Management
Michael Minosora
Chairman
Michael has extensive experience in both the professional services sector (as a senior partner in EY) and the resources sector including as CFO of Woodside Petroleum Limited and Fortescue Metals Group Limited. He has also been Chairman of ASX listed company Atlantic Limited and a founder of Bauxite De Kimbo Limited which developed the 10Mtpa Kimbo bauxite project in Guinea.
He is Chairman of Seabourn Capital Pty Ltd and TerraWise Pty Ltd
Michael Mulvey
Executive Director / Chief Operating Officer
Michael brings over 15 years of operating and project management experience across soft and hard commodity-based businesses in West Africa, including precious metals, timber, palm oil, and renewables. Prior to Siguiri Gold, Michael was the Director of Operations for IPA Forestry’s Angola subsidiary. He was also the Founder of Peak Palm Oil, a palm oil producer and integrated marketer of related machinery and equipment. He founded Société Peak Mali, that helped secure, develop, and transition several mining concessions, before moving into Guinea to set up and establish operations.
Henry Heeney
Non-Executive Director
Henry is the co-founder and CIO of Heeney Capital and recently served as a senior investment professional at a $4bn global investment fund based out of Manhattan. Previously, he was an Investment Banker with Evercore Partners in their M&A practice focused on Financial Sponsors and with Bank of Montreal in their Metals & Mining group.
Henry holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a Finance specialisation from the University of British Columbia and co-founded a Spanish real estate investment fund.
Sean Pi
Non-Executive Director
Sean Pi is a co-founder at Heeney Capital and Non-Executive Director at Mayfair Gold. Prior to Heeney Capital, Mr. Pi was a senior investment professional at a NY based physical commodity trading and investing firm, where he helped run its Special Situations and Principal Investing practices.
Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst with Evercore Partners where he worked on Diversified Industrials and Consumer related mergers and acquisitions transactions, advising on over $15bn in transaction volume. Sean earned his A.B. in Economics at Princeton University.
MARTIN SMITH
Non-Executive Director
Martin is a qualified mechatronics engineer and experienced project manager with over 30 years of experience. He has extensive experience in the mining industry, with onsite project management, project engineering, equipment design experience, and management of scoping through to definitive feasibility studies.
Andrey KULYNYCH-Rinta
VP Exploration
Andrey is the VP Exploration at Siguiri Gold. Previously Andrey served at Kinross for 10 years working in the Russian arctic and has evaluated over 100 potential M&A targets across North & South America, Africa and Eastern Europe.
He has an (H)B.Sc. in Geology and Earth Sciences from Laurentian University and has worked in teams that carried out field work, mapping, geochemical data analysis and alteration models, 3D geological models, and initial resource estimates