Mr Kroepelien has a wealth of successful experience throughout West Africa, particularly in Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. For the past 30 years he has been active in the private sector, promoting mineral resource projects in West Africa. In 1986 Mr Kroepelien was appointed CEO and Managing Director of Kenor ASA (which subsequently changed its name to Guinor), a Norwegian emerging junior explorer. Guinor acquired the Dinguiraye exploration permits in Guinea (Conakry) initially with a 17.6% indirect participation. Under Mr Kroepelien’s management, Guinor listed as the first gold explorer on the Oslo Exchange (OSX) in 1994. It subsequently, built a resource and a reserve inventory to JORC standards and eventually inaugurated the first industrial gold mine in Guinea in 1996 (Société Minière de Dinguiraye – SMD).
