– UK, St Helier – Centamin PLC (LON: CEY / TSX: CEE) today announced the appointment of Hoda Mansour and lman Naguib to its Board as Independent Non-Executive Directors, with immediate effect.
“It is with great pleasure that I welcome Hoda and Iman as members of the Centamin Board. Hoda brings a wealth of experience to the Board and her extensive knowledge of the region will be of great value to Centamin. Iman, equally, brings extensive experience across all aspects of corporate finance, asset management and M&A within both emerging and developed markets, and will be a true asset to the Company as we move into our next phase of growth,” said Board chair, Jim Rutherford.
Iman Naguib will join the Audit and Risk Committee while Hoda Mansour will serve on the Sustainability Committee.
The company also announced that Dr. Ibrahim Fawzy will not stand for re-election at the upcoming AGM.
About Hoda Mansour
Hoda Mansour has 25 years of experience working in leading multinational software and technology companies including Oracle, Microsoft, Acision, SAP, and most recently IFS.
In 2023, she joined IFS, a global cloud-based enterprise software and solutions company, as COO for Asia Pacific, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa. For the previous 10 years, Hoda Mansour worked at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, where she held several country head and leadership roles before becoming SVP and Head of Business Process Transformation for the Southern Europe and Middle East and Africa regions in 2021.
Since 2021, Hoda Mansour has served as a Board Director at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and between 2020 and 2022 was VP of the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
Hoda currently serves as a non-executive director on the Board of the Commercial International Bank (CIB), the leading private-sector bank in Egypt.
Hoda Mansour said: “I am very much looking forward to joining the Centamin Board and working with the management team. I am excited to be joining a Company that is not only helping to build a key growth industry within Egypt, but is generating multiple benefits for its people, whether that is through direct employment, the promotion of women or the development of sustainable practices.”
About lman Naguib
Iman has over 20 years of expertise in finance and investment management, across the mining, telecoms, and financial services sectors, within both emerging and developed markets. She brings to Centamin extensive experience in corporate finance and restructuring, investment and asset management, liquidity management, and mergers and acquisitions.
Iman is a partner at Karnak Capital, an investment management vehicle she founded in 2015. Before that, between 2012 and 2015, Iman was Group CFO at La Mancha Resources, a gold mining company with operating mines, and exploration and development projects across Africa, Australia, and Argentina.
Before joining La Mancha, Iman was Co-Founder and Director of Accelero Capital, an investment management group focused on telecommunications. She also served as Corporate Finance Director at Orascom Telecom Holding and Weather Investments, an international telecoms group operating networks in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Iman Naguib, commented: “I am delighted to be joining Centamin at this stage in the Company’s growth journey. The Company has built a reputation in the region for being a leader in the sector through its development of the Sukari asset into a world-class mine, and I am really looking forward to working with the Board and management team to further build on this strong platform in the years ahead.”
About Centamin
Centamin is an established gold producer, with premium listings on the London Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange. The Company’s flagship asset is the Sukari Gold Mine, Egypt’s largest and first modern gold mine, as well as one of the world’s largest producing mines. Since production began in 2009 Sukari has produced over 5 million ounces of gold, and today has a projected mine life to 2035.
Through its large portfolio of exploration assets in Egypt and West Africa, Centamin is advancing an active pipeline of future growth prospects, including the Doropo project in Côte d’Ivoire, and over 3,000km2 of highly prospective exploration ground in Egypt’s Arabian Nubian Shield.
Centamin practices responsible mining activities, recognizing its responsibility to deliver operational and financial performance and create lasting mutual benefit for all stakeholders through good corporate citizenship.
SOURCE: https://www.centamin.com/
- Disclaimer - News, data, and statements included in this release are intended exclusively for general information purposes. Talent4Boards does not guarantee that news is accurate or about the correct person and accepts neither liability for the consequences of the reader’s reliance, nor responsibility for the accuracy of the information. Nothing in this release should be considered for decisions about referred securities. Products and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.