– UK – Hummingbird Resources plc (AIM: HUM), the multi-project gold company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Russell King as Non-Executive Chairman with immediate effect. Mr King will replace Ian Cockerill who retired at the conclusion of the AGM and joined the Company’s Technical Advisory Committee (“TAC”).
Mr King is currently the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Aggreko plc, the FTSE 100 temporary power generation company. Prior to this, Mr King served as Chief Strategy Officer at Anglo American where he had global responsibility for strategy, business development, government relations, safety and sustainable development. He was also a member of Anglo American’s plc executive committee for eight years. Between 2010 and 2013 he was a senior advisor to RBC Capital Markets on Metals and Mining. Mr King is also a Non-Executive Director of Interserve plc, Sepura plc and Spectris plc.
Ian Cockerill will remain an adviser to Hummingbird Resources and in this capacity has been appointed to the Company’s TAC. The TAC was established to provide high-level technical guidance to the Company to ensure that its projects are progressed in the most economically advantageous and efficient manner possible.
Dan Betts, CEO of Hummingbird Resources, said: “I am delighted to welcome someone of Russell’s calibre to the Board. He is highly respected across the sector and his in-depth global industry experience will be an enormous asset to Hummingbird as we look to commence construction at our Yanfolila Project early next year, and to help strategically evaluate the best ways to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the current market.
On behalf of the Board, I would like to once again express my thanks to Ian for his wise counsel as Chairman over the past five years. I am delighted he has agreed to join our Technical Advisory Committee where we will continue to benefit from his support and experience moving forward.”
About Hummingbird Resources Plc
Founded in late 2005, Hummingbird Resources is a West African gold explorer and developer (AIM:HUM), which listed on AIM in December 2010 with a maiden N143-101 compliant Resource of 0.8Moz gold in Liberia. Since IPO the Company has significantly grown its initial resource to 4.2Moz at its Dugbe 1 Project in Liberia, West Africa. In July 2014 Hummingbird Resources acquired all of Gold Fields’ gold assets in Mali, including the 1.8Moz Yanfolila Project. Hummingbird is now a multi-project, near-term producer with 6Moz of gold and 5,000 km2 of exploration ground.
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