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Directors & Management

Top industry experts in diamond, gold and base metals exploration and development with extensive experience in Tanzania

Savannah Diamonds is proud to have recruited a first class management team and board of directors - a highly experienced group with a solid track record in the field of mineral exploration and development.

Allan Dolan

Executive Chairman
Also Managing Director of Clarity Capital Management (part of the Clarity Group, Savannah’s largest investor), Allan has a particular focus on the minerals industry.

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Don Duncan

Chief Executive Officer
Having graduated as a geologist from the University of Aberdeen in 1975, Don spent twenty five years working for the Anglo American/De Beers Group.

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Greg Fernette

Vice President Exploration
Greg began his career in 1968 as a field assistant in Antarctica. Following his graduation in 1972, he has spent the last 35 years exploring for and developing a wide variety of mineral projects.

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Tom Pierce

Chief Financial Officer
As CFO of the Clarity group of companies, Tom is responsible for providing the overall financial oversight to companies in which Clarity invests.

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Jerry Garry

General Manager, Exploration
Jerry is a professional geologist with over 14 years of international metals and diamond exploration and mining experience. He has worked in Africa, Australia, of East Asia assuming roles of increasing responsibility.

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Dr Alex Dak

Laboratory / Special Projects Manager
Alex is a geologist and mineralogist with more than ten years' kimberlite research experience in Russia. In addition he has extensive diamond exploration experience in Angola, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone.

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Aspon Mwijage

Field Manager
As Savannah's field manager in Tanzania, Aspon is a geologist with a background of more than 15 years' diamond exploration in Tanzania.

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Barry Hawthorne

Non-Executive Director
Barry is a recipient of the prestigious Draper Medal from the Geological Society of South Africa in recognition of his significant contribution to the scientific understanding of kimberlites and the Upper Mantle processes which all

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Richard Wake-Walker

Non-Executive Director
Richard spent over twenty years in diamond buying and sales with De Beers, his career with them culminating in General Director of the De Beers Moscow office.

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Alhussein Dhanani

Alhussein is a successful Tanzanian businessman with extensive experience in the country's mining sector. His insight into policy and legislative changes and his knowledge of movements within the local business community is particularly welcomed.

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Feisal Somji

Feisal has ten years of Canadian diamond exploration experience. Over a period of five years he spent significant time in Tanzania and put together the framework for Savannah's current land package in conjunction with Alhussein Dhanani, also a director of

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Ron Palmer

Geophysical & Diamond Exploration Consultant
Following postgraduate study in his native Sweden, Ron moved to Australia in the early 1990's, when he specialised in the design and management of airborne geophysical surveys.

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