Appointment of Director

RNS Number : 0337T

Sylvania Platinum Limited

30 November 2011

 



Sylvania Platinum Limited

("Sylvania Platinum", "Sylvania" or the "Company")

(ASX: SLP, AIM: SLP)

Appointment of Roger Williams as Non-Executive Director

Sylvania Platinum Limited ("Sylvania"), the low cost Platinum Group Metal ("PGM") processor and developer, is pleased to announce the proposed appointment of Mr Roger Alyn Williams (48), a UK citizen based in South Africa, as a Non-Executive Director. The appointment is to be ratified at the next Annual General Meeting to be held on 29 December 2011.  It is also proposed that Mr Williams be appointed the senior Independent Director and to chair the Audit and Remuneration Committees.

Mr Williams is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' international experience in mining finance. After graduating from the University of Southampton with an honours degree in French and Spanish, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross and joined the finance department of Carlton Paper. In 1997 he joined Randgold Resources, working on its London Stock Exchange listing and later its secondary listing on NASDAQ, and was appointed Group Finance Director in 2002. He was subsequently part of the management team that oversaw its expansion, raising debt finance, managing its treasury operations and assisting on M&A and new business.

Mr Williams went on to become Chief Financial Officer of JSE-listed AECI Limited and then moved to BSG Resources Limited, a private company, both involved in the mining industry. He is currently a director of African Mining & Exploration plc (AIM: AME), a gold exploration company operating in West Africa and Shaft Sinkers Holdings plc (LSE: SHFT) which specialises in the sinking of particularly deep and wide vertical and decline shafts and the development of underground infrastructure. 

Subject to the AGM approving Mr Williams' appointment and the establishment of the Sylvania Option Plan, it is proposed that he be granted 500,000 options in Sylvania.  The terms of the Sylvania Option Plan are summarised in the Explanatory Memorandum attached to the Notice of AGM.

Terry McConnachie, CEO, commented: "Following our corporate and operational restructuring over the last twenty four months we are delighted to appoint Roger Williams to the Board. With record production figures of low cost PGM product from our tailings operations, Roger will enable us to strengthen our corporate credentials to underpin Sylvania's growth. By adopting a move towards a best practice independent board structure we look forward to establishing a solid base for the Company's expansion of low cost, low power, metals production on the Bushveld complex of South Africa over the next few years."

Mr Williams' current and previous directorships within the last 5 years are as follows:

Current Directorships	Past Directorships
African Mining & Exploration plc (UK)	BSG Resources Limited subsidiaries
Shaft Sinkers Holdings plc (Isle of Man)	Baku  Steel Company Limited (Isle of Man)
Unicastle Limited (Cyprus)	Feni Industries AD Macedonia
Wilbrist Property Holdings Limited (Anguilla)	Newco Ferronikeli LLC Kosovo
	Bateman Engineering NV (NL)
	Bateman Litwin NV (NL)
	Litwin Europe Middle East and Africa BV (NL)
	Aventall International Inc (BVI)
	Bateman Litwin (UK) Ltd
	AECI Limited and subsidiaries
	AECI Limited (South Africa)
	Chemical Services Ltd (South Africa)
	African Explosives Limited (South Africa)
	Heartland Properties Ltd (South Africa)
	Heartland Leasing Ltd (South Africa)
	AECI Captive Insurance Company (South Africa)
	Kynoch (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
	Kynochem (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
	Packaging Coatings SA (South Africa)
	AEL Holdco Limited (South Africa)
	AEL Mining Services Limited (South Africa)
	Chemrisk Services (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
	Sans Fibres (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
	Aeci Shelfco No 1 (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
	Randgold Resources Limited and subsidiaries
	Randgold Resources Limited (Jersey)
	Societe des mines de Morila SA (Mali)
	Societe des mines de Loulo SA (Mali)
	West African Gold Exploration SA (Mali)

There are no other details which require to be disclosed in accordance with Rule 17 and paragraph (g) Schedule Two of the AIM Rules.

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For further information please contact: 

South Africa Terence McConnachie (CEO)  Sylvania Platinum Limited [phone] Louis Carroll (FD/Joint Company Secretary) Sylvania Platinum Limited [phone]	Australia Richard Rossiter (Chairman) Sylvania Platinum Limited [phone] Grant Button (Director/Joint Company Secretary) Sylvania Platinum Limited [phone]
United Kingdom Nominated Adviser Ambrian Partners Limited Anthony Rowland [phone] Broker RBC Europe Limited Martin Eales/James Kelly [phone]	Communications Laurence Read/Beth Harris Threadneedle Communications [phone]

 

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