Three of the four new Directors:
Officers & Directors
Philip K.R. Pascall Chairman, CEO and Director
Mr. Pascall graduated from Sussex University in England with an honours degree in Control Engineering, and later completed an MBA at the University of Capetown. He worked in general management positions in South Africa from 1973; and in the Mining industry there from 1977 with RTZ, and E.L. Bateman, and since 1981, in Australia. He was the Project Manager of the Argyle Diamond Project and then, he was Executive Chairman and part owner of Nedpac Engineering between 1982 and 1990. During this time, Mr. Pascall was involved in a wide variety of mineral projects in Australia, New Zealand, S.E. Asia, Chile, the United States, and Zimbabwe. After selling his share of Nedpac in 1990, he was a consultant in the mining industry, including a period with Rio Tinto's Hamersley Iron, and with various projects in Zimbabwe and Zambia. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 1996.
Clive Newall President and Director
Mr. Newall graduated from the Royal School of Mines, University of London, England in 1971 with an honours degree in Mining Geology, and was awarded an MBA from the Scottish Business School at Strathclyde University. He has worked in mining and exploration throughout his career, having held senior management positions with Amax Exploration Inc. and the Robertson Group plc. Mr. Newall was a founder and has been President and Director of First Quantum Minerals Ltd since its start up in 1996. He is also a non-executive director of Gemfields Plc and Baker Steel Resource Trust Limited.
Martin R. Rowley Executive Director Business Development and a Director
Mr. Rowley graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1975.After starting his career as an accountant working in both Australia and England he worked as executive assistant to the Board of Directors of a large Australian public company from 1980 to 1984. He then established his own resource consulting and investment company and was involved as a shareholder, Director and Chairman of a number of Australian public resource companies before co-founding First Quantum Minerals Ltd in 1996. Mr. Rowley served as First Quantum's CFO and as a Director until January 2007, when he assumed the role of Executive Director, Business Development. He is also non-executive Chairman and a director of Forsys Metals Corp, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company in the uranium sector and Lithium One Inc, an emerging Canadian listed lithium company.
