Directors
PATRICK ESNOUF (Chairman)
Mr Esnouf has been a Director of Andean since November 2005 and was appointed Chairman in January 2007. Previously, Mr Esnouf was a senior executive with the Anglo American Group and spent 17 years in Anglo's South American operations where he played a leading role in the expansion of Anglo American interests in South America.
His most recent roles were as CEO of the substantial Chilean operations and then Chairman of Anglo South America. He has also managed Anglo business units in Brazil, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina and was involved in the development of the Cerro Vanguardia gold/silver mine in the same region as Andean's Cerro Negro project.
WARREN GILMOUR CPA (Director)
Mr Gilmour, who is based in Perth, West Australia was one of the founding Directors of Andean and was Chairman of the Board until January 2007. Warren is a Certified Practising Accountant with post graduate qualifications from the Harvard Business School, Boston USA. He has extensive experience at senior levels in both public and private companies in banking, finance and project management.
WAYNE HUBERT B.Sc (Chemical Engineering) MBA (Managing Director)
Mr. Hubert was most recently Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations with a successful Candaian based midsize gold producer with a market capitalization of approximately US$3 billion. During his 14 year career with the company, Mr Hubert gained considerable experience in the areas of finance, project development and construction, exploration and investor relations. During this period the company grew into a highly profitable, mid-tier North American gold producer as it developed the potential of its El Penon epithermal gold mine in Chile.
MORRICE CORDINER LLB, ASIA (Executive Director)
Morrice Cordiner has over 15 years experience in the Finance and Resources industries both in the UK and Australia and has been involved in the financing and management of a number of junior listed companies, predominantly in the mining sector. Mr Cordiner was formerly an executive director of Waverley Mining Australia, a funds management group that specialised in investing in the Australian Resources sector. In this capacity he held a number of board positions as Waverley's representative on its investee company boards. He is currently also a director of Discovery Nickel Limited.
IAN HUME (Non Executive Director)
Mr Ian Hume has over 30 years experience in the corporate development of, and equity raising for a wide variety of resources projects. He is a former partner in BAIN & Co, stockbrokers, a former director of Ariadne Australia and was, for a number of years, a strategic consultant to the private capital group of the AMP Limited. Mr Hume is also a founding partner and current Executive Director of the US$170 Million Sentient Global Resource Fund which has offices in Sydney and Montreal.
BARRY BOLITHO B.Sc (Extractive Metallury) FAusIMM (Non Executive Director)
Mr Bolitho holds tertiary qualifications in both metallurgy and chemistry and has over 29 years experience in the minerals industry. During this time he has gained extensive experience with nickel, mineral sands, tin, tantalum, gold and silver. Over the last 15 years he has held a number of executive management positions in the resource sector including board positions with both producer and exploration companies. Mr Bolitho has been responsible for the development and executive management of greenfields projects in Australia and offshore and has an extensive experience base over most facets of the minerals industry including acting as an Independent Expert for a number of financial institutions.
Richard Lorson BSc (1975) and MSc (1977) in Geology from the University of Akron, Ohio (Non Executive Director)
Richard, who is based in Reno, Nevada has had an extensive career in the resources business. His early career was spent in uranium exploration in the western US before joining FMC Minerals as a Project Geologist in 1981. Richard subsequently worked throughout the western US in precious metals exploration and spent 3 years as the exploration manager at FMC Gold's Paradise Peak gold-silver mine in Nevada.
In January 1993 he moved to Chile with FMC to open an exploration office for gold, and during the first year in Chile the program discovered the El Penon mine in northern Chile. The mine was put into production in July 1999, and for the last 8 years has been either the lowest or one of the lowest cost gold mines in the world. Richard was the VP Exploration from 1996-2002 for the company and throughout the development of El Penon.
After leaving the company, Richard started a privately funded exploration company, Platte River Gold focusing on Nevada and Mexico. The company has raised more than US $21 million since its startup in 2004 and has an early development stage silver-base metal project in Mexico.