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The Sentient Council
Acting in an advisory role to The Sentient Group is the Sentient Council. The Council
members bring to Sentient experience and knowledge spanning the diversity of the
natural resource industries and from having reached positions at the pinnacle of
their industries. They also increase Sentient’s access to global dealflow for the
Fund through their extended networks.
Charles DiBona – Chairman
(Great Falls, Va., USA)
Charles J. DiBona was President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute for
19 years. He is an Honorary Director for life.
Charles earlier served in the White House as Special Consultant on Energy to the
President of the U.S.A. and from 1967 to 1973 was President and CEO of the Center
for Naval Analyses, a federally funded research and development center.
Mr. DiBona is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Oxford University
where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He served 11 years in the Navy.
Charles has served on the boards of listed companies and a number of not-for-profit
institutions.
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Campbell Anderson (Sydney, Australia)
Campbell Anderson has over 30 years experience in the resources industry. He consecutively
worked in various positions in five different resource companies, becoming Managing
Director/Chief Executive of each, namely Reef Oil NL, Basin Oil NL, Burmah Oil plc,
Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd and North Ltd.
Campbell was a Council Member of the Business Council of Australia and was President
of the Council between 1998-2000. He has also served at various times as President
of the Minerals Council of Australia, NSW Chamber of Mines, Australian Mines and
Metals Association and the Australia-Japan Society of Australia (Vic).
Campbell is presently on the boards of a number of listed entities as well as not-for-profit
organisations.
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Alex Balogh (Toronto, Canada)
Alex Balogh, a metallurgical engineer, has more than 40 years of experience in the
mining and metallurgical industry. He has been Chairman and CEO of Falconbridge
Ltd., Deputy Chairman of Noranda Inc. and CEO of Noranda Minerals Inc.
Alex has served as Chairman, International Council on Metals and the Environment
(ICME), Chairman, Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutes, Director, Mining
Association of Canada, and as a member of other not for profit national and international
organizations.
Alex has at various times sat on the board of Directors of fifteen listed companies.
He is currently on the boards of Cambior Inc., Brookfield Power Inc., and is Chairman
of Canada's National Advisory Board on Mining and Metals Science & Technology.
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Oliver Baring (London, UK)
Oliver Baring, Chairman of Mwana Africa plc, is formerly a managing director of
UBS in the Corporate Finance Division, having had responsibility for the Africa
and Mining divisions. Before the merger with SG Warburg, he was a partner of Rowe
& Pitman, having spent five years with the Anglo American/De Beers Group in the
US, UK and South Africa.
He is non-executive Chairman of Ridge Mining plc, non-executive Chairman of First
Africa Holdings Limited, a non-executive director of Merrill Lynch World Mining
Trust and of the Tiedemann Trust Company.
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Jerry Ellis (Melbourne, Australia)
Jerry Ellis has had a long and distinguished career in business, particularly in
the resources sector.
He is a former Chairman and Director of BHP Ltd and Chairman of the International
Copper Association. He also served at various times on the boards of Newcrest Mining,
Aurora Gold, the International Council on Metals and the Environment and the American
Mining Congress. He is also a former President of the Minerals Council of Australia
and former Chairman of the Australia-Japan Foundation and the Australian National
Occupational Health & Safety Commission.
Jerry is currently the Chancellor of Monash University and Chairman of Future Directions
International, Landcare Australia, Golf Australia and Earth Resources Development
Council.
Jerry is presently on the boards of a number of public listed companies.
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Ian Hume (Sydney, Australia)
Ian Hume was a Founding Partner of The Sentient Group. Throughout a distinguished
career, Ian has been a director of a London-based investment management group where
he gained experiences in Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa as well as
a partner of Bain & Co.
Prior to founding Sentient, Ian was an adviser to AMP Private Investments focusing
on international resources and telecommunications investments in North and South
America.
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Peter Klaus (Frankfurt, Germany)
Dr Peter Klaus started his career at KfW in 1972 as a Loan Officer for the iron and
steel industry, raw materials extraction and untied commercial loans sectors.
Throughout his career at KfW, Peter worked on export and project finance loans in
all industrial and service sectors across the globe. Peter was responsible for the
process, design and implementation of a newly formed subsidiary of KfW (KfW IPEX-Bank)
which will take over the export and project financing duties of KfW from January
2008.
In addition, as Managing Director, Peter was in charge of IT at KfW and the restructuring
of non-performing loans in general. It was from this position that he retired in
2007.
Peter gained a university degree as Economist and his Doctor of Political Sciences
from Erlangen University, Germany.
He is currently a Member of the Supervisory Boards of ThyssenKrupp Industries AG,
Lufthansa Technik AG and Frachtcontor Junge GmbH.
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