Group Managem is a leading Moroccan mining company focusing on the extraction of base and precious metals in Morocco and further throughout African region. Managem’s footprint in Sudan is represented by Manub - the subsidiary company (joint venture between Managem Group and Chinese mining conglomerate Wanbao) operating Block 15, Block 24 and Block 9 gold mining and exploration projects in Wadi Gabgaba area (River Nile state). Duties and Responsibilities: • Development and maintenance of resource models (orogenic type of Au mineralization) for the Company's Block 15 project using Leapfrog Geo and Studio RM software packages; • Ensuring adherence to the Company’s geological data collection protocols; • Ensuring regular update and audit of the project’s geological databases; • Provision of support in design of resource development drilling programs (infill and near-mine exploration) to facilitate mineral resource categories upgrade; • Provision of assistance to third-party consultancies and independent Qualified Persons in the timely audit of in-house mineral resource estimates and carrying out NI 43-101 Technical Reports, Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Studies; • Provision of assistance to the mine geology team with development of grade control models for short-term production planning; • Training junior geological personnel in geological data management, QA-QC analysis and resource modeling. Achievements: • Implemented more advanced practices of geological settlings modeling using assay, lithological, secondary alteration and structural measurements data to replace conventional “grade shells” modeling approach. • Completed update of resource model of Zone WG03 for feasibility study development – the flagship deposit of Block 15 project.

acQuire Technology Solutions is the world leading provider of holistic data management solutions for the natural resources sector. The Company’s product line is represented by GIM Suite - the industry leading geological data management solution for both exploration and mining operations, and EnviroSys - quality and compliance-focused platform for management of environmentally-related data. Duties and Responsibilities: • Maintenance and development of relationships with existing customer base within mining segment in EMEA region; • Expansion of the Company’s technology footprint by adding value to its customers; • Identification of sales opportunities and sales strategy development; • Contract negotiations and pipeline management, through to negotiating and closing sales. Achievements: • Engaged few customers within EMEA region to upgrade to the latest version of GIM Suite solution including generation of new licenses sale leads.

Navoi MMC is the largest Uzbek company involved in the mining industry and one of the top ten largest uranium and gold producers in the world. The company operates 14 gold mines, 7 uranium ISL sites, and 5 hydrometallurgical plants located in Navoi, Samarqand and Jizzakh regions of Uzbekistan. Duties and Responsibilities: • Provision of geological expertise to the process of transformation of the Company´s gold mining division towards open joint stock company with subsequent IPO, in particular to the implementation of international public reporting standards for mineral resources and ore reserves (JORC Code); • Development and maintenance of resource models for the Company´s operations and development projects using Leapfrog Geo/Edge and Micromine software packages; • Ensuring regular update and maintenance of the Company’s geological database using Geobank DM solution; • Liaising with mining department to ensure seamless resource models handover for optimization and mine planning; • Provision of support in resource development drilling programs design (infill and near mine exploration); • Provision of assistance to the senior technical management team in strategic business plans and mining projects pipeline development; • Training local staff on best practices in resource modeling and resource estimation. Achievements: • Acting like a project manager completed digitization and audit of geological databases of 22 largest mines/deposits, which account for approximately 85% of the entire gold resource base of the Company; • Together with the exploration team developed and implemented sampling QA-QC protocols as per best industry practices to assure the accuracy of obtained exploration data and to increase reliability of resource estimates; • Took part in the development of the concept of restructuring the geological service of the Company. In particular I participated in the creation of the department of resource geology aiming to improve mineral resource management function and to streamline mine planning process.

IFG Capital is a multi-asset investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, specializing both in principal investments, and lending at various levels of capital structure on a risk-adjusted basis. One of the main focuses of the company is investing into mining and metals industry of the Central Asia region, which is undertaken through its subsidiary IFG Metals & Mining. Duties and Responsibilities: • Advising the company's management on all geology related matters; • Identification of drilling stage exploration and brownfield mining projects potentially attractive for acquisition; • Due diligence review of historical GKZ exploration results and resource estimates reports in terms of international public reporting requirements compliance (JORC Code); • Design of exploration programs and control over their execution to facilitate acquired projects development; • Supervision and management of contracting organizations involved into projects development (engineering and consulting companies, drilling and surveying contractors, analytical labs, etc.); • Provision of geological input into technical studies (Scoping and Pre-Feasibility level); • Ensuring liaising with state permitting and licensing authorities. Achievements: • Identified few mining projects and exploration prospects potentially attractive for financial investments. One of the projects - tungsten brownfield (scheelite, magnesium skarn hosted type of W mineralization) in Samarkand region, Uzbekistan, went into PFS stage. The study was finalized in December 2018 with positive results. • Designed and supervised exploration drilling program for above-mentioned tungsten project. The first and stage of drilling were successfully completed in September 2018. The second stage was commenced in February 2019.

Cunico Resources N.V. was a Netherlands headquartered mining and metallurgical company, which specialized at manufacturing ferronickel alloys. The Company owned two pyrometallurgical plants in Republic of Kosovo and Northern Macedonia, and five open-pit Ni-Co and Fe-Ni operations in Guatemala, Kosovo and Macedonia. Duties and Responsibilities: • Supervision and management of team of geologists and geological technicians, and contracting personnel; • Planning near mine exploration programs and control over their execution; • Ensuring adherence to existing geological data collection protocols to support resource modelling and estimation; • Resource modeling and estimation using Leapfrog Geo software package to support mine planning activities; • Assisting engineering team with preparation of short and long-term mine plans using Deswik Open Pit suite; • Control over stockpile management and QA-QC procedures throughout ore logistic chains “from mine to seaport” and “from mine to smelter”; • Managing budgets of the geological department; • Ensuring health and safety principles and procedures in mining areas. Achievements: • Improved grade control procedures at Mayaniquel and Guaxilan mines in Guatemala, which enabled to ensure better ore selectivity and to reduce material re-handling cost at mines’ stockpile yards; • Together with mine engineering team implemented new grade control, ore stockpiling and ore dispatching strategies at Glavica mine in Kosovo, which enabled to improve consistency of smelter´s feed and stabilize smelting cost withing the range required to keep production economical; • Finalized exploration and resource estimation projects done for Quirigua tenement of Guaxilan mine in Guatemala.

