Vancouver, BC, Canada - June 15, 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada - EurOmax Resources, a mineral mining copmany, announced that it has appointed Martyn Konig as non-executive chairman, Steve Sharpe as president and CEO, and Varshan Gokool as CFO.
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Mr. Konig has 30 years experience in investment banking and the commodity markets. Until February 2012 he was Executive Chairman and President of European Goldfields Limited. He is a Non-Executive Director of TSX listed New Gold Inc. and was Chief Executive Officer of Blackfish Capital Group from 2005 until August 2009. He has extensive experience in the natural resource sector, which includes senior management responsibility in resource finance and commodity trading operations at various international investment banks.
Mr. Konig was a main Board Director of NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd. for 15 years and held senior positions at Goldman Sachs and UBS. He is a Barrister and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
Mr. Sharpe was previously Senior Vice President, Business Development at European Goldfields Limited from July 2010 until March 2012, where he focused on raising the profile of the Company in the European and North American market and developing the optimum financing solution for the advancement of the Company's gold assets.
Prior to that Mr. Sharpe was Managing director (Structured Finance) at Canaccord Genuity. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience, focused on the mining sector and has held senior management positions at Endeavour Financial, Standard Bank, and NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd. He holds a BA (Hons) in European Business Studies.
Mr. Gokool previously served as VP and Treasurer at European Goldfields, where he was responsible, among other duties, for the sourcing and execution of debt financing for the Hellas Gold and Certej Projects.
Mr. Gokool has had a number of corporate and banking mining roles prior to European Goldfields, including being Treasurer at Katanga Mining Limited, a Vice President in Societe Generale's Mining Finance team and worked for Ashanti Goldfields as a Risk Manager. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town with a B.Bus.Sci (Finance), and is a CFA Charterholder.
The Company also announced that Tim Morgan-Wynne was appointed to the board as a non-executive director. Mr. Morgan-Wynne was the CFO of European Goldfields until March 2012 and prior to this, he was a Director of the Resources and Energy Group at HSBC Bank plc. ■