Brian Gilbertson has extensive experience in the global natural resources industry. He has held senior positions in many leading companies including as Managing Director of Rustenburg Platinum, Chief Executive of Gencor Limited, BHP Billiton and Vedanta Resources. In 2004 he founded Incwala Resources, a pioneering Black Economic Empowerment corporation in South Africa, and was its first chairman until March 2006. In 2004, Mr Gilbertson joined SUAL, an aluminium producer in Russia and led the company into the US$30 billion merger with RUSAL and the alumina assets of Glencore, creating the largest aluminium company in the world. Mr Gilbertson is the Chairman of The Pallinghurst Group, Gemfields, Jupiter and Sedibelo Platinum Mines.

Arne Frandsen has over ten years’ of investment banking experience with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, providing strategic advice and structuring mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance transactions for clients in 30 different countries, raising in excess of US$20 billion of capital. In 2005, he left investment banking in order to become the Chief Executive Officer of Incwala Resources, one of South Africa’s leading Black Economic Empowerment mining companies. Mr Frandsen joined The Pallinghurst Group in 2006 and is a Managing Partner.

Andrew Willis has over 15 years’ experience in international finance, structuring and private equity. He started his professional career as an accountant in New Zealand and after moving to Europe spent three years with pan-European private equity investment manager Candover Investments. He studied at INSEAD and was awarded an MBA before joining The Pallinghurst Group in 2006 and is a Managing Partner.