Management Team

Len Comerford

BSc. (Eng), Chief Executive Officer

Mr Comerford is an engineering graduate of University College Cork who has been working in the mining, engineering, financing and development sectors in Africa since 1986.

Mr Comerford has worked in a number of senior roles for the P.W. Group, a specialist African construction and mining contractor based in Ireland for 13 years. His experience includes planning and implementing mining and quarrying operations, working on feasibility and planning for mines and contract and financing negotiations with companies including AngloGold Ashanti, Resolute Mining, Goldfields Ghana, Placerdome Tanzania, Goldenstar Resources, Redback (Chirano) Mining, Satellite Goldfields, Sierra Mineral Holdings, HSBC and BNP Paribas.

Mr. Comerford is currently a Director of P.W. Ghana Ltd., P.W. Mining Limited and P.W. Mining International Limited.

Raju Jaddoo

F.C.A., A.C.A, Chief Financial Officer

Over the last eighteen years he has gained extensive experience undertaking assignments in developing countries across Africa and Eastern Europe involving balancing national and various macro-economic interests. He has also been involved in several local and international corporate finance transactions. Mr. Jaddoo has worked on a number of World Bank funded assignments by providing a broad range of economic, financial, organisational and socio-economic planning services to government and private industry. He has advised and assisted international industry experts in formulating innovative strategies in the provision of public services by the private sector (public private partnerships, executive agencies, contracting out, output based contracts) in diverse fields such as transportation and logistics, power, telecommunications, ports and airports, water and sanitation and environmental solid waste management. Mr. Jaddoo is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

John Bonoh Sisay

Director of Corporate Affairs

Mr. Sisay started his career as a graduate trainee at the Central Selling Organization (CSO) of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd where he learned the contours of the mining industry, in particularly with regards to diamonds. After working at the CSO, Mr. Sisay joined America Minerals Fields, now part of First Quantum, and worked on new acquisitions for the company, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. Sisay joined SRL in 2001.

Walter Kansteiner, III

MA., M.T.S., Non-executive Chairman

Mr. Kansteiner has over twenty years’ experience with African and emerging market business issues. A founding principal of The Scowcroft Group, he has advised corporations on a wide range of mergers, acquisitions and privatisations throughout Africa and has been involved with transactions in telecommunications, forestry, mining, financial services, healthcare and aviation services. Previously, Mr. Kansteiner served three years as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. In this capacity, he was responsible for U.S. foreign policy in Africa. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Kansteiner was executive vice president of a commodity trading and processing company, which specialised in tropical commodities (coffee, cocoa and sugar). In addition to his business experience in emerging markets, from 1989 to 1992, Mr. Kansteiner served in the U.S. government as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council staff. He also served as the Africa specialist on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and with the Department of Defense as a member of the strategic minerals task force. He holds graduate degrees in international economics and ethics from American University and Virginia Theological Seminary, respectively. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, chairs the Africa Policy Advisory Panel (a congressionally mandated advisory group) and serves on various boards in the U.S. and Africa.

Rod Baker

MSc., Non-executive Director

Mr. Baker has worked for thirty five years as a mineral exploration geologist in many countries in five continents. He started his professional career in North Sea gas as a geologist before joining the Anglo American Corporation to work in southern Africa. He then joined a South African consulting group and carried out work for clients such as Rio Tinto, Selection Trust, U.S. Steel, Falconbridge and Billiton on a number of commodities. In 1981, he became an independent consultant working largely for the United Nations and other clients in Africa, India and the Americas. For the last sixteen years he has been mostly engaged in pursuit of his own diamond and gold interests in South America. He has a long familiarity with Sierra Leone and West Africa. He was also a founding director of Diamond Field Resources Inc. Mr. Baker received a B.Sc. in geology from Nottingham University and an M.Sc. in mineral exploration from Leicester University.

Mr. Alex B. Kamara

B.Sc. Mech., B.Sc. Elec., P.Eng.

Alex is 68 years old and a Sierra Leonean national. Mr. Kamara has considerable experience in the mining industry and in mechanical and electrical engineering. Mr. Kamara was Head of Engineering at SRL 1982 to 1995, and head of the management team at the Sierra Leonean National Power Authority from 2000-2002.

Mr.Kamara is a Non-Executive Director of Cemmats Group, a Sierra Leonean company which has a number of contracts for the supervision of the construction of Dredge 3 which is currently ongoing and the new power house at Sierra Rutile Limited.

Dr. Stuart David Brown

Marketing Director

Dr. Brown was appointed marketing director of Natural Rutile in February 2005. In 1997, he established his own consulting firm, Strategies & Solutions Ltd, which provides a comprehensive range of commercial and technical services to international companies engaged in the production of titanium feedstocks and pigment. Previously, Dr. Brown worked twenty years with the Tioxide Group, now Huntsman Tioxide, in a variety of management positions, including titanium feedstock development, process research and development, chloride process TiO2 pigment production and ore purchasing. Dr. Brown graduated in 1977 with a PhD in metallurgy from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Sahr Wonday

Deputy General Manager, Sierra Rutile

Mr. Wonday is a first class honours graduate from the Royal School of Mines (ICL) and during his 25 years at SRL he has held a number of senior positions at SRL in a range of different areas. He is also a Chartered Certified Accountant in the UK. Mr. Wonday worked in each of the production plants of SRL prior to assuming control of its technical services department, which is responsible for geology, mine planning and development, plant metallurgy and laboratory services. Mr. Wonday has also been instrumental in the process design and commissioning of various retreatment plants that have boosted rutile production and profitability. A particularly notable achievement was the development and operation of a patented process for zircon flotation which significantly enhanced the production of rutile in the fine size range.