BACKGROUND: Mr. Alexander Beckmann serves as Managing Director of Agricola Consulting GmbH. Mr. Beckmann has 20 years' experience in applied mineralogy, mining, extraction/mineral processing, processing of non-iron metals, process engineering and optimization, cost reduction of existing processes and material science. He is in project involvements in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and is a consultant for mining and smelting companies in Asia and South America. He founded Agricola in 2001, invented and granted patents for new processes for copper, precious metals and PGEs at the end of the 1990s. He also invented new processes for the dearsenification of non iron concentrates. He has been Member of Advisory Board at Sunergy Inc., since August 2011.