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| | | Guido "Guy" Edward M. Pas
Position: Director
Guido ('Guy') Pas is a Belgian financier based in Geneva with 35 yrs of experience in finance, mining and exploration. He was a V.P. of Chase Manhattan Bank (Belgium; France and Switzerland) in structured and commodity finance, from 1973 to 1983. He has been involved in numerous start-up and early-stage resource ventures, including: in 1987 as co-founder of The Addax & Oryx Group Ltd., an integrated African oil group, (its upstream Addax Petroleum now listed (APC;TSX)) and in 2004, Afren Plc, a West African oil & gas company (AFR;AIM). In 1989, as director of Addax & Oryx he co-founded and was the chairman of Samax Resources Ltd, which enjoyed two major gold mine discoveries in Tanzania; Golden Pride now owned and operated by Resolute, and a part of the Geita Gold Mine now owned and operated by AngloGold Ashanti. Samax was acquired by Ashanti in 1998 for US$137M. In 1994 he founded what became Mano River Resources Inc. (MANA;AIM/MNO;TSXV) which discovered the 'New Liberty Gold' deposit in Liberia (1.4M ounces). He co-founded GAIA Resources Fund in 2004.
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