ANGLO ASIAN MINING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice President / Azerbaijan International Mining Company
Dr Stephen Westhead is a geologist with over 31 years of experience and joined AIMC in April 2016. Stephen has worked in India, CIS, Eastern Europe and Russia. Previously, he was Technical Advisor to the Managing Director of Polyus Gold's main business unit. Stephen has project management expertise from exploration to construction and production. He earned a PhD in structural controls on mineralisation, a MSc in Mineral Exploration and Mining Geology and a BSc in Applied Geology. He is a Chartered Geologist, Fellow of The Geological Society, a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of Society of Economic Geologists and Member of the Institute of Directors holding a Diploma in Company Direction. Stephen is the former AIMC Director of Geology and Mining.
Job Titles:
- Vice President Technical Services / Azerbaijan International Mining Company Limited
Farhang Hedjazi oversees all mining and exploration activities. He joined AIMC in July 2008 as project manager, overseeing the design and construction of the Gedabek mine, comprising the heap leaching and SART facilities. He served as technical advisor to the President from 2009 to 2011 when he was appointed as Vice President Technical Services. He has worked for the National Iranian lead and zinc company as chief process engineer from 1986 to 1989. He then founded Kahanroba engineering company. He has designed and constructed several zinc smelters, gold CIL plants, gold heap leach facilities and has managed underground mining facilities. He has an M.Sc. degree in non-ferrous extractive metallurgy, and has worked in this field since 1985.
Governor John Sununu received a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught engineering at Tufts University for 16 years. He served three terms as the Governor of New Hampshire before President George H W Bush appointed him chief of staff in 1989, a position that he held until March 1992. After his tenure as chief of staff, he co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, ran an engineering firm and then, in 2004, served as the visiting Roy M and Barbara Goodman family professor of practice in public service at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. John is a former partner in Trinity International Partners, a private financial firm, and currently serves as president of JHS Associates Ltd.
Emeritus professor John Monhemius held the Roy Wright Chair in mineral and environmental engineering at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London until 2004, when he retired from full-time academic work. From 2000 to 2004, he was dean of the Royal School of Mines. He has more than 40 years of experience of academic and industrial research and development in hydrometallurgy and environmental control in mining and metallurgical processes, particularly in the management of toxic wastes and effluents, and he has acted as a consultant to many large mining and chemical companies. John has published over 130 papers of scientific literature and he has supervised more than 30 PhD students. From 1986 to 1996, he was a co-founder and director of Consort Research Ltd, a consultancy specialising in gold and base metal ore processing, and he is a former director of Obtala Resources plc.
Khosrow Zamani was director of the southern Europe and central Asia department of the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank, from March 2000 to July 2005. He was responsible for the IFC investment programme and strategy in 15 countries across the region. Whilst a director at IFC, Khosrow was instrumental in building the IFC investment portfolio in the region with several new initiatives, particularly in central Asia and Caucasia. He oversaw the IFC portfolio of more than $2 billion, diversified across the financial, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing sectors. Khosrow has over 30 years of experience in investment and project finance and banking in emerging markets. He holds an MSc in Engineering from the United States of America and a master of business operations and management from the United Kingdom. He was formerly a non-executive board member and chairman of the corporate governance committee of Sekerbank A.S., a publicly listed commercial bank in Turkey, and a non-executive board member and a member of the compensation committee of Komercijalna Bank, Serbia.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Manager of Sununu Enterprises LLC
- Non - Executive Director, Date of Birth 21 / 10 / 1967
Michael Sununu has a B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from The Kellogg School at Northwestern University majoring in finance and accounting. He brings a wealth of financial and directorial experience to the team. Michael has worked for JP Morgan's Oil and Mining group and his experience there included debt restructuring and the Initial Public Offering for Consol Energy. He has managed trust funds throughout his successful career, including Hudson Seven LLC, where he was a founder. His work has included developing supply, demand and pricing models for several weather influenced commodities.
Currently, Michael is a founder and manager of Sununu Enterprises LLC and Sununu Holdings LLC, which specialise in planning and project development for major corporations and medium-sized firms, as well as providing strategic advisory services. Michael also presently serves as a Board Member for Purpose Energy Inc. and as a member of the Investment Committee for the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Job Titles:
- President and Chief Executive, Date of Birth 24 / 04 / 1953
Reza Vaziri has been actively involved in business in the Republic of Azerbaijan since just after its independence. Since R.V. Investment Group Services LLC, now Anglo Asian's subsidiary, signed a Production Sharing Agreement with the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Reza has been focused on developing Anglo Asian Mining PLC into a significant gold producer in the Caucasia and central Asia region. Prior to his business career, Reza held a number of high-ranking positions in the pre-revolutionary Iranian government. He was the head of the Foreign Relations Office at the Ministry of the Imperial Court of Iran. At the time of the revolution, he was chief of the office of political and international affairs. Reza holds a law degree from the national university of Iran. As founder and co-chairman for life of the board of directors of the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce with James A Baker IV, Reza dedicates much of his time furthering business relations between the two countries. Reza serves alongside such directors as James Baker III, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Governor John Sununu and Henry Kissinger. Reza resides in Baku, London and Washington, DC.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Chief Financial Officer
Bill Morgan is a UK chartered accountant with over 30 years accountancy and financial management experience. He has worked in the UK, the Far East, Kazakhstan and Russia. Previously, he was regional financial officer for the Kinross Russia region based in Magadan, Russia. Between 2006 and 2012 was CFO of Hambledon Mining PLC, an AIM listed gold mining company, and was based in Kazakhstan. He has been instrumental in several successful start-ups and restructuring of companies in the telecoms and mining industries. Bill speaks Russian.