Gregory Kinross - President
Mr. Kinross has been President of CIC Energy since its inception in 2005. Mr. Kinross is also currently the President and CEO of Tau Capital Corp., the founder of CIC Energy. Mr. Kinross was Executive Vice-President, Business Development of Tau Capital Corp. from 2005 to 2007. From 1998 to 2004 he was involved in private equity and investment banking. Prior to 1998, Mr. Kinross spent three years as a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, South Africa. Mr. Kinross, a Chartered Accountant, received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (With Distinction) as well as a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree (With Distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Mr. Kinross currently serves as a director of Talon Metals Corp., a TSX listed company.
Warren Newfield - CEO & Co-Chairman
Mr. Newfield has been Chief Executive Officer of CIC Energy since late 2007. He is the founder of CIC Energy and has served as Co-Chairman since its inception. Mr. Newfield is the founder and Chairman of Tau Capital Corp., a private investment and advisory services company. Mr. Newfield was a co-founder, past President and director of AfriOre Limited. In 2007 this TSX-listed company was sold to Lonmin plc for C$500 million. From 1997 to 2000 he was a director and VP Corporate Development of Platexco Inc. until the company was acquired for C$191 million by Impala Platinum. Mr. Newfield is a director and co-founder of TSX-listed Talon Metals Corp.
Tore Horvei - COO
Mr. Horvei has been the Chief Operating Officer of CIC Energy since January 2007. For ten years prior to this he was the Chief Executive of SAD-ELEC, the South African energy consulting firm CIC Energy acquired in 2006. Prior to this Mr. Horvei was with Norconsult International, a Norwegian energy sector consulting and advisory group. Mr. Horvei has twenty years of experience covering energy market analysis and demand forecasting, economic and financial analysis of energy projects, tariffs and energy pricing issues, energy industry restructuring, development of legal and regulatory frameworks, and project development and management. Mr. Horvei is an economist by training and holds M.Sc. (Business) from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
Craig McLeary - CFO
Mr. McLeary, a Chartered Accountant, has 17 years of accounting and finance expertise, including most recently as Group Financial Manager at Sappi Limited, a global leader in the pulp and paper industry headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. McLeary was a member of the Audit and Accounting Task Group of the King Committee on Corporate Governance (King II) in South Africa. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche, South Africa and received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Natal University, as well as a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honours) from the University of South Africa.
Edward G. Scholtz - CEO of Bon-Terra Mining*
Mr. Scholtz has over 35 years of mine management experience with BHP Billiton where he held a variety of positions including Managing Director of Ingwe Collieries, BHP Billiton's wholly-owned South African coal business, now known as BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa. In this role Mr. Scholtz oversaw one of the largest coal businesses in the world producing 80 million tons per annum. Mr. Scholtz has undertaken management development studies at London Business School, University of South Africa (UNISA), and University of Cape Town’s Graduate Business School.
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Gibbs Johnson - General Counsel
Mr. Johnson spent eight years with Clifford Chance, based in Europe and North America, culminating in the position of Senior Associate in the Energy and Infrastructure Group based in Paris, France. Mr. Johnson holds a Masters in International Business from the University of South Carolina and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Jennifer Feinberg - Executive Vice President, Project Finance
Ms. Feinberg, prior to joining CIC Energy, held the position of Director – Investment Banking with NM Rothschild and Sons in South Africa. Her past experience includes Head of Corporate Finance for the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited and Head: Structured Finance with Corpcapital Bank Limited. Ms. Feinberg holds a B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Witwatersrand, a B.Comm. from the University of South Africa and an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand Business School.
Anton Reiche - Executive Vice President, Project Implementation
Mr. Reiche has close to 30 years experience in industrial mega-project construction and project management both in southern Africa and internationally, and has previously been involved in power plant, petro-chemical plant, mineral processing plant and coal handling project implementation. Most recently, in a career spanning 14 years with Murray & Roberts, a leading South African project implementer, he was responsible for, amongst other things, the construction management of the internationally renowned Mozal Aluminium Smelter Project (Murray & Roberts in joint venture with SNC-Lavalin of Canada, 1998-2003) and later was the project director responsible for construction of the Vaal River Eastern Sub-system Augmentation Project, a strategic water supply system and the largest contract of its type undertaken in southern Africa. Mr. Reiche holds engineering qualifications from the Witwatersrand University of Technology and the Cape Town University of Technology and is a professional associate of the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions.
Pieter du Toit, Executive Vice President, Coal-to-Hydrocarbons
Dr. du Toit brings over 30 years of international petrochemical engineering experience, including as Projects Portfolio Manager, Project Management department at Sasol Technology, a division of Sasol. He also worked as Project Director for Saudi International Petrochemical Company, and for petrochemical engineering companies in Japan and South Africa. Dr. du Toit holds a Ph.D. Management of Engineering and Technology from Southern California University, a M.Sc. Construction Engineering and Project Management from the University of Texas and a B.Sc. Civil Engineering from Worchester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Susan Myburgh, Financial Director
Ms. Myburgh served as Chief Financial Officer of CIC Energy from its inception until December 2007. From 2004 until January 2008, Ms. Myburgh was the Chief Financial Officer of AfriOre Limited. From 1997 to 2004 she served as the Administrative and Financial Manager of AfriOre Limited and its subsidiaries.
