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Directorate Change

26th May 2011 12:14

RNS Number : 3539H
Polo Resources Limited
26 May 2011
 



26 May 2011

 

 

Polo Resources Limited

("Polo Resources", "Polo" or "the Company")

Directorate Change

 

 

Polo Resources Limited (AIM and TSX: POL) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Michael Burns to the Board, as Finance Director, which is effective immediately.

 

Mr. Burns is a fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. He is the founder and Senior Executive Director of Via Executive Limited, a specialist management consulting company and the Managing Director of Regent Mercantile Holdings Limited, a privately owned investment company.

 

For over twenty years Mr. Burns has specialised in corporate governance, risk management, accounting and administration for companies in a number of industry sectors and is currently a Non-Executive Director of Phaunos Timber Fund Limited, a US$700 million company listed on the London Stock Exchange, as well as several fund management companies engaged in the property, emerging markets and alternative energy sectors. He is licensed as a personal fiduciary by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

 

Previously Mr. Burns was an Executive Director at Anson Fund Management Limited and, prior to that, Group Managing Director of Investec Trust. He is the former Chairman of the Guernsey Association of Trustees and a current member of the Society of Trust and Estate Planners Guernsey committee.

 

Commenting on Ian's appointment, Neil L. Herbert, Executive Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Polo Resources, said: "We are pleased to be strengthening our Board with the appointment of Ian Burns. His years of experience in the finance sector will be of significant value to the Company as we continue to build on our existing success."

 

 

Additional Information

 

Save as set out below, there is no further details in relation to the above appointment which require disclosure under paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.

 

The Directorships and past Directorships of Mr. Burns, aged 51 are listed below:

 

 Directorships in the past five years:

 

Accelerated Global Growth Basket Limited

Anson Custody Limited

Anson Fund Managers Limited

Anson Group Limited

Anson Registrars Limited

Anson Administration (UK) Limited

BBD Minerals Limited

Continental Indemnity Limited

East Asian Growth Basket Limited

Enhanced Global Growth Basket Limited

Finistere Directors Limited

German Aktiv Co-op Limited

German Aktiv GP Limited

GFT Directors Limited

Glanmore Property Fund Limited

Global Investment Basket Limited, The

Granite Fund Management Limited

Guernsey Summer Holidays Limited

Hero Nominees Limited

Hinoba Holdings Limited

HVGPE Holdings Limited

Investec Administration Services Limited

Investec Gresham II Limited

Investec Recovery Partners I Limited

Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited

ITGL UK Nominees Limited

Mapex Minerals (BVI) Limited

Nordic Aktiv Co Op Limited

Nordic Aktiv GP 2 Limited

Nordic Aktiv GP Limited

Optimal Investment Growth Basket Limited

Osivis Private Capital Limited

Property Acquisition & Management Limited

Property Joint Ventures Limited

Radicle Investment Management Limited

Regent Brazil Holdings Limited

Select Industries Management Co Limited

Synergy Perth Trustee Limited

The Matterley 130/30 Investment Company Limited

The Matterley Enhanced Alpha Investment Company Limited

 

 

 Current Directorships:

 

Azincourt Resources Inc.

Clearlake Resources Limited

Copper Ex Corporation

Darwin Property Investment Management (Guernsey)

Ferrous Africa Limited

Ferrous Benin Limited

Ferrum Resources Limited

Ferrum Mauritania Limited

Global Nickel Corporation

Global Tin Corporation

GTin San Lourenco Holdings Limited

GTin Edem Holdings Limited

Gtin Brazil Holdings Limited

 

Guernsey Citizens Advice Bureau LBG

 

H-Gold Corporation

 

Indo Phoenix Coal Limited

 

Kilo Gold Corporation

 

Laurite Limited

 

Milroy Capital Limited

 

Minex Consultants Limited

 

Minfer Holdings Limited

 

Phaunos Timber Fund Limited

 

Premier Asset Management (Guernsey) Limited

 

REE International Inc.

 

Regent Mercantile Bancorp Inc.

 

Regent Mercantile Holdings Limited

 

 Regent Mercantile Trustcorp (Pvt) Limited

 

Signet Petroleum Limited

 

Smoke Rise Holdings Limited

 

Tanziron Resources Limited

 

Via Executive Limited

 

Hex Resources Limited

 

Hex Mauritania Limited

 

T-Gold Resources Limited

 

 

 

Contacts:

 

Polo Resources Limited

Neil L. Herbert

Executive Co-Chairman

+ 27 82 404 36 37

 

Canaccord Genuity Limited

Andrew Chubb / Bhavesh Patel

+ 44 (0) 20 7050 6500

 

Toronto

James McVicar

Heenan Blaikie LLP

+1 416 643 6903

 

Blythe Weigh Communications

Tim Blythe

Ana Ribeiro

Matthew Neal

+44 (0) 20 7 138 3204

 

 

About the Company

Polo Resources is a natural resources investment company focused on investing in undervalued companies and projects with strong fundamentals and attractive growth prospects. The Company will primarily invest in companies with producing assets and/or resources and reserves that have been verified under internationally recognised reporting standards. For complete details on Polo Resources: www.poloresources.com.

 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT

The AIM Market of London Stock Exchange plc does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, statements regarding potential values, the future plans and objectives of Polo Resources Limited. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, achievable or recognizable in the near term.

 

Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. Polo Resources Limited assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's estimates or opinions change.

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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