A geologist enjoying over 32 years experience in gold and base metals, with a distinct focus on Africa, Europe and Asia. Tim has worked at all stages of exploration, project development and mine operations, and has a strong track record of delivery, both at the technical and commercial level.
Some of his more notable roles whilst with Barrick Gold Corp (2000-2014) include Exploration Manager (Eurasia), CEO of Tethyan Copper Company Pty Ltd (a Joint Venture between Antofagasta Minerals and Barrick Gold Corp) and Managing Director Middle East. After leaving Barrick, Tim retained a Board role in Tethyan Copper Company and supported the Company through successful International Arbitration against the Government of Pakistan.
Moving in to the junior mining space, Tim had roles as COO of TSX.V-listed Reservoir Minerals Inc. (which was sold in June 2016 to TSX-listed Nevsun Resources Ltd for US$365 million) and Managing Director of Rakita d.o.o. Serbia (the operating company of the Cukaru Peki project) before joining the company in March 2018.
Bob is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He trained as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse, qualifying in 1992, and has a BSc in geography from Durham University. Bob has extensive experience working for AIM-quoted companies, where he has been heavily involved in turnaround situations, fundraisings and acquisitions.
In partnership with three different CEOs, Bob was instrumental in the turnaround and subsequent growth of AIM-listed Universe Group Plc as Group Finance Director, seeing its market capitalization increase from £1.5m to £25m during his tenure.
Prior to the Universe Group, Bob was European Finance Director for OpSec Security Limited, where he was heavily involved in formulating and implementing a very successful reconstruction plan. The restructuring plan stemmed annual operating losses of £2.5million and moved the Company to a profit situation in the first year of its implementation.
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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another live investment summit with Oriel Resources, hosted by 6. Speaker 1: Today we're going to be focusing on Somala and Orioles' prime position in a richly endowed mining district. Speaker 1: I'm pleased to introduce our speakers, Speaker 1: Tim Livesey, Speaker 1: Chief Executive Officer and Claire Bay, VP Exploration and Business Development. Speaker 1: The team is going to walk you through a company presentation Speaker 1: and then we will be accepting questions. Speaker 1: As a reminder, you can submit your questions in the Q&A panel on the right-hand side of your screen. Today's presentation is also available in the handout section if you'd like to download that and follow along. Speaker 1: Without further ado, I'm gonna hand it over to Tim to kick things off. Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Jane. Speaker 2: Well, welcome everybody, Speaker 2: and Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. Speaker 2: For those of you who Speaker 2: are new to Oriel, we're Speaker 2: an UK AIM-listed Speaker 2: junior explorer with a focus in West Africa primarily, Cameroon and Senegal. Speaker 2: Between The management and board of Oriel, we have extensive base and precious metals expertise Speaker 2: with a real focus on Africa. Speaker 2: Collectively, Speaker 2: I won't go into how many decades because it'll just embarrass some of the older members of the board. Speaker 2: As a company, Speaker 2: we Speaker 2: have main focus on early-stage exploration in Cameroon. That's our Speaker 2: main active project for which we've recently raised some money. But we've got a lot of value tied up in other assets and primarily Speaker 2: in the Sonala license in Senegal. Speaker 2: And here we have Irongold investing Speaker 2: in an $8M earning into the proj...
