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Board Change
Alecto Minerals plc (AIM:ALO), an AIM quoted mineral exploration company focussed on West and East Africa, has announced that Mark Wellesley-Wood, who has enjoyed an extensive career in the City gaining over 40 years’ experience in both the mining and investment banking sectors, will be joining the Board as Non-Executive Chairman with immediate effect. Mr Wellesley-Wood is replacing Michael Johnson who is stepping down from the Board to pursue other business interests.
Mr Wellesley-Wood is a mining engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Until recently he was a director within corporate finance of Investec Investment Banking and Securities in London, prior to which he was Head of Corporate Finance at Ambrian Partners. Mr Wellesley-Wood also previously worked at the former Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as Global Sector Head for Mining.
Mr Wellesley-Wood has been closely involved in mining activities in Africa throughout his career, having held the positions of Executive Chairman and CEO of South African gold miner, DRDGold Limited. Other previous directorships include his position as CEO of Metallon Corporation Ltd, which operates gold mines in Zimbabwe, Non-Executive Director of Oxus Gold plc at the time of its IPO, Non-Executive Chairman of Mwana Africa plc and Executive Chairman of UK tin miner Geevor Ltd.
Alecto’s CEO, Mark Jones, commented:
“I am delighted to welcome Mark to the Alecto Board and look forward to benefitting from his wealth of experience in the mining and investment arenas. His expertise and network will be particularly useful as we pursue our strategy of building value across our gold and base metal portfolio in Africa through exploration and by rolling out our joint venture model, which has been successfully applied to our Ethiopian gold assets. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mike for his support during his tenure and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.”
