Mr. Link joined Sentient in 2008 as General Manager in the Firm's head office in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. He has over eighteen years offshore legal and accounting experience. Mr. Link is a director of Sentient companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands and acts as a director and principal of Cayman Trust Limited and Avalon Management Limited, Cayman Islands based companies licensed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority to carry on the business of a trust company and company management respectively.

Prior to joining Sentient and the aforementioned companies, Mr. Link practiced in the corporate and litigation departments of Quin & Hampson, a Cayman based law firm, before becoming CEO of Q&H Corporate Services, Ltd. in 2004. Mr. Link gained accounting experience whilst working with KPMG both in New Zealand and the Cayman Islands and as the Chief Financial Officer at Schroder Cayman Bank & Trust Company Limited.

Mr. Link has a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a bachelor of laws with honors degree from the University of Liverpool, England. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales and admitted as an Attorney in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands in 2000.

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Susan maintains Sentient's office management functions in the Firm's head office in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

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Nina is Sentient's Financial Controller, with responsibility for a wide range of Sentient finance and legal related matters in conjunction with the Chief Executive Officer.

Nina obtained a LLB Joint Honours in Law and Accountancy from the University of Edinburgh and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. She's gained extensive private equity experience over eight years with Coller Capital and more recently African Global Capital, a London based private equity joint venture focused on mining in Africa. Prior to this she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago and Deloitte & Touche in the UK for six years.

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Michal has worked with HVB Bank in Europe prior to coming to Australia. He undertakes the accounting for Sentient Group entities.

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Alice is an Irish qualified Chartered Accountant. She undertakes the accounting for the Sentient Funds, including assisting with investor reporting, capital calls and distributions and investor queries.

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Cherie is responsible for reception and office administration in Sentient's Sydney office.

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Johanna has a range of experience in business administration from her time prior to joining Sentient. She works in conjunction with Nicholas Mead out of Sentient's Montreal office as well as undertaking investment opportunity analysis.

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Rose manages Sentient's information systems and works closely with the CFO on investor calls, distributions and reporting. She has 25 years experience as a systems analyst and programmer.

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Seema has around 7 years of experience in the IT Industry, which includes Project Management, Business Analysis, Software Implementation and Software Design. She is an experienced developer using .NET and other Technologies. Previously she has worked with ERP Mobility and Software development companies.

In Sentient she is responsible for managing Sentient's internally developed ERP system, analysing business requirements and implementation of new Systems to handle Projects, Investments, Calls & Distributions and day to day Financials and other IT requirements.

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Tom worked with a leading developer of mobility solutions prior to joining Sentient where he is responsible for developing Sentient's website and mobile reporting applications as well as supporting the international integration of Sentient's computer network.

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Alan is responsible for the financial management of Sentient's investment subsidiary companies and governance policies.

Alan began his career in South Africa becoming Group Manager of the Johannesburg and Sydney audit practice for Deloitte specialising in the banking sector. Following migration to Australia he was CFO of Fuji International Finance (Australia) Limited (FIFA), a wholesale money market subsidiary of Japan's Fuji Bank Limited. He joined Macquarie Bank as CFO of Macquarie Direct Investments and the property subsidiary, Urban Pacific Limited where he was also responsible for compliance and supporting the Finance function for Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank-Macquarie Bank JV, ZonesCorp Infrastructure Fund. His roles included supervision of and liaison with investee company CFOs.

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Alex is responsible for the financial reporting of Sentient's investment subsidiary companies.

Alex graduated from the Catholic University of Argentina with an accounting major and completed an MBA and Master of Finance at Bond University in Australia. He is an Australian qualified CPA and Insolvency Practitioner.

Prior to migrating to Australia he was the financial manager with an Argentine logistics business and gained experience in corporate banking with Citibank in Buenos Aires. Following graduation from Bond University he was Operations and Finance Manager with an Australian registered Debt Agreement Administrator and the fund controller of the Abacus Property Group's AUD357 million investment property fund.

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Kane joined Sentient in 2010 to develop and implement Sentient’s socially responsible investment, risk management and corporate governance policies.

Prior to Sentient, Kane worked with the TSX-listed base-metals company, Ivernia, at their Magellan Lead Mine in Western Australia where he held the position of Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Manager. He had oversight of the approvals process to allow the mine to restart, and was responsible for managing the Successful Product Stewardship initiative for sealed handling and transport of lead concentrate. In 2010, Kane was appointed the Acting General Manager – Operations of the mine and was responsible for facilitating the restart of operations.

Before Magellan, Kane consulted to the mining and oil and gas industries both in Australia and overseas. In Papua New Guinea he undertook tasks for project and approvals management, community and regulatory liaison, coordination of field-work, and staff training.

Kane holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a Diploma of Modern Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of South Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australia Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and an affiliate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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