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Bill is a geologist with 35 years’ experience in diamond exploration and mining, including 32 years with Anglo American and De Beers and eight years as head of De Beers global exploration activities. Bill was directly involved in the discovery and development of four new diamond mines in southern Africa and participated in a number of kimberlite resource sampling and evaluation projects and mine feasibility studies in Africa, North and South America, Europe and Australia.

Bill served as a director of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited from 2002 to 2006 and as Chairman and/or director of a number of other De Beers Group and associate companies during his career. Since retiring from De Beers in 2006, Bill pursued personal interests before commencing private diamond industry consulting work in early 2009. Bill joined Snowden in September 2009 and since then has directed a number of independent technical reviews and Competent Persons’ Reports for a number of diamond and other commodity projects.

Matthew Jarvis is a Principal Consultant with Snowden, based in Johannesburg.

He is a mining engineer who headed up the Treasury and Corporate Finance function under the restructured South African Energy Coal business for South32. In addition to establishing the Treasury function, he was responsible for managing ongoing market and credit risk activities associated with commodity trading and other commercial activities, as well as leading the Business Evaluation team in Johannesburg. This team oversaw investment analysis and the review of major regional projects, business planning outcomes, commercial opportunities and overall regional portfolio management across Southern Africa.

Matt is Executive Consultant at the Snowden Group, a global mining consulting company.

Matt has +35 years experience in most major commodities, across the value chain, and in many countries. He built on a solid background in gold and platinum with stints on the South African Gold Mines, in rock engineering research, as an analyst on the JSE, and in running his own consulting company, to a 16 year career with BHP, and latterly back to independent consulting.

Prior to BHP Matt was Mineral Resource Manager for Randgold Resources, based in Mali, was Consulting Geologist (Mines) for Rand Mines, was CEO of a Minerals Consulting Company, a Mining Analyst on the JSE, a Mine Geologist and an Exploration Geologist.

Matt has led or participated in numerous acquisition and divestment studies, across gold, PGM’s, base metals, and bulk minerals.

Matt is a Competent Person/Competent Valuator in most major commodities and has worked on projects and operations throughout the globe.