Len Dean

Mr Len Dean was appointed as non-executive Chairman of the Company on 30 August 2010. From 2003 to 2006, Mr Dean was Managing Director of Sesa Goa Limited, a specialist pig iron producer and India’s largest private sector iron ore company. During this time Sesa Goa produced approximately 9.5 Mt of iron ore, 280,000 tonnes of coke and 245,000 tonnes of high quality pig iron per annum. More recently, Mr Dean has been an iron ore consultant with a wide client base including Orinoco Iron (Venezuela), Mitsui Iron Ore Development, CVRD (Brazil) and Mineral Enterprises Limited (India) and a Strategic Marketing Consultant for Orinoco Iron, Thiess, One Steel, BHP Minerals and Portman Mining.