Board & Management

Mr. Castro joined the Corporation in April 2020 and was a PWC chartered accountant and a former SG Warburg, (now part of UBS), investment banker with more than 30 years’ City and industry experience. He was previously CFO at Eland Oil and Gas, an AIM listed upstream company operating in Nigeria, and CEO at Northland Capital Partners, a boutique investment bank and broker, where he represented a significant number of mining and oil & gas clients, including clients in South America. He has extensive experience in capital markets, finance raising and M&A. Louis is a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at several other AIM listed companies. Mr Castro speaks fluent Spanish.

Mr. George is a geoscientist by profession, with over 30 years’ experience in global mineral exploration, development and financing. In particular, Mr. George has a long history in South America, having managed, assessed, and financed projects and companies in a range of countries across the continent. Currently Brad is focused on managing gold and base metals exploration projects in West Africa, and therefore offers broad and specialized skills in mineral exploration across the developing world. In addition, Mr. George spent several years as a rated mining analyst in London, focusing on AIM listed miners and thus has a sound understanding of capital markets and financial management of exploration, feasibility and development programs. Mr. George is resident in Perth, Western Australia, is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, and is a JORC Competent Person for the reporting of mineral exploration results.

Joaquín commenced working for Orosur in May 2014. Joaquín earned his Master of Laws in International Business Law (LLM), from Queen Mary University of London and is also a Uruguayan-qualified lawyer (Universidad de la República). He has over 10 years of legal experience at recognized law firms in both Uruguay and London where he advised on commercial litigation, corporate governance, business law and contracts to international and local corporations from different industries, including energy and mining.

Mr. González is a CPA with extensive internal control, audit and accounting experience for small, medium and large companies and highly regulated organizations. He has over 15 years’ international experience in public accounting firms, including 5 years as Audit Partner for Deloitte -Venezuela.

Jerónimo is an Argentinian geologist, having graduated from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, He has over 12 years of experience in mineral exploration, development and production of open pit and underground mines; and has worked in a variety of geological terranes and locations, including SEDEX, VMS, epithermal and Paleoproterozoic orogenic gold deposits in Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia. Jerónimo began working with Orosur since 2013 managing the geology department, responsible for the production in the San Gregorio mine and the exploration programs in projects from grassroots to advance exploration.

Ernesto is a Senior Geologist with over 10 years of Latin American experience. During his career, Ernesto has worked in different companies, with his experience ranging from grassroots regional exploration, to project generation and resource definition. He has worked in Greenstone belts, epithermal terranes, SEDEX and evaporite deposit types. Ernesto has a degree in Geology from the National University of Tucumán and international postgraduate in geostatistics applied to the estimation and evaluation of ore deposits.