George graduated with a law degree from the London School of Economics and then trained as a Chartered Accountant. He became a Partner in the London office of Deloitte Haskins & Sells before moving to Moscow where he was a Partner in Coopers & Lybrand and later in Deloitte & Touche. More recently, he has worked in Kazakhstan as Chief Operating Officer of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund, a US government sponsored development fund.
George is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Chris Thomas
Non-executive Director
Chris has been a non-executive director of Hambledon Mining Company since its formation in 1997, and subsequently of Hambledon Mining plc since the reorganization. He has had a successful career in the advertising industry, having been a Director of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Managing Director of Ammirati Puris Lintas and Managing Director of Lowe Lintas. In 2002 he became CEO of Proximity London, one of the largest integrated communications companies in the UK. In 2006 Chris took on the role of Chairman and CEO of BBDO and Proximity in Asia. He is married with four children and is based in Singapore.
Chris is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Nicholas Bridgen
Chief Executive
Nicholas trained in London with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) as a Chartered Accountant and then spent 14 years with Rio Tinto plc group accounting, business evaluation and group planning. Since then, he has spent 13 years in companies operating in the FSU. In 1997 he formed Hambledon Mining Company (the forerunner of Hambledon Mining plc.). He lives in Kazakhstan with his family and speaks Russian.
Neil Stevenson
Technical Director
Neil is a mining
engineer with a post graduate diploma in business
administration from the University of Queensland . He
has more than 25 years of experience of both underground
and open pit operations in Australia, Africa, the FSU
and Kazakhstan. He lives in Ust-Kamenogorsk with his
family. Neil is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute
of Mining and Metallurgy.
Baurzhan Yerkeev
Executive Director
Baurzhan has a degree from the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Geological Faculty (Russia). He is an experienced exploration geologist, with extensive knowledge of Kazakhstan, the CIS and Altai Region (where Sekisovskoye is located). He has managed projects for the State Geophysical-Geochemical Expedition and the State Exploration Expedition. More recently, he has been a director of CRS, the Company's geological consultants. Baurzhan is experienced in working with the various State bodies responsible for approving the Company's development plans and has worked with many western and local companies. He has received specialist training in the UK from Datamine International and is a qualified Datamine trainer.
Other Management
Myrzaly Tilyayev
Director of Government Relations Hambledon-Mining Company Limited
Myrzaly has a diploma in Engineering from the Kazakh Chemical-Technological University . For 22 years he worked in the Pre-Caspian Mining and Metallurgical Kombinat, finally as its Director with a staff of some 48,000. He then became deputy director of Almaty Energy that comprised 17 separate enterprises with a total staff of 27,000 workers. He was also a department director in the Almaty regional municipal board.
William Morgan
CFO & Company Secretary
Bill is a UK Chartered Accountant with 30 years
accountancy and financial management experience. He has worked in the UK, Russia, the Far East, Africa and previously in Kazakhstan between 1994 and 1997. He has been instrumental in several successful start-ups and restructuring of companies, in the telecoms
and mining industries
