George Bennett

CEO

About

With over 25 years’ experience in mining, finance and management, George has led a number of mining companies, including Shanta Gold Ltd (which he successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005) and Orecorp Ltd (which he seed funded, raised the initial capital as a non-executive director and listed on the ASX). In 2006, George established MDM Engineering Ltd, a mining engineering company building mineral process plants and mining infrastructure throughout Africa, which he successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2008. In 2014, George was instrumental in selling the business to Foster Wheeler Limited. In addition, George has been a partner and director with a number of leading financial, stockbroking and corporate advisory businesses including Fergusson Bros, Simpson McKie, and HSBC Securities Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Country

South Africa

City

City of Johannesburg

Industry

Mining & Metals

Skill

Experience

CEO

Rainbow Rare Earths Limited

2019-8 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

Chief Executive Officer

Karo Power (Private) Limited

2018-7 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

Johannesburg and Harare

CEO

MDM Engineering Ltd.

2006-2 - 2017-3 · 11 yrs 2 mos

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was the founding partner and CEO of MDM Engineering Ltd in February 2006. I successfully IPO'd MDM on the London Stock Exchange in 2008 after raising US$ 10 mln. In October I completed the sale of MDM to AmecFosterWheeler a global engineering company for US$ 120 million.

Chief Executive Officer

Shanta Gold Limited

2003-7 - 2006-2 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Tanzania

As CEO of Shanta Gold , a Tanzanian gold exploration company from July 2003, I successfully IPO'd Shanta Gold on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 raising the capital to fund the development of Shanta's exploration assets. Today Shanta has 2 x operating gold mines in Tanzania.

Director

HSBC

1992-6 - 2003-3 · 10 yrs 10 mos

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was a partner of Simpson McKie Inc. in Johannesburg from 1992. In 1998 we successfully sold Simpson McKie to HSBC Banking Corporation. I held various senior trading roles i.e. Head of International Trading and Arbitrage , Head of Principle Trading, Head of Mining Research Sales , before my resignation in 2003. Before Simpson McKie I was a partner at Fergusson Bros. one of the top ranked stock broker firms on the J.S.E. My broking and investment banking career expanded over an 18 year period.