Board of Directors

The Board has a wealth of mining, finance and governance experience across a range of industries and jurisdictions

The Board

David Hathorn

Chairman

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André Baya

Chief Executive Officer (Non-Board)

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Jonathan Trollip

Non-Executive

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David Netherway

Non-Executive

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Wouter Pulinx

Non-Executive

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Amit Kamlesh Kumar Mehta

Non-Executive

David Hathorn

Chairman

David Hathorn is the ex-CEO of the Mondi Group (30 April 2017). The Mondi Group, is a FTSE 100 global packaging and paper listed group on both the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges, with operations in 30 countries and employing 25,000 people. The Mondi Group performed exceptionally well under David’s leadership.
Before Mondi, David was at Anglo American, where he was a member of the Group Executive Committee from 2003 and an Executive Director of Anglo American PLC from 2005, serving on several of the Boards of the Group’s major mining operations.

André Baya

Chief Executive Officer (Non-Board)

André has over 20 years of experience in the global mining and agriculture sectors and brings significant African experience including having held senior positions for groups with operations in the Republic of Congo. Immediately prior to joining Kore Potash, André worked as a management consultant, leading the corporate re-engineering of Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd.’s African subsidiaries and the corporate development of Fortescue Mining Group’s Belinga iron ore project in Gabon. Prior to this, André was Country and General Manager for a variety of global mining corporations including Sundance Resources, Cominco, Roxgold, Alliance Mining Commodities, Orezone and Central Copper Resources. Other notable positions include Chief Operating Officer at Managem Group, the international Moroccan mining group, where he was responsible for the management of the Managem Group’s operations and development projects across eight African nations. Between 1985 and 2001, André spent 15 years in trade and agriculture, in both technical and managerial roles for industrial chemicals and agrochemicals businesses in Africa and beyond.

Jonathan Trollip

Non-Executive

Jonathan is a globally experienced Director (Executive and Non-Executive) with over 30 years of commercial, corporate, transactional, governance and legal experience. He is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of Global Value Fund Ltd (ASX listed), Plato Income Maximiser Limited (ASX listed), Spheria Emerging Companies Limited (ASX listed) and Future Generation Investment Company Ltd and Antipodes Global Investment Company Ltd and holds various private company Directorships in non-profitable organisations.
Jonathan is also a Principal and Director of Meridian International Capital Limited, which is a Sydney (Australia) based structured finance group where he has been in engaged for the past 22 years. During this time, Jonathan has been involved in financing numerous resource transactions in various global locations.
Prior to this, Jonathan was a Partner with Herbert Smith Freehills law firm. He holds postgraduate degrees in economics and law, he is an admitted attorney in both England and Australia and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David Netherway

Non-Executive

David Netherway is a mining engineer with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. He was involved in the construction and development of the New Liberty, Iduapriem, Siguiri, Samira Hill and Kiniero gold mines in West Africa and has mining experience in Africa, Australia, China, Canada, India and the Former Soviet Union. Mr Netherway served as the CEO of Shield Mining until its takeover by Gryphon Minerals.
Prior to that, he was the CEO of Toronto listed Afcan Mining Corporation, a China focused gold mining company that was sold to Eldorado Gold in 2005. He was also the Chairman of Afferro Mining which was acquired by IMIC in 2013. Mr Netherway has held senior management positions in a number of mining companies including Golden Shamrock Mines, Ashanti Goldfields and Semafo Inc.
Mr Netherway is currently a Non-Executive Director of TSXV-listed Elemental Altus Royalties Corporation. He also holds various private company directorships.

Wouter Pulinx

Non-Executive

Wouter Pulinx serves as a legal counsel in the Belgian office of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. overseeing legal operations in commercial offices in the AMEA area. He has over 8 years of tax, compliance and legal experience.
Previously Wouter has worked as a tax lawyer at DLA Piper LLP.

Amit Kamlesh Kumar Mehta

Non-Executive

Mr Amit Kamlesh Kumar Mehta is the Senior Manager in the Private Equity team at Oman Investment Authority (OIA), the Sovereign Wealth fund of Oman. He oversees the diversified investments strategy covering the Metals and Mining investments, Renewables and Energy Transition sector. He has over 14 years of Private Equity and Investment Banking experience working across the New York and Middle East regions. His position within OIA gives him commercial and corporate perspectives that will be of value to Kore Potash.