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Monday, February 17, 2014 4:51:33 PM
Ted has a good reputation in big circles and I mean Big Circles Globally.
Nicolaas Edward "Ted" Blom, President & Chief Executive
Mr. Blom has over 25 years of experience in mining and energy, with expertise in structured finance, commercial and legal transactions and business development. He holds Bachelors of Commerce and Bachelors of Jurisprudence degrees from the University of Port Elizabeth (n/k/a Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), a Masters of Business Administration degree from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and Republic of South Africa and is a Chartered Secretary of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, London. Mr. Blom also completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development and a Diploma in Mineral Economics from Imperial College, London. Mr. Blom is a member of the Association of Mining Analysts in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Blom’s business experience includes strategic advisor and consultant to global hedge funds and private equity funds on investments in energy and mineral plays. His testimony at the relevant national regulator as an expert independent Expert in mining and energy resulted in numerous television, radio and press interviews. Mr. Blom is currently mandated to execute capital raising, structuring and implementation of projects in Africa exceeding $20 billion. Mr. Blom has consulted and explored projects and proposals involving most minerals found on the African Continent, including Gold, Nickel, Silver, Platinum, Manganese, Aluminum, Coal, Graphite, Diamonds, Titanium and Chromium. He has also been involved with assessments of industrial minerals.
In recent years, Mr. Blom assessed that Southern Africa would require more than 20 new coal mining projects in order to avoid another energy Blackout in the region. This number has since been confirmed by the regulators, with little progress. Mr. Blom also conducted initial feasibilities on Coal – Bed Methane (CBM) and Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) projects on a large scale to complement the current energy mix in Sothern Africa. This has the potential to generate an additional 20GW of electricity within a 24-30 month horizon, provided legislators approve. As a strategic advisor to Eskom, Mr. Blom identified and highlighted significant opportunities for savings in capital expenditures in the billions of dollars. He has conducted numerous successful global transactions as a strategic advisor to a South African merchant bank, capital raising for a new technology project in the commodities coal sector, and capital raising for mining and energy projects including Black Wattle Colliery, and a major new Platinum & Palladium project in Africa. In addition Mr. Blom often facilitates commercial transactions between Commodity buyers and sellers.
Mr. Blom was a co-founder of Kwezi Mining Company, a junior coal mining company which subsequently became Rio Tinto's development arm for major transactions in Southern Africa. Mr. Blom served on the Board of Directors of Kwezi Coal Ltd., as well as Kwezi Mining Ltd. Mr. Blom was also an independent advisor to Eurocoal, another junior coal miner. While at Eurocoal, Mr. Blom was instrumental in doubling pre-tax profits, with a resulting significant increase in market value. Previously, Mr. Blom conducted and participated in numerous global proposals, evaluations and exercises, including capital raising material and strategic communications to transform and propel General Mining Ltd into the world's largest listed mining house, BHP Billiton.
He also initiated, strategized and implemented a contractual clean-up which released millions of dollars to facilitate the turnaround of Tran-Natal Coal Corporation from loss making to a profitable division of General Mining Ltd.
Mr. Blom has been awarded numerous bursaries and awards for excellence that paved the way to continuing education, the most recent being an Eskom Award & Prize in 2008. He was appointed Judge for Africa Energy Awards 2009 and Chairman for African Mining Congress 2010. Mr. Blom has been invited to Judge the Africa Energy Awards in 2012. In his spare time Mr. Blom lectures globally on the accelerated “MBA in Mining” series and has been booked for 19 lectures all over the Globe for 2012.
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