasurer with Abosso Goldfields (Ranger Minerals) where he was responsible for managing the Finance Department and the company’s liquidity in London and the Ghanaian Money Markets. While at Abosso, Mr. Gyasi helped build many SME’s in the mining community and offered free business advisory services to many companies in and around Tarkwa.
Mr, Gyasi served with distinction for 8 years as an Accountant with Trafalgar House Group/Kvaener in UK, where he was involved in the strategic plan for the company. In the UK, Mr. Gyasi also has worked for Virgin Group, Bereshford Pension Fund and Theo & Co. Mr. Gyasi is also a partner of KAP Consultancy, a management consultancy firm in Ghana.
SEMS ExplorationSEMS Exploration Services is the leading full-service mineral exploration consultancy company in West Africa and offer a wide range of technical services including; Geological Consultancy, Geospatial Services (GIS and Remote Sensing), Database Management, Surveying, Software Training, Investment Advice and Project Management.
Since its inception in 2000, SEMS Exploration has grown from its headquarters in Accra, Ghana to cover most countries in West Africa. Now not only a gold explorer, SEMS Exploration is experienced in diamond, bauxite, iron ore, kaolin, manganese and water exploration.
The company's successful commercialisation of mineral resources has gained us clients ranging from private investors to junior explorers and major mining companies.