ABB’s Enterprise Software Group (former Mincom, currently Datamine) is one of the world leading providers of enterprise software and related services that focuses predominantly on high cost and asset intensive industries. The Company´s portfolio consist of software solutions for asset management, mine planning, logistics, mineral processing, mobile workforce, equipment reliability, production accounting, business intelligence, etc. Duties and Responsibilities: • Provision of consulting services in geological modeling, geological data management and mine planning; • Mine planning, geological modeling, geological data management and LIMS (laboratory information management systems) solutions implementation including: customers’ requirements study and business solution design development, systems setup (functionality and reporting settings, creation of user interfaces), delivering functionality customizations, creation and administration of databases, training and mentoring of customers’ personnel, introduction of the solutions’ best practices, ensuring completion of projects on-time and on-budget; • Provision of customer technical support within EMEA and CIS regions; • Pre-release software testing; • Solutions improvement; • Project management; • Pre-sales consulting including: preparation of presentation materials, demo projects and case studies, conducting presentations and product demonstrations, preparation of proposals. Achievements: • Using MineScape software created number of resource models for number of large- and mid-scale mining companies in South Africa, Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland and India, which assumed working with such commodities as nickel (sulphide Cu-Ni type of deposits), copper (Cu-sulphide polymetallic and sandstone-hosted stratacontrolled deposits), coal (hard, bituminous and brown coal deposits), phosphates (apatite-nepheline deposits) and potassium (K-Mg salts deposits); • Upgraded MineScape geological database from Oracle 9 to Oracle 11g for one of the major thermal coal producers in South Africa; • Developed customized MineScape geological databases for several OP and UG mines owned by the largest phosphates producer in Russia; • Upgraded CCLAS based solution to the latest version and developed new lab instruments’ interface scripts for one of the major platinum and PGM producers in South Africa; • Acting like product owner successfully delivered number custom mine planning and geological modules to MineScape customers in South Africa and Russia; • Successfully delivered number of presentations of MineScape and CCLAS products to prospective customers in South Africa, Russia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Norway, India and Poland.

System Group Ltd is one of the largest system integrators in CIS region which focuses on development and integration of solutions for production management, banking, transport management and logistic processes, warehousing, distribution and retail sales automation, etc. Former partner of Mincom Pty Ltd (now part of Datamine) in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Duties and Responsibilities: • Provision of consulting services in geological modeling, geological data management and mine planning; • Mine planning, geological modeling and geological data management solutions implementation including: customers’ requirements study and business solution design development, systems setup, creation and administration of geological databases, training and mentoring of customers’ personnel, introduction of the solutions’ best practices; • Provision of customer technical support within CIS region; • Solutions improvement; • Project management. Achievements: • Built a resource model (Cu-sulphide polymetallic type of mineralization) and developed long- and short-term mine planning templates for the first MineScape software customer in Kazakhstan – large-scale UG mine owned by one of the biggest copper producers both in the country and in the region; • For the same customer developed procedures for update of resource model’s subsets with grade control data for short-term mine planning purposes and QA-QC procedures used for inputting data into geological database; • Developed standard geological modeling and mine planning procedures for further software deployment at other customer’s mines.

Donbass-Azov was a privately-owned engineering design and survey bureau that specialized at delivering geological exploration, geotechnical/hydrogeological and environmental engineering services focusing mostly on coal mining, coal processing and thermal power generating industries. Till 2007 part of DTEK Group. Duties and Responsibilities: • Field reconnaissance and seams outcrops mapping; • Exploration drilling works planning to support short and long-term mine plans development; • Drill rigs supervisions, core and wireline logging, downhole survey works management; • Management of entire sampling process from core cutting to dispatching samples batches to the analytical lab ensuring compliance with QA/QC protocols; • Geological data interpretation, compilation of geological maps and sections, and exploration reports writing; • Ensuring liaising with licensing and governmental legislative authorities; • Ensuring health and safety procedures while executing field works. Achievements: • Successfully accomplished number of follow-up geological exploration and in-fill drilling projects designed for various thermal coal mining operators in Donetsk Region, Ukraine; • Directly supervised and successfully finalized few drilling and geotechnical samples collections programs to facilitate evaluation of stability of coal processing plant´s wash tailings dams.

SPA “Ukrcoalgeology” used to be a state-owned research institute under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine whose primary goal was delivering range of various engineering and scientific research services to coal mining and coal processing industries of Ukraine and CIS countries. Duties & responsibilities: • Exploration drilling; • Methane drainage drilling. Achievements: • Received my basic apprenticeship in diamond core and roller-bit drilling. That included drilling of slant drainage wells and exploration holes with depths of more than 1000 meters.

Faculty of Extension, Applied Geostatistics (Citation Program)

Faculty of Mining Geology, Geology

University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa

acQuire Technology Solutions. Johannesburg, South Africa

Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). On-line course

Seequent Russia & CIS. Moscow, Russia

Deswik Europe. Amersham, UK

ARANZ Geo Europe. Chesham, UK

ABB Enterprise Software. Modderfontein, South Africa

Geovariances. Avon, France

Mincom Ltd Russia and CIS. Moscow, Russia

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Recourses of Ukraine. Ukraine, Donetsk